I Lost My Job Because of AI

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[@Nadestraight]

Hey! I think I've replied to over 2500 comments or something on this video, but there are so many more! Just wanted to say thank you for 500k views and counting on this! I never thought I'd get 100,000 nevermind 5x that, and who knows, one day maybe this even hits 1 Million! ❤

[@braiesteanu]

the joke reaction is usually to start a channel around the topic that brought you the popularity lol, but that'd be a doomer'ish topic to talk about, hope the best in your career!

[@nocappin1]

@@braiesteanu i feel like this guy can be the new leafy is here

[@nocappin1]

can your next video be 'I lost my girlfriend' then tell us a story about how you lost a girlfrined then the video after that 'i lost my ***** such and such' then keep doing that

[@Verkievrke]

wow it was at 4.3k when i first watched! algorithm heard u🤖

[@alb.88]

Algorithm heard you mention KZbin in the video bro. It looks like everyone got the video at the same time. My recommendation would be to use graphic design to make solid edited videos or even put yourself out there as an editor for other KZbinrs. Best of luck man

[@_Bakamunati]

Companies when they generate your work with ai: 😀😀😀 Companies when you use ai to generate your resume: 😠😡🤬

[@darktheloser]

Okay, this made me laugh. But true

[@PurpleAmalgam]

ai resumes suck anyways, lol... for now...

[@stefanorigato]

It's so cool that you can train an AI to do upper management that works better than people, than doing AI that replaces actual works and you can still spot them being AI

[@defskape0068]

Need more emphasis on “YOUR”. What they did to this guy is absolutely scummy. This should be illegal!!

[@michaelzephyros7725]

facts

[@timoth4529]

it is one thing to be replaced by Ai, but its one insane petty shot to be replaced by AI trained on your own work. This is well, Diabolical.

[@Nadestraight]

Just as Billy Butcher would say, absolutely diabolical

[@cheemsdrip7478]

You should try to sue them that’s literally plagiarism bro

[@whwhwhhwhhhwhdldkjdsnsjsks6544]

⁠@@cheemsdrip7478 they likely have the full rights to anything he made for them, I very much doubt it could be considered plagiarism

[@wormybobcat3706]

@@whwhwhhwhhhwhdldkjdsnsjsks6544yes, but what if the ai trained on things that he didn’t make for them? I think there was something about the ai being able to copy any website based on the url you put in.

[@EMan-xj5cz]

@@wormybobcat3706realistically there’s no way to really tell what items in specific it’s been trained on

[@yorkipudd1728]

Half way through my daughters Art degree, AI became mainstream. She pondered, and bought a tattoo machine.

[@bruisedviolets]

she’s doing an art degree which you’d hope be ok… but now sadly not..

[@lord6074]

Honestly tattooing makes a lot of money, she made the right choice

[@wombatjack3995]

⁠@@lord6074tattoos are becoming less popular as traditional Christians values are on the rise, not to mention the clientele will increasingly grow in degeneracy. I’ve had many family and friends that tattoo and they never seem to make enough to keep up with a drug addiction that inevitably comes to light.

[@fuser0410]

@@lord6074 until tatoo macnhines with IA appears

[@welcometodmitrysworld]

@@fuser0410a tattoo machine is just a pen.

[@MatthewCleere]

AI is FAR worse than a job killer; it is a career killer.

[@OlaftheGreat]

The fact that it was trained on YOUR MATERIAL is downright despicable

[@marlon6598]

Is it even legal?

[@Mrhellslayerz]

​​​​@@marlon6598It shouldn't be. But tech bros seem to think that because cars replaced horses, that means there shouldn't be laws to hold drunk drivers accountable, or that cab drivers don't exist.

[@chainermike]

​@@Mrhellslayerzwith disingenuous strawmen like this it's no surprise people don't sympathize with the luddites.

[@wadimek116]

​@@marlon6598Probably fully legal, he gave rights for his art when working at company Im pretty sure

[@Mrhellslayerz]

@@chainermike Not really a strawman when tech bros keep screaming that regulations don't work, so we shouldn't even try to make laws for AI in the first place. If you wanna be the exception to that rule though, I'm all for it.

[@hunterlorvods1955]

the fact u were a valued employee is what makes it scarier

[@rawallon]

That comes with the territory of working in a marketing agency tho

[@khodges72]

No such thing, companies only value profit

[@cyanogen7582]

Money is all that matters to these companies at the end of the day.

[@calamity1189]

money and reputation are all they care about.

[@hunterlorvods1955]

@@cyanogen7582 nah thats def true we just saw it first hand on this video

[@adawg3032]

I’m sorry man. I lost my job of 6 years in August, and my wife passed away a week later. Probably from stress her heart just stopped she fell in the kitchen and died. Losing my home in September. All we can do is stay positive and adapt to our situations as they present themselves.

[@dougdoug9223]

I'm sorry to hear this

[@replica5230]

I'm just a stranger from internet, but sorry for your loss, friend!

[@kotor2ownerofall]

stay strong my man, it will get better

[@SholerTV]

Man, that is rough 😕 stay strong.

[@nobullshitreviews3287]

Omg... Problems pale in comparison to what you are experiencing. I cant even comprehend this. I hope life gets better for you soon

[@nTrylo]

I'm a lead graphic designer going into year 5 with my company. Utilizing AI to do our jobs isn't as simple as plug our work in. They can upload work and then try to hamfist the fonts and logos in but it still doesn't come close to good human work. Your marketing company is funning a failing business the day they fired you. They honestly did you a favor because at the end of the day you don't want to work for such moronic leadership who doesn't understand the value of human design. AI simply can't ideate and innovate graphic design work. It can only regurgitate what has come before. Even 6-18 months from now AI still won't replace the industry because they can't solve the creativity problem - unique ideas are a premium in a world of generic AI bullshit.

[@brianp6859]

This is what I was thinking. I was thinking AI might be OK to rapidly prototype/get a general idea quickly but then I would take that and hand it off to a real artist to get a final version. Do you see this as a good use case for AI or what do you see AI being used for in this space effectively?

[@jlee479]

Yea you are right, in the next 6-18 months. In the next few years? This comment will age like milk. Basically tools will get so good specialised practices are only gonna need couple of designers when before they needed whole teams. Low level design work is already getting fully replaced and they will be gone completely soon.

[@Badjazy]

I see AI increasing incredibly every few months. Soon they will be better than human Graphic designers could ever be.

[@flonkplonk1649]

I'll never unterstand why some graphic artists downplay the impact of AI like "it's just a tool that can help us" etc. when it's absolutely clear that AI will completely replace the whole industry in no time!

[@miloinindo]

The idea that AI can't create new concepts, idea, art, etc. has been thoroughly debunked. They do not simply regurgitate. If you think that, you are years behind the curve.

[@seffaboy]

Ai bros will see this and say something like, "should have picked a less redundant field" like they weren't the ones to make it redundant

[@Nadestraight]

There's already tons of comments like that 😂😂

[@insertgoodchannelnamehere]

Course the ironic thing is that tech is one of the hardest hit fields in terms of ai replacement.

[@schizotakes]

nothing is redundant about art is a the wild thing art is chaos. yet they take art to

[@Skylancer727]

It's more the fields hardest to impact are the technical or the ones that require knowhow plus dexterity. Things like streamers and creators are easy to mimic, art follows very basic rules that seem abstract on the surface but are very defined, music is similar, etc. The most sustainable jobs are things like technicians who need troubleshooting understanding and be able to be utilized in different situations. This would also include things like construction, researchers, etc.

[@janisir4529]

​@@NadestraightThere is one job category that's always secure, and that's the one that develops technology that replaces humans. Should have known that since the industrial revolution.

[@sumbuddy4088]

Ah yes, unknowingly building your artificial replacement, my favorite manmade horror.

[@deluxeinflux]

Manmade horrors beyond OUR comprehension!!!

[@chillinc5158]

MANMADE HORRORS IN OUR UNDERSTANDING

[@Voidi-Void]

@@chillinc5158 I think manmade horrors are way worse when within our comprehension. Kinda hard to be horrified when you can't comprehend the horror, eh?

[@thebosley4103]

Coders the world round are doing this everyday, such a shame.

[@sofboiquiet]

lol the people doing this aren't replacing themselves, they know they're replacing us.

[@the100percentstraightguy]

here in Belgium... there's 2 jobs for graphical designers in the entire country... it's insane... I used to drown in work and I'm also getting fired... I'm a graphical design marketeer and well... my job is gone. they told me "IT'S NOT ABOUT THE QUALITY BUT THE QUANTITY"

[@giantjupiter]

"It's not about the quality but the quantity" And that's how dystopias born. Period.

[@blknmongl342]

Hearing AI Bros defend AI so vehemently is like seeing rats defend a cheese trap.

[@Volkbrecht]

It's not about defending it. AI is just a fact of life now, and the choice is to adapt or go under. At the latest in 3 to 5 years the AI boom will start affecting qualified blue collar labor, too, because all those smart people who used to sit at their desks all day will have turned around and started competing for that type of job. I'm already preparing for those fun times.

[@blknmongl342]

@@Volkbrecht Some people prefer not to bend over to machines taking away their source of income and if people didn't protest to pretty much any issue (especially if it's one that can personally affect their lives in drastic ways), corporations and governments could do whatever they please to the common people.

[@TheSpudHunter]

"But billionaires have our best interests in mind, AI will create a utopia where we all don't work and have universal income".

[@sorasabi]

hehe I remember when they said that 11,000 years ago for the agricultural revolution

[@selectionn]

@@sorasabi too true, personally I never recovered from the abandonment of the hunter gatherer life style

[@alface935]

True We will not have to work but We also wouldn't get any Money because all the Work is already done by Robots and A.I We will starve to death because We have no Money to buy Food

[@fear_the_smile961]

The ones that dont starve eat the dead and dying. Remember snow pierce. Remember that babies taste sweet according to the cap.

[@alface935]

@@fear_the_smile961 True and crime will go up too since people still need to eat food to survive and if You can't get Money to buy food fair and square then They will resort to crime to either get the Money to buy food or just steal the food directly

[@thebko7501]

As a young person this is very cool to have no future. :edit i never comment so thanks for the likes and the advice, its just sad when im trying to find my way in the world and creative jobs are being taken away that i might have gone into. i feel tho there will be a demand for real art so art isn't dead? time will tell.

