Can AI help me steal someone's job?

[@just_chris1630]

I think the mistake people make when thinking about automation of tasks is they assume a room of 100 people will be completely replaced by a machine in one go. The reality is it starts by making people more productive. Then a recession hits and your company of 100 shrinks to 10 as the work drys up. Then things get better and the team grows back to 15 who do the same work as 100. Those 15 are also now unskilled, potentially offshore and probably casual workers.

[@jakelara9138]

How would the marketing team stand up to a trained marketer using Ai and undercutting them on price?

[@juanmiguelreyesguerr]

She became a mediocre professional in one or two days. It takes most people 4 years of university and many years of junior positions to consolidate as mediocre professionals. It’s mediocre professionals who will lose their jobs.

[@beardmcweird5667]

its just going to increase productivity the way i understand it, we will make 5x more things with the same amount of people, consume the planet 5x faster, everyone keeps their job

[@kinngrimm]

"55% preferred yours" so 45% were just fine with the AI approach, that used 1/3 of the man power. Well strictly from cost effieciency AI is already winning. I would assume though, that marketers will use AI to create several starting points, from where they then move on to create the final product. Which then in the end will mean that they either increase their productivity and get more work done, taking in the process customers from others who do not use it, just because they can handle more work load. Which will increase the competition and the use of AI overall in jobs like theirs.

[@ywueeee]

a better comparision would have to been to get AI experts vs Experts in their own fields and then compete it's not AI that's gonna take away the jobs, it's the humans that learn and improve their workflows with AI that will

[@run2cat4run]

Fun to watch but as a illustrator im terrified of AI would steal my job

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

Try gpt 4 with Dall e 3😊

[@prolarka]

Many of our jobs could be replaced already. Decisionmakers only prevent that from being done. At my workplace in one of the biggest companies in the world, I regularly automatize tasks. I see many more that could be automatized not only now, but could have decades ago. Managers do not let that happen. Managers who are unable to book me a hotel in a week's time. When they let me do on my own, I got it done in 5mins. And no, it is not because they are not trying. They are that incapable. Most of the workplaces are daycares for adults, social security programs. Even in the private industry.

[@hariowen3840]

Another important question not covered - the cost savings!

[@kinngrimm]

"I don't even know how to prompt this" That refers to a limitation of him, not of the AI. It was already said that an upcoming job might be a prompt engineer. Who only juggles to create the right prompt to get a task done.

[@davidvanderbyl904]

The problem is the aggregate of efficiency gains. If you become 20% more efficient at your job and your work is not creating a product or service with rapid growth (e.g. tech, etc.), then you have to ask: will I get 20% more time off or will this loosen the labour market within my field by approx 20%? Loosening of the labour market in one field will have knock-on effects in adjacent fields too, as people with similar skills shift/retrain and move into areas less affected by automation. Ultimately, I think AI will benefit owners over workers with a loosening labour market leading to wage stagnation along with the burden of job transition costs falling on the individual. With this, I think politically we need labour parties to start implementing some form of Universal Basic Income (UBI) to help stabilise the labour market and the economy as the effects of AI start to grow. A UBI will also help stabilise social cohesion, which should concern everyone as with AI comes the 5th industrial revolution, but unlike the previous 4 revolutions which primarily increased efficiency with physical labour and therefore largely affected blue-collar workings (farmers, labourers, factory workers, etc) this 5th AI industrial revolution increasing the efficiency of thinking which will affect white-collar workers (creatives, lawyers, accounts, engineers, educators, etc.). I say this because generally speaking social revolts on a large scale happen with the backing of white-collar workers. Pair this with climate change I think we're in for some interesting times ahead - hopefully, kindness will get us through it without too many scars.

[@scribblezgfx]

The photographer has a very tangible approach

[@TheMitchellij]

You should consider that ai is only going to get better from the point.

[@hariowen3840]

The most difficult challenge for many would be how to spend all the potential extra leisure time 'productively' and healthily.

[@CripleMusic]

Ai can glady take my job and id happily just receive UBI😂

[@realspacemusicvideos]

I just bought tons of Microsoft stock as my personal UBI after being laid off by ChatGPT!

[@SIGSEGV1337]

your job will be taken but you will not receive UBI, we are worse than peasants

[@CripleMusic]

@@SIGSEGV1337 No problem I'll just take in migrants and the home office can pay me instead😂

[@ItsTomRich]

JP represent!

