Because I’m seeing more and more each day people once considered experts now on the same level as an untrained person who knows how to type. And I’m really hoping LLMs reach a tipping point because otherwise, you’re just adding another nauseating element to the rat race.
I’m no stranger to the “adapt or get left behind” comments, and it’s very funny when people tell me this but can no longer tell me how a for loop works or what constitutes an outer join.
lol hate to say it but this shithole needs to humbled by an act of war that brings down the power grid, capitalist realism is quickly turning into economic and technological realism (if it hasn’t already).
Most of LLM/image generators are overhyped, but imo there is enough of a use case and a value case (if you want to cut down on paying people) that they will significantly erode the power of labor once more companies understand how to actually use them besides typing prompts into websites
Voice acting will become even more dire of an industry than it already is with voice to voice AI filters making it so a studio only needs to pay 1-2 voice actors to voice a cast of dozens
Art teams will be halved or decimated once more legal teams give the go-ahead for using image generator finetunes to make specific use generators that pump out their exact desired style with only minor manual touch-ups needed. The outcomes would be borderline indistinguishable from their usual art, but now they have to pay much less people for the same work.
Artist contractors will similarly be racing to the bottom against the bottom threshold of ‘literally free’ (they already are atm really)
Data entry jobs will be eroded.
Translation work will be heavily eroded.
Lower level modeling and filming jobs will be heavily eroded.
Higher level programming work will still be in high demand but entry level stuff will be under valued and hard to find.
All of that pushes more people into other fields looking for work, and thus erodes the labor power of those as well. Things get shittier and we get a lot of ugly things to look at.
For voice acting, look back to cartoons of the 50s and 60s where there were only 1-2 people doing all the voices for a cartoon. The same actors were re-used everywhere.
The only reason there is a 1:1 character to actor relationship now is marketing - cartoons are now big movie money makers and producers think that hiring big names will sell more tickets. If instead the stars are chatgpt, I don’t think this will sell the tickets and it won’t work the way they think it will.