[@Nadestraight]

AI will be the one giving you prompts by the time you're my age

[@proggz39]

Welcome to blue collar work buddy, grab a hard hat and safety vest

[@IstyManame]

@@Nadestraight my god that hits hard. I'm what you'd call a "generalist" around gamedev, so i work with texturing, modeling, level design and ui/ux, but mainly i get paid for programming. I wonder how much of what i do will become redundant in the coming years. Your story felt so real that i'm a bit afraid lol. But there's no way games will be generated entirely by an ai anywhere in the near future... right?

[@-RiSK-AK]

@@IstyManame making good games is hard, imo i dont think AI will make a complete game in the near future

[@wokekoala3888]

@@proggz39 this is definitely a portion of the reason I'm in the fire academy right now

[@knaif32]

AI really is scaring me. I knew a colleague in Amsterdam at a terrible paying restaurant job I quit a week ago, she was also a graphic designer and is now forced to work this job because she doesn't know Dutch. The fact that I witnessed it in real life goes to show its happening everywhere and it's just the start. I want to study 2D animation but to be honest i'm not so sure it's a good idea anymore.

[@zendesigner]

so learn dutch, it's not that difiicult

[@TyceeFaler]

Why tf would she go somewhere and not know the language beforehand? She isn't that bright if that's her situation

[@kutaygurlek]

I've been studying Translation Studies for the last 3 years now, I've practically lost my job before even having it.

[@ataudesconclase]

I work in the Translation industry and whats happening is disheartening...

[@chowderscrib]

@@ataudesconclase What’s happening in it?

[@celeridad6972]

​@@chowderscrib Low to mid level translation is a job that AI is increasingly good at, it wouldn't surprise me if in a couple years those jobs disappear shrinking the market to high level translation. Low level interpretation is going the same way and if AI gets good enough the only interpreters will be the ones in the UN/assisting presidents

[@TuriGamer]

Why exactly did you think that was a good idea? translation software has been a thing long before modern "Ai"

[@paegr]

The future is the opposite of what AI bros promised: You will do the mundane factory work so robots can create art and music

[@TheFlyingSailorYT]

Actually the future is you will have no work and no income and be left to rot while the elite who control the tech live like gods.

[@NRSIckiss001]

Automation is coming for that too. They already have robots in warehouses hauling things around without humans. They already have robots cleaning floors. They already have general purpose robots that can learn to assemble almost anything a human can and they're only getting better and cheaper. Companies like Palantir and Anduril are working around the clock to integrate AI and robotics into law enforcement and private security too, so soon they won't even need human cops and bodyguards. Once that happens, producing junk for sale won't be a priority, it'll be a scramble for raw material stockpiles, land, and energy production. Neo-feudalism, where the serfs are synthetic. Unless we do something now 99% of humans are going to go the way of draft horses and mules: steady population decline outside of niche scenarios where they're basically some billionaire's pet or minstrel. The rest will be left to starve or barely scrape by on welfare, with no meaningful way to interact with the markets that survive. Eventually that population trend will reverse, but only once AGI has figured out how to reliably build things like von Braun wheels, Stanford torus', O'Neil cylinders, possibly even McKendree habitats around the Sun. The surviving "Lords", being people like Elon Musk mixed in with dictators like Kim Jong Un, begin building their dozens of heirs private hermit kingdoms on their 16th, 18th, 22nd birthdays or whatever. Imagine North Korea, Turkmenistan, Qatar, Singapore, Eritrea, etc but in a vacuum where dissidents will never be able to leave. Imagine people like Russell M. Nelson or David Miscavige or Jeffrey Epstein getting their own private fief in outer space. Imagine they get to play with things like CRISPR along with AGI. Nightmare fuel.

[@selectionn]

nope, the factory work will be automated too (and already partially is). Really all that will be left is handyman kind of jobs, and the trades, since robots cant stroll into someones home and do specific work. at least not yet at least, but I think thats a pretty safe job, would require way too much effort to make a robot that can do that. basically its that one newer south park episode where the mexicans outside home depot now drive around rolls royces and no one knows how to fix anything

[@xenonguillou7105]

@@NRSIckiss001 Not gonna lie ... humain are cheaper for thos job... Minimum pay job still gonna be made by exploiting humain health

[@neru_d]

@@xenonguillou7105 Can absolutely agree. Not only that, how many facilities, factories are actually compatible with industrial robots? At my place question of automation seems like sci-fi. Last week- years and years after this factory was bought we got... out roof replaced! No more asbestos, yay. I mean you can kinda see how fast the progress is going. As far as I can see, factories in my city (from talking to peeps) have almost nothing changing. Also yeah, we earn less per year than one such robot could cost. Oh and you don't just stop at one robot. No no, you need a few, depending on a job. How about packing the product too? Who is going to ship-- yeah... Not so fast, we still gonna do the manual. Although no more dreams of being a full-time artist! yay!! progress.

[@rewindproductions7261]

Such a wonderful sign of a healthy economy when every industry is telling you "Do not go into our industry"

[@redschect3r]

I doubt it’s AI, but just the fact many companies over extended during covid era hiring. Now with inflation and high interest rates in many countries, a lot of these companies are scaling back. Even this case, the company likely couldn’t afford him anymore and are just getting by with an AI tool in the short term until they can hire someone cheaper than him.

[@balala4641]

with programming the only people saying not to go into the industry are doomers who don't understand how crappy ai generated code is

[@GiraffeVortex]

@@balala4641 yeah, just no names like THE HEAD OF NVIDIA!

[@TheRambler-pz1gx]

@@balala4641 Dude I know at least 6 FANG tech leads, managers all of which are already working with their boss on how to implement A.I. to cut the fat with in their teams. I am currently a SR dev, and I use A.I. everyday to automate as much as possible.

[@rewindproductions7261]

@@balala4641 Never mind how employers treat their programmers though and how it typically mandates an actually dangerous for your health work-life balance.

[@AlasdairMacCaluim]

I’m a professional translator and I think translation will soon go the same way as graphic design as Machine Translation improves.

[@FireJach]

That's 100% true

[@userre85]

No.

[@JuanAntonioGarciaHeredia]

​@@userre85Cope all you want

[@Shakenbake-in9ux]

Its already gone.

[@GTaichou]

Training an AI on your work without your permission to replace you should be illegal oh my gosh

[@hardboiledaleks9012]

You need to think about what you said properly.

[@Leonhart_93]

The work he was paid to do is the company's property.

[@pookienumnums]

that literally isnt what happened. i promise you. what actually happened is they fired him, and hired someone that can do what he does with page layout etc, but who also knows how to use ai. you cannot produce commerical marketing material solely with AI. it cannot place logos and blocks of text for you. you still need a grahpic designer, even with custom trained ai models. they probably fired him because they want to offer custom tailored graphics, i.e. photos or illustrations, to their clients. he was the only graphic design person doing email and web based marketing materials. he likely wasnt doing much, if any, illustration. running a business in 2024 that relies on google images, pintrest, or stock photo sites (many of which are overloaded with ai images anyway) puts you in at a much lower value to a client that wants tailored graphics. ive been using ai pretty heavily for 2 years, all different kinds. From disco diffusion to midjourney and dalle 2 and 3, and then running ai locally (on my own computer, no internet required) with stable diffusion through automatic 1111 (a web based ui (web based meaning in your browser, still local no internet) and then through comfyui which is a node graph style system that allows you to build various workflows that do all sorts of crazy shit, while also using ai (stable diffusion). in both still and animated stuff... and i can tell you, if they had 5+ years worth of his templates, they dont need to train a model on it. Even with the best ai models and techincally skilled users you would still need a graphic designer because AI simply cannot do page layout. it cannot place logos, pictures, or blocks of text where you want it to. and it cant write out those blocks of text as an image. either this guy is lying, was lied to, or just has no idea what actually happened other than he lost his job and ai was somehow involved. even if they trained a model on his stuff there would still need a graphic designer.

[@FireJach]

Exactly. Same with idk with data analysts. A better software can calcute and analyse the data faster than a dude in Excel which might also be cheaper ​@@pookienumnums

[@Leonhart_93]

@@KyleSpace Think about what you said, why would it be banned to train models for the company with the data that the company legally owns? They pay you money, they own your stuff. Unless there are special contracts where they don't own it.

[@clipsedrag13]

The irony is the companies you worked for will also be replaced by customers doing it with ai themselves

[@charlesd4572]

Spot on.

[@Leopardipzg]

And in the end, AI that starts improving itself, will replace whole of humanity. Fun times to be living in...

[@ghoulzi2127]

Nah it wont come to that, but i dont want ai to improve for sure. Its already invading a little too much in people's day to day life. ​@Leopardipzg

[@bobloblaw2857]

​@@ghoulzi2127it will come to that.

[@bluesoffthecharts]

You're right

[@TheGreenTaco999]

forget the economics of this, this is going to impact people's sense of meaning. We're just not ready and it's going to get bad

[@Nadestraight]

This is already happening, tons of people in these comments are talking about dropping out of their education or regretting the field of work they've chosen. I would not be surprised if things like depression rates skyrocket over the next 5 years.

[@anonamos225]

With the leisure to introspect, this is the least concerning consequence.

[@Eyclonus]

​@@Nadestraightnot skyrocket, its already climbing at a high rate globally due to various factors that all push alienation of the individual.

[@leonardodelpuertoburk2439]

I finished my Fine Arts degree last year. I knew getting in that it's a very hard career, but I had some hope. On my third year is when AI started to gain traction, and by the end of the fourth it was pretty much fully developed. It devastated me emotionally, I was (and still am) lost. I work as a salesman, and I dread thinking about the future because when I imagine myself doing this for the rest of my life my mind goes to very dark places that I'd rather not go back to. For so many of us, art gives meaning to life, and seeing AI just produce in a matter of seconds stunning work and seeing how amazed everybody is is tough to swallow. I still create for myself, but it feels pointless and meaningless, and it gets worse as every new gadget comes with AI, especially hard for me selling computers and seeing how every brand is hyper focused on implementing AI everywhere.

[@diemes5463]

I've never been impressed by 'Ai' art as it doesn't have the intentionality or the meaning that makes human art interesting, though I know I'm in the minority as even my local art museum has had exhibits on AI art. No one was really interested in it, there was no real story or motivation from the 'artist' they were just framed prints from a generator, a sad time. I hope you still continue to create art, there will always be a market on the high end, but I have no idea how to break into the 'art basel' crowd.

[@alexisboulerice-turcotte1295]

I want to see human art. We need that soul that unites us. We're at our best when we witness the greatness our kind can achieve.

[@JohnScigulinsky]

the saddest thing about the AI wave of bullshit that for some time, people will be losing jobs and livelihoods while AI will be making "art" while CEOs pat each other on the back for saving money on those useless artists... I honestly think the AI hype will die just like shitcoins did and just like NFTs did, but it seems like this tech-bro cycle of BS is getting more and more destructive with each spin.