[@justintcb5189]

I remember when Kasparov beat Deep Blue at chess in 1996. A year later the machine crushed him. Today that ship has completely sailed and a simple mobile phone chess engine will defeat even the best grandmaster. It'll be interesting to see this experiment done in 5 years...

[@importantname]

Writers going on strike to say to bosses - we are important. Proves to bosses they need to replace humans with machines.

[@Micbop]

Business goes for the cheapest & what is most effective! The top programs like Adobe will develop Ai versions that will smash any ad agencies campaign into the ground for example there is no way a human will be able to compete if real information with all the tech packs on how to do everything on the planet, marketing, stats & conceptual design/graphics ever made with totally up to date stats on target markets real time. What you using are just basic programs the best ones haven't even emerged yet!! I as a graphic designer will be able to totally do what a whole team does & pick out the best way to use it when it comes & I won't be doing much of the work just feeding the brief into they system & choosing the best of what Ai creates! Job done!! The job will be having a keen eye to which concept & design is best really & all stats will be outlayed already on the target market and what the projection on sales will be to use this creation in advertising for a client. Many Companies won't need to use ad agencies just 1/2 people that understand there company they work for with a keen or cheaper still out sourced to one person for not a big fee like they use to pay ad agencies to do.

[@ywueeee]

there's litreally skill issue, i could have created much better images for those prompts

[@JBrierley02]

I see the purpose of a business as threefold. To service the customer, to make money for the investor or owner, and to employ people so they can be customers. If you use AI to eliminate the third, then over time you’re eliminating the first, and the second quickly collapses. To paraphrase a famous saying “We were so focused on whether we could, we forgot to consider whether we should.”

[@CMDRScotty]

I think you ahould use chat GTP 4 specifically.

[@tedcrilly46]

AI will undercut and outshine all sorts of influencers and airheads.

[@mundokabaso9240]

Thank God

[@Wanderer2035]

You guys should’ve waited for Dalle 3 to come out it just came out a few days ago 😭

[@Keithlfpieterse]

What is creativity? What is Art? What is identity? What is CULTURE? Finally, "Who are we and what have we become?" Time for a quiet, cold beer. Cheers!

[@JamesParsons1]

Thanks for having me on! AI is part of my workflow but can’t see it taking over my job just yet! Next time, let’s battle on a sunny morning 😎

[@JFKennedeez]

Such a charming young man

[@TobiasStarling]

Proof AI is still currently only as good as the person using it…

[@James_Doyle83]

A.i should steal people jobs as they be better at it

[@Runs-InCircles]

The photographer is delusional, the AI produced a better picture every time and they weren't even using a good set-up. Those images could be twice as good with minimal effort.

[@Elizabeth-vh6il]

Nah. On second look, although the reflections generated by the AI looked fabulous in the foreground parts of the image (and arguably better than the real photo because the concept behind the AI image appealed more to me) the photographer was ultimately right because the parts in the midrange didn't look right. The same with the first AI image. The part in the distance underneath the arch of the tower just felt odd to me and drew my attention to it too much. However, I didn't like the photographer's bridge image because it just didn't feel beautiful to me and I was pleased that at least the AI tried to create something that's spectacular to look at even though it also feels like it doesn't quite fully work. I think the third pair of images was the most interesting though because I genuinely felt wowed by the AI and I'm declaring that one as a draw in my mind. The AI generated image was very good and I thought that the photographer was nit picking by saying it was cliché. Lots of cliched romance pieces produced by real human creators still get published and make lots of money. But I think who "wins" might depend on the reason behind why you want to make an image in the first place. The photographer's photo would be great in a newspaper column piece about the power of reconnecting with old friends and the associated positive benefits to mental health or something like that, whereas "Couple hold hands and enjoy a peaceful moment" isn't going to be news to anyone and isn't going to draw anyone into a reading an article. But it would make great ambiance imagery as the back page of a book or a closing shot of a film or something.

[@jamespulver3890]

@@Elizabeth-vh6il The other issue is photographers are horrible at judging what "regular people" would like in an image. Photographers hate Samsung and iPhone photo processing, but it sells millions of phones. The things the photographer was talking about probably don't even get noticed by regular people. The reflections one was a great example - the photographers was way more artsy, but I enjoyed looking at the AI one a lot more. And you're right - a lot depends on what you're trying to get. If you just want art - people have been happy with posters forever, and an AI poster is little different in my opinion. If you want a record of some event, you might want a photograph, but it's not really necessary to be done by a professional photographer just to be a record.

[@Andrew-rc3vh]

What shallow people.

[@Elizabeth-vh6il]

A few people are born with a 6th finger or toe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydactyly