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> The quality standard has already been met I acknowledged in my first post that a particular quality standard had already been met by AI. I also concede that

> The quality standard has already been met I acknowledged in my first post that a particular quality standard had already been met by AI. I also concede that this quality standard could be sufficient for many businesses. God help us all if it's 90% of businesses.

rcarr 4y ago
Sadly I think that’s where it’s heading. We’ve already got this dynamic where the majority of people get their stuff from the same big brands, and then increasing levels of luxury brands for the top 5% or so. I think it’s going to end up like that, where luxury brands who can afford it will brand the human touch as “luxurious craftsmanship” and then the other brands will have no alternative but to use AI because competition is fierce and everything is a race to the bottom. Even for stuff like movie making, a director or producer would hire an illustrator or team of illustrators and send off a script to get it storyboarded and probably have to wait at least a few weeks. Now they can just go to a prompt engineer and have it done in a single afternoon. There’ll be similar developments in VFX, if you have a look at the latest Unreal Engine 5.2 demo they do motion capture from a woman’s face from a mobile phone camera in a matter of minutes. The actress in the demo says that kind of thing used to take a month to get the same result. When you’ve got a bunch of competing streaming services and studios trying to churn out as much content as possible to keep subscribers, it’s going to be difficult for them to justify the slowness and cost of keeping those human workers compared to the AI.
- ipaddr 4y ago
  Streaming services for who? With everyone out of work
- Iwan-Zotow 4y ago
  Who will consume all this stuff?
  - rcarr 4y ago
    Well humans have adapted, just as they have adapted to every technological development. There are tons of jobs out there with shortages e.g paramedics, nurses, teachers, engineering, plumbers, electricians, construction etc. People will end up doing these jobs if that's the only way they can make a living. It does majorly, majorly suck for everyone whose dream it was to have one of the creative jobs that are being replaced. I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying it's probably what is going to happen.

rcarr 4y ago

Sadly I think that’s where it’s heading. We’ve already got this dynamic where the majority of people get their stuff from the same big brands, and then increasing levels of luxury brands for the top 5% or so. I think it’s going to end up like that, where luxury brands who can afford it will brand the human touch as “luxurious craftsmanship” and then the other brands will have no alternative but to use AI because competition is fierce and everything is a race to the bottom. Even for stuff like movie making, a director or producer would hire an illustrator or team of illustrators and send off a script to get it storyboarded and probably have to wait at least a few weeks. Now they can just go to a prompt engineer and have it done in a single afternoon. There’ll be similar developments in VFX, if you have a look at the latest Unreal Engine 5.2 demo they do motion capture from a woman’s face from a mobile phone camera in a matter of minutes. The actress in the demo says that kind of thing used to take a month to get the same result. When you’ve got a bunch of competing streaming services and studios trying to churn out as much content as possible to keep subscribers, it’s going to be difficult for them to justify the slowness and cost of keeping those human workers compared to the AI.

ipaddr 4y ago
Streaming services for who? With everyone out of work
Iwan-Zotow 4y ago
Who will consume all this stuff?
- rcarr 4y ago
  Well humans have adapted, just as they have adapted to every technological development. There are tons of jobs out there with shortages e.g paramedics, nurses, teachers, engineering, plumbers, electricians, construction etc. People will end up doing these jobs if that's the only way they can make a living. It does majorly, majorly suck for everyone whose dream it was to have one of the creative jobs that are being replaced. I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying it's probably what is going to happen.