[@juliuscaesar5270]

what you all don't understand is that art and design is not going to vanish for pleasure and art purposes if it is for humans, but in a business sense where its not important if a human is doing the work ai is just fine and will get 100000x better in the next years, so to all jobs in the design etc area as long as you work for business you out of work in the next 3 years latest. Btw for all other jobs as well analyst, consultant, factory worker etc all gone. I think thats good bc I want to go into entrepreneurship wich is one of the jobs that won't go. So please do a jobs where you selfemployed or wehre you work with humans like teacher etc. any other job is gone in the next 10 years trust me

[@GnosticAtheist]

I dont want to see human art. I dont like the soul that unites us. I am at my best when I witness the next specie growing, without the chains of biological evolution.

[@random.mandem]

This is the beginning of the curve. Soon there will be absolutely no way to tell if something is AI generated or not. Tbh I think that is already true. Creativity will thrive, but as a hobby. Creative jobs will still exist, but it will be the ideas jobs, not the artworking jobs. Those are done.

[@elvenadohostil8607]

I have this vision that in the not so far future, the value in art will come from seeing the artist create the art, instead of the art in itself.

[@TehObLiVioUs]

"what am i supposed to do?" ROB banks

[@TuriGamer]

idk retrain? Specialize in your field? Get a design job at a company that isnt so simple that current day AI can replace you? Ocean of options here

[@tantank]

@@TuriGamer Ocean of options... IF YOU HAVE MONEY, that is!

[@Shaarpest]

​@@TuriGamer there are lots of options for entry level and low skill jobs yes, but when you've been through college in a specific field and ai takes that field over night, there aren't that many options to go into another specialized job.

[@Tsutsunoh]

I can't wait for products to have "human made" stickers.

[@CD-vb9fi]

Everything is human made. No single thing "makes" a whole product. A pencil is wood from one human, graphite from another human, rubber from another human, and metal from another human. Then... a human takes all of these materials from different humans and makes it. Just because they use multiple machines in the process is irrelevant.

[@Afflictamine]

@@CD-vb9fi wow how insightful, you must be very intelligent !

[@MeWhenTheWhen.]

@@CD-vb9fi r/woosh that's the sound of the joke going *woosh* right over your smooth brain!

[@CD-vb9fi]

@@MeWhenTheWhen. I think you misunderstand. Part of the problem with society today is that they don't understand that... which is where these jokes come from... and then eventually people will keep "blaming machine" while they constantly keep forgetting... "A Human is still behind the machine" making the money and having control. So no... the joke did not go over my head... the problem is that it is going over all of yours! Which is why it can become a joke. I am looking at all of you voting and destroying yourselves.... while you complain and joke about it. And the moment anyone starts spitting any facts at you... you immediately become hostile to them... "like good little slaves to your corporate overlords that are doing this to you". You folks have a deep and firmly anchored case of Stockholm's Syndrome.

[@CD-vb9fi]

@@Afflictamine There is nothing special about me... other than I am not a "mindless zombie" like the rest of you attacking people on sight like good little lapdogs. You reap what you sow!

[@_ok3021]

Something i thought about the other day is that AI is not sustainable on the bigger scale of an economy Company fires worker -> replaces worker to save money -> worker is unemployed, so it doesn't earn money and thus loses ability to buy products -> companies see sales decline, which was caused by the initial AI savings Conclusion is, if no one has jobs, no one earns money, so no one is a potential client for your company's products

[@hyperdude144]

even before that, all of these companies firing poeple to give their jobs to AI are basically buying the processing power from only a couple of big, rich corporations, like Microsoft. This is just the honeymoon phase. When the corpo start enshitifying and tightening the screws their "savings" will go straight to Altman and co.

[@Motivatedlightmedia]

Rinse and repeat. Everything is made up of cycles. Even mankind.

[@laughingalex7563]

Roman empires economy being dependent on slave labor ran into that very problem, slaves had zero buying power, and rhe work they provided was of zero value. Lack of viable trade lead to a sharp decline in long term stability so the empire had to expand, and expand more, taking from new lands, to keep stable. Once it stopped expanding, it was doomed. So certainly ai work will have the same effect on the modern economy, itll collapse it.

[@NRSIckiss001]

You don't need to make junk to sell if you own enough land, mineral rights, and so on to be self-sufficient with a mechanized AGI-controlled workforce. Billionaires are already buying up farmland, forests, water rights, mine rights. All over the world. It's one of Saudi Arabia's primary diversification avenues as the royal family looks to a post-oil future. At that point you can just let the AI-less masses starve. Their money isn't needed.

[@R-SXX]

I think this as well, but believe me, it will only get worse until then.

[@CarlPapworth]

Also a Graphic Designer/UX-designer/UI-designer and I was just made redundant. For some reason I never thought of AI as a reason for terminating my employment (and the company never made any claims of such) but ofcours it makes me wonder. However I don't fear that the designer role will complete disappear; this might be an early faze where companies are lashing on to this new modern tool, but eventually they see that someone with a trained eye and the ability to evaluate a design is needed. However a lot of jobs that are related to pure production will probably go, so for sure there be less designers needed.

[@pookienumnums]

ai can only do so much. it cannot do all the 'non arty' parts of graphic design. OP was just replaced because his skillsets are obsolete and he didnt adapt in time. they dont need to train an ai on him they have 5 to 6 years of templates. templates are made to be reused, and are typically easy to modify. you dont need ai for that. op is high on copium.

[@Shaarpest]

Faze is an esports group, I think you meant phase

[@Soum.i]

I'm 19 and just swapped my major from Computer Science to small business / entrepreneurship. AI will take over every field complicated enough to warrant high pay. The only hope I can see for a somewhat long-term high earning position is a business owner. Everything will be automated within my lifespan.

[@AntonioII]

The only smart commentary here. You will have a great life ahead if you stick to this plan.

[@jorgandar]

including business ownership. AI will make better management/strategic decisions than humans.

[@Shakenbake-in9ux]

Lmao, if AI starts writing its own code, there are bigger issues for humanity than having jobs.

[@Sina-dv1eg]

This just is completely false. All the data seems to indicate that LLMs are reaching a plateau. GPT5 will be only marginally better than GPT4. And why should they continue advancing at the same rate? No technology has ever worked like that. Cars started improving, and people thought we were going to get flying cars soon. But we didn't, the technology plateaued. Look at smartphones, after the initial boom, there's no god damn difference between the iPhone 10 and the iPhone 11. Look at video game graphics. From the 90's to the 00's, the boom was insane. Now, there's barely any improvements between the 10' and the 20's. Technologies always plateau, and yet tech bros always think they'll keep improving exponentially. I'd consider researching more before throwing away my entire career to tech bro hype. Maybe there will be advanced AI in the future, but it won't be through improvements to the LLMs that exist today, it will have to be an entirely new technology that's nowhere near being developed

[@Shakenbake-in9ux]

@@Sina-dv1eg yeah, its always easy to say that something plateaued in hindsight.

[@Und3rcov3r]

As a 17-year old who really wants to study graphic design, this is incredibly demotivating

[@DomnulDarius]

Sorry bro we’re born in the wrong time

[@dalidali8631]

Try 3D design in engineering applications.

[@byeheaven]

literally the same

[@joelrobinson5457]

Keep moving forward, you'll find your way if you move when the time is right, just keep moving forward

[@Gaming_Legend2]

Tbh as someone who is studding graphic design in steroids do not take this career path, you need to be really creative and original otherwise you will only work agency jobs that will slowly be replaced by ai, all entry jobs are already scarse, you kinda have to be freelancer

[@kintustis]

For most people, once youve looked at ai-generated stuff for an hour or two, it becomes pretty easy to tell. The problem arises when the higher-ups are so tech illiterate and impervious to learning that they aren't able to notice the difference. But management has ALWAYS been completely oblivious to how the product works. It's nothing new. The company will just be relegated to the low end of the market. They'll be caught in the middle of a race to the bottom to see who can press the "generate" button the cheapest.

[@DARKINBLADE.]

AI may be easy to spot but the truth is more people do not care if it’s easy to spot. Companies want whats cheapest, some companies at first I’d imagine will embrace the flawed look of AI, whilst others will simply pay workers a cheaper wage to correct what AI has generated to make it look authentic.

[@AlexIvanov]

Not only images, texts are also easily detected. They all have this eerie vibe, like the uncanny valley, when at first glance it's OK, but the more you read through the text, the more you notice something is wrong with it. But like said above, many people just don't care if it's that way.

[@tumescent]

I think it's better to be realistic: what you're describing isn't necessary an inherent feature of AI, but is a technical limitation that will be improved upon with the exponential development this software is seeing. The whole "but it can't do this yet!" mindset is poor cope.

[@oo--7714]

@@tumescent it can do it, but it just needs a bit more attention of the prompter, I saw this ai assistaded art video and honestly it can fool a lot of people

[@kintustis]

@@tumescent cope harder. The problems with ai have been there for roughly a decade now. Ai still hallucinates and spews out crap all the time. You cannot fix the issue without getting an exponential increase in the amount of good data, combined with a completely redesigned set of training algorithms. And if the ENTIRE INTERNET is not a large enough dataset to make a believable ai, then the problems will simply never be fixed. This isn't to say that ai isnt ever going to be useful, just that we will not in our lifetimes see a self-driving car that doesnt at least sometimes swerve onto sidewalks to mow down children. I pose that it is already useful in the realm of sales and low-level customer support: "hello, thank you, have you tried turning it off and on, we'll go ahead and process that return, please wait while i fetch an actual human being." Same with "watch 50,000 hours of wildlife camera footage, and tell me timestamps when you think you see a bird." Situations where 80% is good enough, and there are humans there to review the data before it goes to the public. Self-driving does not have that extra time before a mistake is made, but a marketing team that just wants to stop wasting brain cells typing "buy now!" might. It will not ever take over high-end design. There are fleetingly few people stupid enough to pay 1,000$ for a stolen painting they know was spewed out by a computer in 2 seconds. But it may be good enough to generate soulless musak, or background pieces.

[@jacqulinestille3704]

I just got a degree in graphic design and graduate right as this hit. What a waste of school, I’m now unable to get a job so I’m going to have to work at a fast food and go back to school.

