That's the lie the grifters are trying to sell. "Look we're gonna automate workers, you need to invest in the next industrial age, stop hiring humans".

The fear is selling AI like hotcakes more than the AI is producing.

And I'm hardly saying AI is worthless. It isn't. I use it on a daily basis for my day job. But it's not replacing workers just like Google search didn't really replace workers, the same way wikipedia didn't either. It just made things more easy to do quickly sometimes, and sped up information search and access.

I think people unfairly call it a "worse Google search" when it's a very different sort of tool, but very similar to the situation before and after Google and Wikipedia came out. It has its place but it's not everywhere, and it's not going to make workers redundant as much as that it's selling point. I used to say maybe customer service, but even then it's layer zero for dumbass questions and shouldn't have any sort of trust to fuck with accounts.

[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

In this specific instance, storyboard artists will lose jobs. I know this, because I am handed ai storyboards that would have otherwise been created by people we would hire. More and more of my clients are using ai boards, and just not hiring artists.

Same thing is happening with scripts. I haven’t hired a copywriter in about a year, since my clients are using ai for that as well. We also use ai, but I am aware that I sometimes have removed a role that I would normally have paid someone to do.

Ai will indeed remove some people’s roles in the equation.