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lughnasadh OP t1_ixdrog7 wrote

Submission Statement

One of the ironies of the debate around AI/robots replacing human labor is that people used to think it was unskilled labor that would go first. Instead, western countries are awash with unskilled minimum wage positions that are going unfilled, and it's the skilled high paid jobs that look more under threat.

This is just another indication that Generative AI is on the cusp of rapidly eating up creative work. Digital artists and illustrators must feel especially under threat by the likes of Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. There will of course be new jobs. AR/VR is around the corner and some people will make money off operating and selling services from Generative AI.

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Arpeggioey t1_ixe1d27 wrote

We used to walk, now we use planes and cars, but we still walk, too ;p

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Black_RL t1_ixfmb6k wrote

It’s more expensive and difficult to build a fully working humanoid, but they will come too.

You have several companies working on them, Boston Dynamics, Agility Robotics, Xiaomi, Tesla, etc.

But yeah, for now the “higher” jobs are the ones being replaced first.

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rixtil41 t1_ixg7uxn wrote

But the cycle of new job's wont last forever it's just easy to say that now. I always disagreed with this.

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billybobpower t1_ixh369z wrote

Not a single company will hire a digital artist anymore. Dark times are coming for a lot of designers. Even stock photo sellers gonna go bankrupt when you are able to generate anything in seconds( if you don't mind models with 6 fingers or three hands)

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Tidezen t1_ixikd8e wrote

Yup, soon we'll get AI web design, too, there's already preliminary tools for that. And AI can write decent-sounding articles; it's only going to get better at that.

What's it going to look like when the majority of the content on the internet is actually created by AI? It's not that humans will stop producing content altogether, but that AI can produce more content by tenfold or more. And we've already got bots steering conversations on social media.

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