[@pookienumnums]

wrong. i promise you. what actually happened is they fired him, and hired someone that can do what he with photoshop or illustrator or gimp or whatever, but who also knows how to use ai. you cannot produce commerical marketing material solely with AI. it cannot place logos and blocks of text for you. you still need a grahpic designer, even with custom trained ai models. they probably fired him because they want to offer custom tailored graphics, i.e. photos or illustrations, to their clients. he was the only graphic design person doing email and web based marketing materials. he likely wasnt doing much, if any, illustration. running a business in 2024 that relies on google images, pintrest, or stock photo sites (many of which are overloaded with ai images anyway) puts you in at a much lower value to a client that wants tailored graphics. ive been using ai pretty heavily for 2 years, all different kinds. From disco diffusion to midjourney and dalle 2 and 3, and then running ai locally (on my own computer, no internet required) with stable diffusion through automatic 1111 (a web based ui (web based meaning in your browser, still local no internet) and then through comfyui which is a node graph style system that allows you to build various workflows that do all sorts of crazy shit, while also using ai (stable diffusion). in both still and animated stuff... and i can tell you, if they had 5+ years worth of his templates, they dont need to train a model on it. Even with the best ai models and techincally skilled users you would still need a graphic designer because AI simply cannot do page layout. it cannot place logos, pictures, or blocks of text where you want it to. and it cant write out those blocks of text as an image. either this guy is lying, was lied to, or just has no idea what actually happened other than he lost his job and ai was somehow involved. even if they trained a model on his stuff there would still need a graphic designer.

[@TuriGamer]

art degrees have always been a waste of time hope you already send a few applications to mcdonalds

[@jacqulinestille3704]

@@TuriGamer wrong. I actually just got a job. I’m so excited. Turns out my city just has too many designers and not enough jobs. It would have been easier if I moved but I got the job anyways

[@jadedzealot7150]

I'm so sorry to hear that this has happened to you and I wish you all the best to come! I'm in my 20s, and I've recently come to terms with the likely fact that my writing degree and how I've planned to apply it are null due to the advancement of AI. What I wanted to do just is not practical anymore, in the long term. It's extremely disheartening to witness what this technology is already doing to us and wonder how many of us will be able to get by in the near future. It's getting harder and harder to find any footing in this world and feel that it's solid

[@MahouKat]

Same here - I began with the idea of going for copywriting or professional writing. Now midway through the degree, I don't know what to do.

[@jadedzealot7150]

@@MahouKat That was part of my plan, too. I think the best advice one of my writing professors gave me is to find a job outside of writing, since many writing jobs are freelance and not as stable. If you can land a position in the field, though, that's great! I had a hard time but was fortunate enough to find a position as an accounting assistant, and I still write in my free time. As long as you're still in college and have the ability and means, if you can find anything outside of writing that interests you that could serve as your stabilizer while you pursue what you truly want to do, I highly recommend it. If you need some gen ed courses or electives, those filler 101 or 201 courses can be eye-openers! There may even be a new interest found from an on-campus job. That's how I discovered my interest for accounting, oddly enough. On the whole, I think it's worth seeing your major through, as writing is still such a crucial and admired skill to have in life. Although I've accepted that a professional writing career may not be in the cards for me, I'll never give it up (it's too fun lol). I could certainly go on, but I'll leave it here. I wish you well, fellow writer, in all that you do. You and your abilities have value and a place in this ever-confounding world, even if the outcome doesn't quite mirror your ideal vision - it rarely ever does. I don't know you, but I truly believe in you :)

[@pookienumnums]

as good as you think ai is, the outputs are still corny. good writers will not be replaceable. That said, there is a lot of shitty writing out there, in major productions. I dont think the risk is any greater that youll be replaced by something that isnt as good as you. It was already pretty massive.

[@jadedzealot7150]

@@pookienumnums I agree! It still has areas to grow for its language to be more fluid. I think that many creative writers like authors, screenwriters, content writers, etc. will be relatively safe. Technical writing positions risk depletion because they may use templates to help them create their products and documents for their clients. I was talking to a friend who said their company input templates to Chat GPT to help them create new procedures, and it's worked well for them. It's great for them, but that's a tech writer's livelihood, which is where my concern lies, especially since AI has come so far so quickly

[@neoteraflare]

When you give 6 years to a company and in the end they just fire you without a second thought...

[@navb0tactual]

Then they wonder why a lot of people jump jobs a lot. There is no loyalty or security for the average employee, so why should they be loyal back? AI is going to exacerbate this current reality a lot...

[@sunbleachedangel]

Literally as old as time

[@tanura5830]

They have the right to do that

[@sketchiefello9002]

@@sunbleachedangel no. It isn't.

[@sunbleachedangel]

@@sketchiefello9002 you sayin workers used to be more valued in the older days?

[@G59METH]

As a graphic designer myself, I called this over a year ago, and everybody laughed at me

[@JxSTICK]

Same

[@vxgamer8505]

As a person in cybersecurity im scared😰

[@smthnew861]

And then there are those aholes - oh, AI is a TOOL, not a replacement!

[@enilenis]

I kept trolling artists at the studio with AI creations. Duplicating any task given to them, even though I wasn't assigned to it. Simply showing that AI can do pretty much anything at this point. Any single aspect of work. Just have to search and you'll find it. I still hear "sour grapes" comments, even as my colleagues disappear one by one. Ones who had left are asking if there are any new jobs and nope. Everyone is cutting. Everyone is laying off. Either you keep what you have, or you are already over the edge. If you know AI, you may last a year or two, but eventually AI just does everything. No need for anyone, except the original guy with all the ideas. Like writing a song is done with Suno. You feed a single rhyme and seconds later have a full plot of a story done according to that input direction. A tiny push, and AI does the rest. Does it nearly for free, therefore, even those good at AI can't really make a living. Only the corporations can, who use it to mine for more data and gradually mold personalities of their users into whatever they want. Start using their personal assistants for propaganda to maximize profits and control thought... ... goddamn the future is too dark, and I'm too young to live.

[@santiinx737]

Go to any meme using AI last year and the comments would’ve been filled with “and people are scared this will take over the world hehe”

[@beanboi789]

I'm a software engineer. AI is not nearly good enough to replace a good designer. Not the ones I've worked with.

[@JustIsTime890]

Yes, maybe the company just ask him to do very generics templates at his works? Because normally need to talk a lot with a client to get the design he wants if it is about custom design.

[@nolanmartin6601]

For now

[@magonus195]

That's a very big-brained way to insult the poster of this video as a bad designer. I guess we'll find out if you are a _good_ software engineer in the coming months. 👍

[@maverick9860]

@@JustIsTime890 Yeah I really feel like it was something like this... the web design work I do requires meetings upon meetings and user testing and minor tweaks and the like. There is likely a certain type of role (Like our assumption) that is going to be filled first before the tech gets more advanced to fill the shoes of the more intricate positions.

[@Yadlina]

keyword is "good" 50% are not good.

[@4000Wiggins]

I am so sorry, man. This is terrifying what’s happening now.

[@greggorythefox722]

In the past, people wanted robots to do all the hard work so we can focus on art and living. Now robots do art and people needed to do hard work for a living

[@iceneko9170]

give it a few decades and the robots will probably be doing the hard work too! what then. haha...

[@MouseGoat]

@@iceneko9170 "few decades" there is that optimistic linear thinking again its exponential function, we dont got a "few decades" I predict the first confirmt sentient computer within the next 5 years But After that... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - G A M E - O V E R -

[@jackadam01]

@@iceneko9170 Live in the woods

[@ChannelCustomization.]

​@@MouseGoat yeah.. not 5 imo. 7/8 maybe? who knows we don't have true AGI yet, if anything GPT-4 is a weak AGI what we have right now might be considered a broadly trainable artificial intuition.

[@user-sb5vt8iy5q]

@@iceneko9170 UBI or the world is over

[@BenjiByt3]

Dystopian as hell, an AI being trained on your own work to replace you is so downright corpo evil. AI has become another way to replace people who just want a decent job.

[@MrCmon113]

A corporation isn't a charity for artists. I don't know why artists feel entiteld to get paid even when they aren't needed. Training others on your work has always existed, it's called an apprenticeship.

[@BenjiByt3]

Ah yes, wanting to work for a living, the epitome of entitled. Oh and of course teaching someone a skill is exactly like replacing someone at their job with an AI copy of themself and their lifes work. Its *definitely* a good thing that companies are finding more ways to cut costs and people so that average people have a tougher time making a decent living. What a win for the 1%. Very sane take.

[@-Gnarlemagne]

​@@BenjiByt3 don't even engage, it's probably a bot. Everyone with two brain cells to run together knows that the ultimate entitlement is feeling entitled to appropriate someone else's work, then cut them out of the bargain.

[@alabasterindigo]

Seems to be a bot yeah, there’s replies like that to almost every comment.

[@stanouincustody]

@@alabasterindigo ppl when others disagree:

[@samgoodwin89]

Become a roofer. At least 20 years until that’s replaced

[@recondeveloper2023]

Until the AI falls off the roof and they company waste millions ..lol

[@JaBigKneeGap]

@@recondeveloper2023 robots 20 yrs from now probably won't just shatter like that from falling

[@recondeveloper2023]

@@JaBigKneeGap pfft, they are building thing cheaper and cheaper, they certainly will, I seen how stuff is built over the decades, its not better, its cheaper and less quality, since the 1980's when it was good..

[@TuriGamer]

More like centuries Human labor is just way cheaper than automating something that complex Robots are still far off

[@brandonwest4168]

God. I’m so sorry to hear that. I hope you’re able to find a better job at a company that values you and your skills. God speed bro.

[@FelipeKana1]

Regulation on AI is urgently needed. If your work trained the AI, you should be forever rewarded for it, each time it is reused, just like actors receive residuals for re-plays of shows/movies EDIT: hey folks, thanks for the likes and comments. Seems like many of the commenters can't be imaginative enough to understand that this proposal is a CHANGE from the actual current law. Yeah, I know that under today's law, "he got paid for the job". I proposed that new regulation changes that. Afterall, he got paid for a single use product, not for the overall availability of the trained AI made with his work. People who think "everything he made while being paid hourly is the companies property" have surely never read a single work contract and never saw sindicates negotiating. Also, so many people seem to be completely appalled by the notion of distributing wealth fairly, as in the simplicity of "who did the work should get the prize". Seriously sad to see.

[@astronaut5009]

There is a reason for not imposing regulations on AI, in any country. The places that impose regulations will fall behind compared to those that don't and will lose this AI war. That's why those AI companies have unlimited freedom.

[@hoho7029]

Yeah, it happened to my mate and they cannot do nothing- cannot object as employeer owns what employee did, theres no laws against training someone work into AI, no royalties nothing. Its shite.

