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> the number of jobs where the only parts capable of bringing joy will be automated away I've seen this claimed several times, but it goes against my personal

> the number of jobs where the only parts capable of bringing joy will be automated away I've seen this claimed several times, but it goes against my personal experience using it in business and software development where AI tools remove a lot of boring rote work. Can you give some examples of the parts of these or other jobs that bring joy which AI will replace?

Arainach 2y ago
All of content creation jobs are gradually evolving from replacing an artistic task with writing prompts. Even programming - oh, good, LLMs are approximately as good at a fresh college graduate as spewing out a bunch of code that isn't quite right and I have to go debug and review. Except at least I can get joy teaching the new grad and seeing them grow.
Yizahi 2y ago
Voice actors for example. Stealing one's voice patterns for training data and then replicating said voice indefinitely is now a possibility. Writers can be replaced too. The job is paying abysmally (from a hearsay) for almost all writers except for top tier ones. By automating writing and flooding all markets and niches with generated drivel this profit will be eliminated, then medium tier (for a lack of a better term) writers will be broke and switch careers, then the whole selection process which produces top tier writers will collapse since there are not enough people doing this in total, and then generated drivel will replace whatever writing jobs will remain. A few select authors will survive on Patreon style payments, but donations even today are famously concentrated to the very small number of top performers.
- hulitu 2y ago
  > Writers can be replaced too. The job is paying abysmally I've seen this for "journalism" when the AI is inventing credible propaganda pieces. In real engineering work you cannot go with thumb feelings (except FAANG, but that is another story). AI has no bloody idea how to qualify a test result.

Arainach 2y ago

All of content creation jobs are gradually evolving from replacing an artistic task with writing prompts. Even programming - oh, good, LLMs are approximately as good at a fresh college graduate as spewing out a bunch of code that isn't quite right and I have to go debug and review. Except at least I can get joy teaching the new grad and seeing them grow.

Yizahi 2y ago

Voice actors for example. Stealing one's voice patterns for training data and then replicating said voice indefinitely is now a possibility. Writers can be replaced too. The job is paying abysmally (from a hearsay) for almost all writers except for top tier ones. By automating writing and flooding all markets and niches with generated drivel this profit will be eliminated, then medium tier (for a lack of a better term) writers will be broke and switch careers, then the whole selection process which produces top tier writers will collapse since there are not enough people doing this in total, and then generated drivel will replace whatever writing jobs will remain. A few select authors will survive on Patreon style payments, but donations even today are famously concentrated to the very small number of top performers.

hulitu 2y ago
> Writers can be replaced too. The job is paying abysmally I've seen this for "journalism" when the AI is inventing credible propaganda pieces. In real engineering work you cannot go with thumb feelings (except FAANG, but that is another story). AI has no bloody idea how to qualify a test result.