Don’t get me wrong, there are problems with it, both in the process that modern AI uses as well as the sources that it draws from, however, as of right now ai is just a tool like auto-tune or photoshop.

Even though it will change the media formats that it is attached to, it will not supplant them within the next 5 to 10 years, it will simply transform them.

    • @[email protected]English
      10•3 months ago

      I agree with you almost 100% (except the copyright stuff), but,

      The biggest source of resistance is people fearing for their jobs. That said, a lot of them have never actually tried AI, so they don’t know the limitations and why I doubt serious businesses will replace any serious creative work for years to come

      …the business owners are just as ignorant. They are trying to replace people with AI, which will disrupt our lives while the CEOs refuse to admit their error and force us all to deal with it anyway. It’s a lot like outsourcing. It’s not as cheap and effective as businesses hoped, customers largely hate it, and we’re still doing it anyway.

      AI will be disruptive, but over the long term it will settle down to a small disruption. But the journey to get there might suck a bit.

      • ScrubblesEnglish
        3•3 months ago

        But wev hit the part of the cycle where businesses who were stupid enough to believe it have already laid people off, and now we see them quietly starting to rehire. Seems like they still needed real people after all.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•3 months ago

      I agree with this take.

      AI will definitely make some white collar jobs way more productive, and thus change the nature of that work and reduce the number of people employed in those jobs.

      A good example is translation, where translators are now mostly reviewing translated texts instead of translating from scratch.

      This means the ability to read fast and take on the role of editor is what remains important in the remaining jobs for translators.