[@dasjdasjdhasjdhasjdh]

Nah fully disagree here. The employer takes a risk every month that the employees are actually providing something useful in return of a salary. So the actual owner of the work is the employer, because they paid for it. So if you are not employing yourself, you are not taking any substantial risks. There is no reward without a risk, and when you are employed, you have minimum amount of risk while the employer has maximum amount of risk.

[@TQFMTradingStrategies]

@@dasjdasjdhasjdhasjdhthat’s true, this being said, if you discover somthing truly ground breaking keep it to yourself leave and patent it and then make them buy it back from you 😂 It’s worked for others in the past. But it’s a gamble lol

[@mvp4168]

he got paid 7 years of money for doing design... i know it sucks, but its not his design, its the companies design

[@nk__]

We have the tools to replace the shitty jobs Yet we replace the fun ones

[@demilung]

Do provide examples please which "shitty job" workers should rather lose their jobs?

[@ze1st_]

@@demilung basically the one who cleans up shit.

[@razorblopstoper]

@@demilung any white collar excel sheet keyboard monkey office job

[@t0rya]

​@@demilungfactories still require people

[@schizotakes]

@@demilung stocking is a pretty lame job.

[@HalfLifePlays]

LOVE seeing this video blow up on your channel. I also am a graphic designer and have been professionally since 2014.

[@paulmclean876]

Brutal man but you're dealing with the tsunami head on instead of hiding from it. I wish you every possible success!

[@shodanargie1574]

A tip for life in general: If you are suddenly being given a lot less work, START UPDATING YOUR RESUME IMMEDIATELY

[@joecoollc101]

If my company would give me only 2 hours of work every day, i would be extremly worried.

[@pictureus]

@@joecoollc101 Exactly, this is probably the biggest red flag in the story imo.

[@clray123]

I would actually love it. Because I don't need employment. The irony apparently is, the less you need your job, the more of it your are getting :/

[@soymilkman]

@@clray123if you don’t need employment why are you working? I would be off on vacation in Japan or Thailand rn if I were you

[@aleph.nought]

@@soymilkman Maybe to have something in their CV just in case they will need a job in the future I assume.

[@franco9249]

Patient zero, half of the planet’s population will have to face this.

[@blame7121]

I firmly believe everyone will. Think of a job, any job, and tell me why a machine won't be able to do it.

[@juiceereal]

@@blame7121political jobs, social jobs, jobs that require face to face interactions, charity work etc.

[@user-py8kj5ve4y]

⁠@@blame7121Politician, Landlord, Singer, Athlete, Model, Researcher, Therapist

[@TravisHi_YT]

@blame7121 Plenty of professions were smart enough to see this coming so have been actively lobbying against it.

[@JohnFKennedy313]

@@user-py8kj5ve4yAI and robots can do all of that. AI is probably smarter than most politicians and AI can sing and create songs in an instant.

[@kusikus2934]

I've graduated from Graphic design a few weeks ago, and seeing what's happening in the industry nowadays is heartbreaking. I've been looking for design related jobs lately and honestly I can't shake off the fear of something like this happening in the future, especially with the junior-level jobs. Makes me think if those 4 years of studying were even worth the hype. Thanks for this video, man. I hope you're on a better path now ✌

[@Co1in532]

Feel so sorry for you man. I was so lucky, I’m 55 years old now and I’ve been a graphic designer since my mid 20s, it’s all I know how to do and the only thing I’m good at. Unfortunately those days are over. My 2 sons wanted to do my job but I’ve advised them to steer clear of it, this job has no future. I get by on freelance work, and I have a design job but I don’t know how long it will last, probably a couple more years. Hope things work out for you 🤞

[@Avidire]

I just wish there was a management AI to make these managerial positions redundant so they know how it feels.

[@morsch2028]

There probably will be, don't worry.

[@whynow7035]

@@morsch2028 I second this

[@thecardboardboxtrain356]

there is but of course management is uncomfortable with that and doesn't implement it

[@Vladimir-wh5hs]

Honestly this might be the absolute best idea, I'm assuming the A.I will lead in the interests of the people because the natural human desire to benefit itself will be gone and hopefully therefore greed.

[@cap-ml7ky]

​@@Vladimir-wh5hslmao, maybe this is why guys like elon are fear mongering ai. Tbh, I trust an ai overlord to take care of me instead of some scummy bezos figure to exploit me.

[@GhostStealth590]

As a filmmaker, photographer, and also minor graphic designer. AI has scared tf out of me for my job prospects. Companies only want minimum wage workers. They complain and make crocodile tears about how they can't find workers, but either they're too picky or no one wants to work for peanuts.

[@Kibermozgai]

Well, that just how it always have been and how it's always would be. That the way of capitalism. Either blame the one who agree to buy cheep crap from that companies (or work on them) or just work for yourself, become their competitor. And if you failed - well, that's just once again shows that masses don't need a good job, just a bare minimum as well. I still think that biggest problem is not a companies, but consumers.

[@user-tt3lb1yy6i]

Why don't you start a company yourself then? Solely relying on other companies to feed you was your first mistake.

[@adonisparts1343]

get a forklift license lol

[@Sandstimes]

​@@Kibermozgai the consumers are the same employees being payed so little by these companies that they have no other choice than to buy their cheap exploitative products, your logic is completely backwards. Governments should exist to prevent the rich from exploiting the poor and funneling all of the wealth up to the top, not just to benefit themselves, or else there's no reason for that government to exist at all. This is purely just victim blaming.

[@bumblebeegamerreal]

The sad thing is that even though AI didnt exist, comapnies are still willing to exploit workers

[@MrGermandeutsch]

I liked and subscribed in the first 10 seconds. My condolences, sorry to hear that AI has made a negative impact on your life and the lives of many other people.

[@drob9673]

I used to work as a translator for many years. About 4 years ago I started getting requests from companies to translate single phrases which seemed tricky in exchange for some money. I then realized they are fine tuning AI model to replace all translators. At that moment I went back to school and retrained to become an engineer to maintain tools in a semiconductor industry. Today the AI can translate in real time and much better than any human could. Semiconductor industry is going through a boom now with about $1trillion of subsidies flowing into it. If you guys are looking for a safe job consider semiconductors. Specifically maintenance. Barrier of entry isn't that high. Some basic few months long electrical course is usually enough. Just start with some entry level position like tool installations, get by for a year and then apply for a field service engineer position. Money is good and it's going to be a while before the robots can take over this.

[@dougdoug9223]

Wonderful advice. Congrats. How's the job security there

[@drob9673]

@@dougdoug9223 job security is good. They are desperate for people basically. Almost anyone can get a job in this industry right now. Entry level companies like: Kelly Services, MSR-FSR, WGN-STAR all serve gateways to giants like Intel, TSMC, AMAT, TEL, ASM, ASML. But I wouldn't apply straight to them. Instead start with an entry level position, get clean room experience, upskill even more and then apply to one of the big ones. The pay is good.

[@grad_student]

What do u mean barrier to entry is low? I'm doing PhD is solid state physics. Its so difficult

[@drob9673]

@@grad_student for maintenance and especially for tool install the barrier of entry is low. Money is decent too. In US 5 figures for entry level and low six figures ~150k for maintenance. The environment there is clean, dry and warm.

[@drob9673]

@@grad_student I'm sure you'll find work in research. Companies like Applied Materials are currently desperate for research people.

[@122sparDa]

My cousin dropped out of college from a graphic designer degree because of this AI bullshit .. now he's working with law enforcement. He's not happy, but whenever i go over to help build his pc, he has this amazing artwork on his computer and uses some of his artwork to get tattoos of it. I'm sorry to hear about this

[@sketchiefello9002]

AI is taking over police next lol

[@iconofthicc6086]

⁠@@sketchiefello9002beep boop *screams the n word at a black guy*

[@Luck3yv]

​@sketchiefello9002 i dont think anyone would even want to trust ai police, imagine you just get tazed out of nowhere or even shot because it didnt recognise your face or paired it to a mass murderer

[@garrettl8247]

Why is it bullshit. It is total fair. Technology is used for everything. If a ai can do the work and do it for free it is simply a no brainer. Yeah it sucks to not work in that field anymore but it is life

[@robertmcdougall1144]

@@garrettl8247Really, you don't see it? smh

[@Fillup82]

If the AI was trained on you you should get a royalty on each of that company’s visual communications for life. This absolutely needs to go to the courts.

[@ZoranRavicTech]

They would probably claim that the templates he created belong to the company. If you were a freelancer selling designs that's a different story, since you could claim that they are reselling the designs you sold to them.

[@BlunderB]

It's been argued before many a times, employees own nothing they create under company time with company resources. If your doing a side project you have to be careful if you accidently use your company email or laptop for anything they will try and claim it is their and win alot of the time. Used to happen all the time in the 50s and 60s companies like ibm would hire geniuses just to make whatever they wanted but they would claim the rights to it so the genius got nothing... like the creator of the ethernet cable sadly

[@mtallan]

Unfortunately the reality is that everything you do for an employer belongs to the employer since you got paid to do the work.

[@JmKrokY]

​@@ZoranRavicTechTrue

[@trg1408]

​@@mtallanThe unfortunate truth in this scenario

[@Melyjr]

I appreciate your transparency with this! It's very realistic and potentially the outcome of a many career changes in the immediate future.

[@pookienumnums]

its only realistic if you no next to nothing about ai, what it can and cant do, and how it actually works. they didnt replace him with ai. they replaced him with someone that can use ai. they probably arent training a model on his stuff. they have 5 to 6 years of templates. templates are meant to be reused, and generally easy to modify. dudes skillset or lack of became obsolete. its as simple as that. even if they had a perfectly trained model, they still need a graphic designer. period. simple as that.

[@Shavirae]

The beginning to the end, that can be any job being replaced by AI in time .. ._.

[@gg-dy6cf]

moral to the story: whatever you do, do not have loyalty to your boss, because they will never have your back when they dont need you.

[@MaximilianonMars]

More or less

[@Mrhellslayerz]

​@@MaximilianonMarsTf you mean "more or less"? Unless your boss has actively fought for you during your worst moments, what he said is spot on.

[@kiasheo9142]

@@MaximilianonMars If your boss can make profit while screwing you over, he will not hesitate a second to do it

[@bustavonnutz]

Remember, you're an "asset" i.e. a resource. You aren't even a person to them, & they'll throw you away once you're no longer useful.

[@Louganda]

​@Mrhellslayerz how do you ask what he means, then provide an example of what he means???.???

[@TuskForce]

"human resources" is the term that says it all. We are considered a resource, not respectable beings.

