I just want to make funny Pictures.
It’s not giving them elsewhere.
There is not and will not be an abundance of prompt “engineering” jobs, it’s not creating new industries, and it’s not significantly lowering the bar for people to start their own businesses is existing industries.
What it is doing is data-mining on a scale never seen before, and increasing profit margins for megacorp business owners.
AI is a huge growing industry with a lot of jobs. Now instead of some corporate slop “artist” it’s some corporate AI “prompt artist” doing work (albeit behind the scenes). That’s just how it goes. And I’m sure some jobs die off but that has always just been how it is, not as many jobs in coal mining either as there used to be.
As someone who is part of the problem (working on creating AI products, too scared to quit in protest) I can promise you that is not how it works. That is a frighteningly naive and short sighted view of the repercussions.
Coal mining was bad, and using coal was bad.
We found a replacement for it, which is good. some people were affected, which is bad. But replacing coal had a minimal impact on the overall job market and was a huge benefit to society.
AI is taking away safe skilled jobs from people who love them. It’s affecting many industries, and will affect many many more if you can actually believe the promises of the LLM providers.
First it’s affecting the fine arts. Beginner illustrators, authors, etc, can’t compete, so they leave the industry. After all the old hands die out, there is nobody left to replace them.
Then it’s affecting technical industries; software development, hardware design. Same thing, eventually nobody will be left.
Finances and accounting, of course
Then medicine. And there is a knock-on effect here where areas that AI cant do are also affected because the industry as a whole is on the decline so nobody bothers to even apply - you usually start school as a generalist and specialize later.\
And the new “prompt artist” jobs being offered are orders of magnitude fewer and less gratifying.
If what you said was true, then there wouldn’t be any benefit to corporations, and they wouldn’t be investing billions into it.
All this would be ok if the fruits of this new advancement went back into society, to help people, especially those who were displaced. But it doesn’t. It goes straight into the pockets of business owners and shareholders in the form of increased margins and stock buybacks.
You’re literally arguing that we should just let big business interests walk all over the job market because that’s “just how it is”.