[@ure2grit931]

Human resources, because we are strip mined

[@masteyeah4512]

Human resources should be abolished

[@MORDKAu]

@@masteyeah4512if you abolish human resources you're going to destroy whatever support there is left for human workers. It's because of HR that there's proper recruitment, training and even therapy to keep the workers' spirits and motivation high. Abolish it and you'll see mass absenteeism, and a skyrocket in suicide rates

[@r33gz14]

yes, to a company its employees are (becoming less of) an incredibly important resource, and one that used to be the only thing keeping a company running

[@alexzeng9833]

I agree wholeheartedly but that's not what the name means, it's supposed to be resources for humans

[@TforTofu]

Dude I’m so sorry. This is terrifying 😢

[@taumil3239]

Worked as a web dev and had a lot of respect for our designers, this sucks. I'd think if you're the only designer they would keep you just to have you overlook the AI. The companies that stick with people might win out in the long term, but who knows, hope things work out for you.

[@PowerChicken2k]

Its really awesome to see the job I've wanted all my life is now basically unfeasible

[@Sgt_Glory]

This _is_ the job I've had for half of my working career. It's what I went to college to learn. I really really don't want to have to go back to the courier industry.

[@nnnik3595]

​@@Sgt_Gloryas a software dev I feel you - . We sort of gave the same future

[@LimakPan]

You'd have to branch into AI yourself and try to become its art engineer. It sucks ass.

[@prettyradhandle]

@@Sgt_Glory wouldn't wanna deliver some chip either might get shot in the head

[@johnery447]

tbh. If graphic designing is your dream job that's kinda on you...

[@October-TE]

It kind of scares me because of how quickly this started, only like 2 years ago I was thinking "yeah robots probably won't replace our jobs anytime soon" and now we get THIS happening to people around the world, it's a surreal reality to suddenly live in We truly do live in a boring dystopia

[@totallynuts7595]

I remember 5 or 6 years ago a friend in high school had a presentation about stuff like this, since the theory existed, machine learning existed. Hardware stagnated (cpu's and gpus have hit their physical limits years ago) so that was never an issue. I blame the pandemic for why it took 6 years for us to realise what's happening. Those 2 years were basically a pause button for our lives.

[@commenter621]

Its not a dystopia lmao😂

[@yarpen26]

@@totallynuts7595 2019, when I started at my current company, was the first time ever I'd heard about AI being actually used in real programming, not just as a crazy sci-fi idea. That was five fucking years ago.

[@October-TE]

@@commenter621 It's just a saying, but I didn't mean it literally

[@SenkaBandit]

there have been multiple innovations in history that are seen as good things, but have put people out of jobs. One example I can think of are telephone switchboard operators & leather cobblers. Innovation isn’t dystopian

[@Lowflyingmoose]

Man I am so sorry to hear this. I really hope you land on your feet. I work in games and it is a constant scare for me. More laws need to be pushed faster to protect us. It's getting real now for a lot of people. So sorry this sucks for you. Good luck.

[@dwfc775]

I wish you the best going forward man. Hope KZbin or making your own company works out.

[@simonnilsson1572]

I imagine things will turn out like this for the company: * Collects professionally designed materials. * Trains Ai on the good materials. * Fires the designer. * Encounters issues AI can't solve. * Modifies service offering to work within AI capabilities. * Service becomes stale and generic. * Panics and regrets firing the designer.

[@gamers-xh3uc]

Thats not how it works they wont fire every designer they will fire 99% of them and will make that 1% give new data to it

[@captaingabi]

* Hires designers again for tripple amount of money.

[@Michael_Oliver_]

@@captaingabi Designer laughs in their face and refuses to work for them.

[@charlie.h.]

u wake up from ur delusion.

[@konnyknees]

As nice as that sounds, it’s not gonna happen. AI is not going to struggle w some kind of imaginary problem in the graphic art process. This isn’t splitting atoms. We’re talking colors and shapes that fit some description here. 😢

[@bakalakadka]

The company will go out of business when their clients realize they can do the same thing. Clients will stop paying for services.

[@Tropicoboy]

Lol the irony. Like hey Ai can you build me an AI to generate AI art and all that. Sure boss that will be $20 a month for the subsciptipm

[@bakalakadka]

The better strategy would have been to teach nadestraight how to use AI to help him do his job better. Improving his speed would give him time to be more creative thereby elevating the final product sold to the client.

[@zenithquasar9623]

Most clients don't seek something elevated, they want generic and fast ​@@bakalakadka

[@safesexmonster]

​@bakalakadka they know the are toast. It would be a losing battle. I will be shorting companies like this.

[@Maddinhpws]

@@bakalakadka Well it seems like the company had a certain benchmark for quality. In fact he himself said that he would have far fewer tasks taking him only 2.5 hours a day to do. So my assumption is. They trained the AI, compared it to his typical output and found the AI good enough. Then they lowered his workload as they could do the typical contracts by AI and then compared the "You have a lot of time to do this work" works to what the AI outputs and found him wanting.

[@NolansNote]

This is insanely heartbreaking.

[@hellxapo5740]

I was so hyped up to start learning coding, after many years of back and forth thinking about it, now I'm afraid some AI can just do a month of my work in a day.

[@kennethlandis6291]

I wouldn't worry about that initially. One of the things about AI is that it is extremely capable of writing reasonably small code blocks that look very clean and can be decently complex. The problem is for it to accomplish this, it needs very specific and detailed parameters, and requires a lot of practice writing prompts to get it to do so. If there is anything i've learned programming, is that customers/other departments in the company are horrendous about knowing what they want or how to describe what they want, so coding should be fine for quite awhile. Eventually all jobs where people don't prefer humans will be taken over, but programming pretty farm down on that list.

[@Yuuteimiya]

As a web-dev, yes and no. We use AI constantly at our job but mainly for documentation checking (i work with multiple frameworks that are constantly updated and often work with unfamiliar languages) and simple code blocks (mostly writing tests and double-checking it). At least for now (i guess) AI is not able to work with complex microservices systems (my current job has quite a big system of them), as well as manually checking and understanding what goes inside the code as well. a lot of developers work at my company is not really coding it's working with multiple sides of the systems setup. For example in one day I have to: update values and setup in AWS for new update, release version of code in one part of the project (and those are also made very specific to the company, and documentation for it is actually asking other devs), talking with designer saying what's actually possible with our project, talking with team lead referencing what marketing dept should be providing for our job and maybe at the end of the day I'll do small update in backend service. Don't forget a lot of the times I also might not have access to some projects and need to request it as well👌 Yeah, actually coding for days in current times is only possible in fresh startups (maybe with some exceptions ofc). If you plan to work in an established company with existing projects that are already 5+ years, you'll do MUCH more than just coding, believe me. Remembering, cross-referencing different parts of the project, knowing and partially understanding business goals, assuming user behavior and possible security vulnerabilities all in one is still not really done by AI.

[@jankaufmann4305]

Don't learn to code. Learn no code tools.

[@resresres1]

it'll be quite some time before AI can write large programs on it's own. It's very good right now at small code blocks if you ask it simple things, for example asking it the most efficient way to do a certain vectorization on a pandas dataframe or asking it if a certain library has a certain functionality and to show how to use it, but anything more complex or bigger and it starts to fail hard. Even if you start small and ask it to build onto it to add functionality to the program , it starts to fail hard as it just cannot keep track of everything going on in the code. I feel like it will be quite awhile before AI gets actually really good at handling larger programs.

[@danielagudelo9896]

same here bro, don´t know how this will end, but i learned enough at AI class to understand it eventually will achieve that, so now the problem is not even what work is safe, is what are we gonna do about it, maybe a self-company era, maybe the political people been useful for the first time giving us alternatives or forcing this massive companies to give us money every month?, i don´t know, try to get some side passive job like AI influencer or something better and learn to code if it is what you want, just be prepare for the storm becouse those technopsichos won´t do it for you

[@bottomtext593]

And people kept saying "oH aI wOnT sTeAl yOuR jOb!" Yet here we are. As an 18y/o with growing artistic aspirations, the future is looking grim already 😢

[@perz1val]

Tbf artists always had it rough and the job marked was at its highest due to digital marketing being so pumped. The corporate "artists" worked creating templated bullshit ads that already felt like some generated nonsense before even AI was involved. That is more like back to normal, it is shit, but it is how it always has been

[@usernameig975]

i feel your pain. As someone who wants to do translation and such, AI is the worst thing that could have happened to me...

[@zenvetie]

literally same. sometimes i second guess myself, but im still going because i love the process of learning and the satisfaction when i finish a project

[@HARRAWISH]

we wanted robots to do hard physical labour but we got robots that draw and write poems while humans do the physical labour.

[@babalovesyou]

Traditional art is the way to go for artists at this point. Digital will be assimilated by AI which sucks...

[@MoleculeXmolecule]

you are entirely too calm and composed for this. I'd be furious

[@Nadestraight]

Haha gotta stay cool under pressure! (Or, for the camera... lol)

[@dabberdaffy256]

lol

[@s.a.k.i7768]

Must have took him a lot of retry to keep his composure during the whole recording

[@spitbukket6862]

@@Nadestraightprops to you mate

[@pookienumnums]

its because hes not being 100% truthful

[@KatalistProductionsKozzySasha]

Good luck, hope things work out for ya bud!

[@PandaJerk007]

I found this video because of the title / concept, but I LOVE Halo so it really caught my eye seeing your Halo gameplay :) --- I am so sorry to hear about your job though. I still wouldn't give up as there are jobs that will hire your skillset! It may take applying to 25+ more companies, and you may have to move cities for the job worst case. That is super tricky about your house though. --- Agreed that AI has a lot more destructive power than anything else. Our world was pretty great and creative already, we really didn't need this new AI tech.

[@Motivatedlightmedia]

30 year vet of photography and video. Everyone will feel what photographers have been feeling for the last decade. Best of luck to all creators, artists and tech. When everyone is out of work who will buy anything? Something will give.

[@colbyboucher6391]

We won't buy anything, the secret hope is that we'll all just starve. The only people the truly rich actually need are blue-collar workers (and engineers and scientists to some extent). So long as there's enough people to sustain their lives, no one else matters, particularly because the population of this planet is out of control anyways. We'll get that Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space future (without the communism part clearly), but what most people don't understand is that it isn't for us. Most of us are middlemen, dead weight. Back to serfdom for anyone deemed useful.

[@davianthule2035]

The economic singularity, predicted by those filthy Marxists over a century ago, capitalism will get so advanced and so productive that it will destroy itself in the process, it's situations like this that breed revolutions etc.

[@tbc1880]

Given how the student loan discourse is, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help!" will be the answer and death nail.

[@imspencer06]

Eventually it will get so bad that when everything crashes down, only strong independent creators like yourself or upcoming talent will be able to lift things back up. Feels like a "things get worse before they get better" situation to me.

[@Motivatedlightmedia]

@@imspencer06 Agreed!

[@segatheegr8]

My father lost his job a couple of months ago to AI. He works in the IT field. He has over 20 years of experience, and almost 20 years on the same company that fired him.

[@SigmaMan1448]

What is the company?

[@neaedreath1472]

😭😭😭😭 I'm so scared to do anything that I want to at risk of losing it to AI Like first I wanted to be a graphics designer and now IT is being taken by AI too I'm doomed 😭😭

[@beetleooze7630]

@@neaedreath1472 If you keep being scared of the world you ain't gonna do shit.. go out there and do what makes you happy.. changing career at 28 ain't the end of time..

[@MoonShadeStuff]

You can’t replace someone with 20 years of experience in IT with an AI. Yes the AI can probably code something up, but the important parts of being a senior developer is architecture/system design, finding good ways to integrate a system with the rest of the company ecosystem and infrastructure, etc. - there are so many senior IT positions where nobody codes anymore, these will still be needed. If they really replaced him, they probably don’t know what they are doing.

[@FenrirRobu]

​@@MoonShadeStuff many IT departments actually are willing to take destructive risks. When my team reduced in size by half, everyone thought it was "fine" but it literally almost killed a project that had everything - finance, long term vision, support from the management and users. Moreover, before you blame a long term employee - many jobs don't let you develop in such ways. It's quite possible that you will be too busy to start working on new technology, and your company might require you to be on top of your old technology. I've left jobs before just to have time to study new technologies.

[@jinnturtle]

I'm sorry this happened to you, I hope you will find a way to adapt in this world that's going to go through some extreme changes. I remember in late 2000s many thought artists would be the least touched by an AI "revolution", crazy how just 10 years later it became obvious we were gravely underestimating our ability to automate with technology. The coming years are sure bound to be one very wild ride.

[@monkzyxx]

A few weeks ago I officially chose what college I wanted to go to and what degree I want to study, Comic Design, I started drawing 7 years ago and I'm still improving my art. Art is my only special talent and it feels like I am watching my future getting snatched away right in front of my face by AI. I'm so sorry for what happened to you and I wish you all the best out there, same goes for all the other artists/designers that are in the same situation.

[@nosky9296]

dont worry mate today it is you, tomorrow it is the company itself.

[@bobaorc7839]

The nepobaby asshole who basically had it baby-birded to him will just sell his shares and live in paradise. Companies aren't people and can't feel pain.

[@tyronewashington230]

That's the party he's missing in the presentation, he's thinking about it backwards. He, as a single person with AI, could replace that company you worked for. The unproductive company he worked for is "redundant", he alone could be that entire company now. AI makes us more productive. Boohoo, I used to wash clothes by hand, not with this machine washing my cloths I just feel useless and don't know what to do so I'll keep hand washing clothes and hope someone pays me for being old fashioned and less productive. AI has quirks. AI cannot hold context in chains. If you model something, then want a change, the AI can ONLY make a new image. "My goal is to start a new company". And you haven't done a business plan yet, when the opportunity for a new business has been staring you in the face since AI started in 2015?

[@FreeBellatrix]

@@tyronewashington230 100%. He should quickly seize the opportunity and learn AI ASAP and be the competition on the market. He does not need the company to do all the work, AI will do it for him. He can just be the creative brain behind it with all the new templates and what not. Marketing can be outsourced but with AI, that is becoming easier too.

[@amathee725]

​@@tyronewashington230 that got me thinking fr

[@angelgjr1999]

Exactly. Once customers know that they themselves can create websites and databases by simple inputs into AI, the entire economy will collapse

[@Otis-Spunks]

I went to school for 3D art and visual effects, and decided to walk away from employment in that industry and instead follow my Father's footsteps in carpentry and general contracting. For multiple years I felt a lot of regret of giving up on an art career, but recently I see just how blessed I was for walking away and being the son of a carpenter. I wish you the best my man.

[@danielgonzalezjimenez5677]

Maybe it's time to leave my industry too and become a mechanic. I like cars

[@sussbob]

I'm still gonna pursue art. I love it to much, and there's still tons of people who refuse to use ai work / companies who will get cancelled if they get caught ysing it. So. I would rather be a freelancer too

[@DeltaSignIsNotAvailable]

Currently studying software development, and boy do I feel that as well. AI is now getting trained to do all the work programmers usually do. Even if there's that question that asks "If AI steals our (programmers) jobs, who will build the other AI?", it still makes me worried about all the corporations and companies replacing valued employees for a bunch of strings and if statements. Might become a welder, just like my father.

[@blepware]

@@danielgonzalezjimenez5677 mechanic work sucks you do not wanna do that unless you specialize in something like tuning or bodywork.

[@anonymouslife3777]

Based. Do your hobby for the fun, do the hard work for the money.

[@TiaWs]

as someone who is currently studying media and visual arts in Finland, we are already studying graphic design etc with the help of AI, soon enough companies realise they wont have that new creative feel in their ads so they will rehire a graphic designer to work with the AI to make ads etc be good quality and get created faster

[@ackerwoman16]

Amen

[@GravitasZero]

Wait until AI gets even better than it already is. Don't pin your hopes on getting rehired. AI is currently not at its best and it is naive to believe it will not get better and fully, irrevocably replace everyone.

[@TiaWs]

@@GravitasZero AI uses human inputs to learn, nothing new and unique will be made, it would become repetitive

[@kostadesign8360]

@@TiaWs , Да верно, но для работодателей часто и не нужен уникальный продукт, главное, чтобы выполял свою функию: Пример простой постер для кофейни -- на уровне ИИ его можно сделать сегодня. Он может быть не уникальным, но его вполне будет достаточно

[@vaibhavkodiyan8831]

I'm truly sorry to hear about your situation. Your story has touched me deeply, and it's brought to light my own concerns about the future of employment in the face of advancing AI technology. I had previously thought that my field, Machine Learning, would be somewhat insulated from this trend for a while longer. However, hearing that highly skilled professionals in graphics design are being replaced by AI, it's a stark reminder of how rapidly these technologies are evolving. It suggests that the development of AI models capable of creating other models could become a reality sooner than we might have anticipated, possibly within this decade. Given your background in graphics design, I believe you possess a wealth of transferable skills that could serve you well in adapting to other industries. This transition might not only be a testament to your resilience but also an opportunity to explore new avenues where your talents can shine in different ways.

[@bryannaing6316]

This video is legitimately terrifying. You talk about this so personally yet so nonchalantly, and I've never felt so unnerved from such a laid back video. All other videos I've seen discussing AI taking jobs are all so detached and objective, but this feels so personal and relatable. I know that wasn't your intention, but you gave me a huge reality check. I hope you get back into a well-paying graphic design company soon.

[@JohnnyCrypto789]

Protest against AI, start pushing for a ban

[@chillinon3263]

As another brit, not even being funny but this is a very common style of venting for us, so many heart to hearts with my mates sound like this. The voice is matter of fact, but they are hurting.

[@Red_04]

@@JohnnyCrypto789 A ban is a bit much, especially when it's an incredibly useful tool. What should be done is ensuring job security, implementing laws that prohibit replacing workers with AI (just like how in the US you "can't" get fired for discriminatory reasons) or through some other method.

[@bryannaing6316]

@Red_04 This. I feel like going all Luddite and banning AI is a bit much, but also reinforcing job security is very important. There needs to be a middle ground, or we need AI to quickly reach a point where all humans can achieve free welfare so we can do what we want to without worrying about, you know, dying.

[@Vitali_Osandor]

@@Red_04 But the employee could very well use AI themselves. And so... everyone could be a graphic designer and finish a project in seconds...

[@odd-eyes6363]

The worst part about this is that the AI used your work to generate the new templates. The company is basically profiting off of you but cutting you out. It's not like in the past when machines would replace factory workers, this is literal art theft. That's horrible and unethical.

[@godfinger8016]

Major ethical violation for sure. Situations like this make me happy my school requires all students to take a relevant ethics course. AI has been a huge topic of discussion in them recently, especially Cyber Ethics.

[@HaHa-sm1jk]

Well, I assume that his work belongs to the company, so I see no ethical issue.

[@ThisIsntAYoutuber]

@@HaHa-sm1jk No legal issue you mean. The law and ethics don’t always match up.

[@calarencrow7480]

His completed works, yes. But his art style and vision is his alone. Replicating his artistic style while not paying him is ethically wrong

[@angelodusoleil]

@@HaHa-sm1jkLegally, that may be how things work, but it completely goes against general ethics to have someone unknowingly create a tool that mimics their work and then fire them.

[@eck-i]

Good luck my friend ! I hope the comments and some thumps up give you some Money man. Keep up ! You have now the attention of nearly a million people. Go on Buddy !

[@Nadestraight]

I appreciate it! Trying to turn this situation around :)

[@NivitMishra]

Best horror video of 2024 yet

[@MinorInconvenience666]

This is outrageous. I've always thought that "AI is going to replace our jobs", and yet here we are. Jobless, replaced by an AI that has no soul, no feelings, no complaints.

[@Skylancer727]

Well the issue isn't the AI taking jobs, that was always going to be the case, it's the fact the AI displaces far more jobs than it makes and that we have no systems for supporting people without a job. Technology has always replaced jobs with excavators replacing 50 men with a shovel, cars replacing the horse care takers, computers replacing a literal person who was called the computer, etc. The difference is in each of these changes there were more jobs made to offset the loss. Excavators require new factories to build and new specialists to work on. Cars also needed distribution chains, gas stations, repair shops, and general parts production. These devices replaced people but because of their physical nature there were more jobs made in the process. AI is fully digital and barely takes any work to run. There's a few IT guys who do checks of a data center, and that's mostly it.

[@Judgementtwiceoverplusn]

Mfw i stop taking it seriously when i see outis:

[@fishfood8711]

@@Judgementtwiceoverplusnoutism

[@okay1216]

outis

[@AA-lz4wq]

@@Skylancer727 Lowers costs so much that they need to re-invest in other fields to be competitive. No, it lowers costs so much that an individual could become the competition.

[@NotJustBikes]

That's brutal that they used your templates to replace you. I recommend that you read up about the Luddites. They have an undeserved reputation of being "anti-technology" but they had no issues with technology, they had issues with how businesses treated their labour. Good luck. I hope this video's visibility helps you find work that makes you happy.

[@AI_Impact_Zone]

Yup, tale as old as time. I made a video on this recently, hoping to shed further light on job losses due to ai.

[@yiannchrst]

Hey! It's interesting finding channels I know in the comment sections of other videos. I hope this poor dude finds a way out of this!

[@flopin9528]

Oh wow, I didn't expect NJB here

[@AlanMars]

This is now a leftie thread. Edit: Nvm, morons below are defending intellectual property and capitalism.

[@2kpresley67]

They aren't his templates, they're the companies templates. Simple is that, any piece of work that he created using the company name, logo, or representation, and while working on company time, belong to the company. They can do what they see fit with their own property . Also i doubt this dude was working as much or as hard as he says he was, even if he was working while technically clocked in he was working still working from home and probably fuckin around with other shit unrelated to work 75% of the time. There's are reason all these people love and fight so hard for WFH these days... because it means they get to work half as hard and play around on their computers doing other shit all day. He was a graphic designer and he already admitted to using templates often which takes so much time off of how long it takes to create designs, and the company didn't even see fit to hire another graphic designer clearly proving they didn't have the demand to hire another. Realistically the truth of this situation is that the company realized how much they were paying this guy, realized how similar all his designs were due to the fact he was so often just running templates and only making slight changes, so they decided they could just do the exact same thing using AI and save a whole salary worth of money as well as money they spent on this guys insurance and benefits.

[@antipoti]

I'm truly sorry to hear about your situation. It's incredibly tough to face such uncertainty, especially after dedicating six years to your job. Remember, your value isn't defined by your employment status. You've gained skills and experiences that can never be taken from you. These will be the tools that help you carve a new path forward. In these three months, consider all the possibilities that lie ahead. Sometimes, the end of one road is just the beginning of another. Your dedication to your family and your career is evident, and that same dedication will see you through this challenging time. Reach out to your network, explore new opportunities, and don't be afraid to step into unfamiliar territory. The world is vast, and your next great adventure awaits. Stay strong. You've got this. 🌟

[@TheogRahoomie]

Man this insane. I feel for you brother I hope you land on your feet. AI is going to be displacing loads of people. Not just in your industry. Good luck.

[@bobjames1521]

End game: these companies lose all their clients when people figure out how easy it is to just use an online tool which generates the website for you with AI... Then people start making bad design decisions since they no longer have a knowledgeable human guiding them. Graphic design becomes a shitshow for 5 or so years until a new job role called "graphic design architect" becomes invented where you basically just tell the client how to design the website and give tips and pointers for how to prompt the AI... End result will be you have the same job but based more on theoretical principles and not hands on. It will be more boring and there will be less roles available but this will be how it is. Decision making will become the only remaining skill worth hiring for.

[@oompalumpus699]

I'm in the customer service sector and I'm using my funds to study AI. It's my plan B. I don't trust AI from big corpos. I want an AI based on architecture I know intimately running on my machine locally. I think most of us should spec into electronics and programming to get started on building our own robots and AI.

[@pentachronic]

The difference, you’ll nee one Graphic Design Architect to support 200 companies and not 50 or so Graphic Designers as is current! We’ve seen this with old printing presses moving to digital printing, Music production going digital, etc. Unfortunately AI is going to have a bigger impact than any of us realise.

[@realdutchdave]

That sounds like a lot of copium to me...

[@michaelyau4163]

I think some industries are the same, especially IT. It is a vicious cycle. Experience competent hires gets laid off because the company thinks they paid too much. Then to realised, experience and quality is key to success and customer satisfaction. They make a U-turn. Problem is, it would be hard to hire back or fill in the void because the one experience guy that is being laid off, the head count they hired 3 inexperience staff. I wonder if HR is a problem or the guys that are sitting in top management are crazy to think that jobs can be done faster by putting in more people or using AI to solve issues when it is related to face-to-face engagements. In ideal situation, of course, but there is no 100% guarantee or zero risk. Oh well. I hope you found a job soon.

[@pentachronic]

@@michaelyau4163 It’s the hiring manager’s fault for lack of foresight. I’ve been in this situation and have vehemently told upper a management and HR that if they lay any of our group off the company will fail. Guess what, they did, it did!

[@metaberd5879]

this is a troubling video to stumble across when i just finished my first year of college for graphic design

[@smthnew861]

Honestly, change it!

[@N1h1L3]

Check which fields were "essential" during the pandemic, and focus on looking for something matching your intrests.

[@MouseGoat]

This really is the canary in the coal mine. Word of advice: RUN!!

[@selenophile5256]

Just about to do my bachelor's in my design, while trying to focus graphic design, your scaring me bro 😭. Wtf do I do ? Ui ux or product or fashion instead ?

[@alexket8403]

eventually we'll have legislation for AI replacing jobs/making people redundant likely. unemployment is a problem for the governments around the world so if it spikes, they'll look into it and figure out that AI replacing jobs is not a good thing for the economy lol

[@justin555666]

Man that sucks! I'm anticipating this is going to happen to me eventually. I'm a developer and many people in the industry are in denial, but we too will be obsolete some day. Sorry you're in this situation! Hope you figure things out!

[@nathangoshawk]

So many vids about the threat of AI on KZbin but this one hits home, this is real life.

[@pookienumnums]

no it isnt. he was replaced by someone who knows the ai tools. there are so many holes in his version of what happened. even with the best ai right now, you still need a designer to place text where you want it, place logos where you want them, crop, resize, format, etc.

[@nathangoshawk]

@@pookienumnums OK, but how many traditional graphic designers can you replace with on AI savvy guy and and adequate database?

[@pookienumnums]

@@nathangoshawk you cant, nathan. there is so much that ai can not do, and is a long way off. like, op said he did email and web stuff for a marketing company. i imagine that those emails and websites have a lot of text, multiple images, different sizes and resolutions etc. ai cant do all of that. It has very limited capability to generate accurate text. and, it cant take your text from a paragraph and just magically put it over an image, and even if it could right now do that, it couldnt place them precisely where you tell it to. there absolutely has to be human intervention and multiple intersections of the process.

[@pookienumnums]

@@nathangoshawk im sorry i misread your question. that is actually a great question. i guess the answer would depend on the scope of the work, the amount of projects that need completing, and how much time you have to do it. he was the only guy he said in the vid if i remember correctly. the only thing you can really replace is a percentage of the people responsible for illustrations or photographs. graphic designers are pretty safe from ai right now.. the threat of cheap freelancers and outsourcing still exists (as it has for years)

[@nathangoshawk]

​@@pookienumnumsNo problem, thanks for the information.

[@thatonepossum5766]

Man, this sucks. People keep telling me I should go into illustration or something, but if people are losing jobs en masse to AI, maybe I really should go with dog training instead… they’ll have to develop mass-market androids to replace that job with AI. :/

[@matKilla9801]

You’d be surprised. Learning how to train your own dog is super easy with ChatGPT. There will be less demand for a professional once people realize it’s not that hard to do it themselves.

[@SKULLTHEWIZARD]

AI will replace everything we do

[@Kringlet]

@@SKULLTHEWIZARDwrong opinion

[@That0neFrog]

​@Kringlet honestly why wouldn't it?

[@tombrandis2866]

@@That0neFrog becuase it's bad at anything that requires it to more than *seem* good - it can make a picture or story fine but if you ask it to use logic it makes up random stuff that isn't true

[@Hexenat]

bro, AI was supposed to give us more time for art, not TAKE IT AWAY FROM US

[@zagreus5773]

Not under capitalism.

[@zdrux]

He certainly has more time now.

[@carlosgomezsoza]

Art for the purpose of expressing yourself is still only reserved for humans. Sadly art as a job or a way to get money, that is what ai is replacing.

[@eloquentsloth6080]

@@zagreus5773 At least under communism, AI would give us more time to farm potatoes for our glorious supreme leader

[@ordiman3958]

@@eloquentsloth6080 the point isn't really that communism is better, but capitalism has always been using new technologies to let us live better lives but to save money for companies and their shareholders

[@violettracey]

Thank you for sharing this!

[@apfelstrudlOfOA]

Hearing this makes me happy I never went to collage. Alsp hearing that you were financially stable and in the blink of an eye not stable anymore, is just so scary.

[@mandolorian1176]

This right here is why artist rebelled on AI generated art all over the place. What these companies are doing is stealing your art and work without any care. This is artistic theft by big corporations. We seriously need to regulate this shit and punish companies that use AI to steal peoples work as a training device. It's scummy, cruel, and ultimately unacceptable.

[@gruzi.]

except in this case they didn't "steal" his work, there's usually a clause in a contract you sign with a company when they hire you for jobs like this stating that all work you produce under them is property of the company. you would know this if you ever had a job

[@tanura5830]

But they pay salary

[@Steven-uy8pi]

@@gruzi. Yup and still scummy as heck - what sucks is like 99% of companies in this field usually have this type of clause, although usually just being a general "all you create is owned by us" rule, not neccecarily "fixed" on the topic of AI or similar. Problem in this case really seems that the current laws just aren't really up to date yet to handle stuff like "should an ex employee be compensated if his work is reused (even just to train AI)" but I suppose until governments will start to take notice the current market will probably have a few very rough years ahead. Considering most governments are STILL even just learning how the internet works though I can say GOOD LUCK with waiting for that lmao

[@garrettl8247]

No one is stealing work. It isn’t scummy or cruel. Just because a better way came about and made artist less valuable doesn’t make it unfair. It is total fair and makes sense for companies and anyone to use Ai as it get better. Just because it sucks doesn’t make it wrong

[@garrettl8247]

@@Steven-uy8piisn’t scummy at all. Do you know what a job is? A person or company pays you X amount of money for you to do a thing or things. You totally willing and by your own admission agree to the deal and work for the company or person. People like you are why today is so stupid they see companies and don’t think just say “ company BAD because company”

[@ganjacore]

I'm a 26 year old accountant with a degree and 4 years of experience (in a company) and received the same treatment, it's truly terrifying

[@micahwilliams1826]

Womp womp

[@theyseeyou7283]

wait so is the process currently happening or have you already been replaced

[@ganjacore]

@@theyseeyou7283 I was laid off in December last year already

[@fintan.]

what sector of accounting are you in?

[@wayuch9347]

@@micahwilliams1826 is it funny that people are losing their jobs? for what reason?

[@herrschneider5310]

this is downright despicable. I'm an illustrator and look at exactly that same abyss, and people ask me why I got no fingernails left. lots of people will be out of a job who have focused all their time into perfecting their skill. I'm 37 now, not many people want to hire someone my age with literally NO skills apart from what I do professionally. It'll be a shitty 10 years for a lot of creative workers.