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Entire news station production staff replaced by AI system

4 points by notRobot 2y ago

aurareturn 2y ago
I have an unpopular theory. I think AI will bring more jobs. Take this Reddit post for example. If 20 people can be replaced by 1 AI system and 1 manager, then it must mean one can create new TV stations a lot cheaper. So cheap in fact, that many entrepreneurs can look at the math and determine that there is room to create 50 new TV stations. Each TV station can hire 1 person to overlook the AI system. Thus, 20 jobs lost and 50 new jobs created. The problem is that in the intermediate time frame, there will be more pain as people get laid off due to AI automation, but haven't figured out how to use AI yet.
- theGeatZhopa 2y ago
  this can't be stated like this :) If 20 people can be replaced by 1 AI system, then to create 50 new TV stations exactly 1 AI system is needed. AI is heavy-mix-rotating the videos. Checking needs to be done once, after that the content can be used everywhere, because its checked & approved by one. I see dark times coming for certain jobs and branches. My father still saying its a hype - I say: its not a hype anymore, when there's so much money put into. If you see it as a game, it's inescapeable, that among hundreds and thousands of game-players, one or the other find something really usefull. The "law of big numbers" in small. So it happens...
  - aurareturn 2y ago
    Ok, if more than 1 person needs to check the AI system, then this TV station will rehire some workers. My point stands though.
    - Hatrix 2y ago
      No more TV stations. No TV jobs. It will eventually be individual AI presenting whatever content you want in whatever form.
      - aurareturn 2y ago
        Will the AI conjure up fake live news? Fake sporting events? Fake human opinion shows? We build AI to serve humans. We don't build AI to serve other AIs.
        Hatrix 2y ago
        Whatever content you want. If you want fake, you get fake. If you want real-time live content then you get that. Maybe you want 25% fake and 75% not fake so you can have fun judging reality. If you want to pay a real human to read content to you then you get that for $$$$.
- fithisux 2y ago
  And the revenue will be divided by 20+ times.
PittleyDunkin 2y ago
I tend to think than tech replacing jobs is good for everyone in the long term, but I still worry very deeply about the short term. I believe that welfare systems help us weather otherwise unstable economic climates, and decades of slashing this have left us vulnerable to highly unstable financial forces.
- jmward01 2y ago
  It is the rate of change that matters. Given time these disruptions would be integrated into society, but right now it is happening so fast that people can't adapt. If you are mid career and your whole field gets taken you really have nothing left. This just happened to my neighbor (graphics arts) and it is only going to accelerate. Stopping things in their tracks isn't the answer because it isn't realistic. The only answer I can come up with is that we need to start making labor more scarce by reducing the work week and giving huge incentives to have people go back to school every few years. The likelihood of either of those suggestions happening though is exactly 0.
sans_souse 2y ago
So, is there a market now for human-authored news sites? Are are people really so oblivious?
k310 2y ago
Someone suggested the real Reddit link below. > I clicked on it and the site seems to mirror reddit, but if you forward the link it changes it to redtit. yes, red tit. and if the person clicks on it the flashing VIRUS ON YOUR PHONE CRAP POPS UP. Not sure how this happened. Better safe than sorry. https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1guhsm4/well_this_is_it_boys_i_was_just_informed_from_my/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1guhsm4/well_this_...

4 points by notRobot 2y ago

I have an unpopular theory. I think AI will bring more jobs. Take this Reddit post for example. If 20 people can be replaced by 1 AI system and 1 manager, then it must mean one can create new TV stations a lot cheaper. So cheap in fact, that many entrepreneurs can look at the math and determine that there is room to create 50 new TV stations. Each TV station can hire 1 person to overlook the AI system. Thus, 20 jobs lost and 50 new jobs created. The problem is that in the intermediate time frame, there will be more pain as people get laid off due to AI automation, but haven't figured out how to use AI yet.

theGeatZhopa 2y ago
this can't be stated like this :) If 20 people can be replaced by 1 AI system, then to create 50 new TV stations exactly 1 AI system is needed. AI is heavy-mix-rotating the videos. Checking needs to be done once, after that the content can be used everywhere, because its checked & approved by one. I see dark times coming for certain jobs and branches. My father still saying its a hype - I say: its not a hype anymore, when there's so much money put into. If you see it as a game, it's inescapeable, that among hundreds and thousands of game-players, one or the other find something really usefull. The "law of big numbers" in small. So it happens...
- aurareturn 2y ago
  Ok, if more than 1 person needs to check the AI system, then this TV station will rehire some workers. My point stands though.
  - Hatrix 2y ago
    No more TV stations. No TV jobs. It will eventually be individual AI presenting whatever content you want in whatever form.
    - aurareturn 2y ago
      Will the AI conjure up fake live news? Fake sporting events? Fake human opinion shows? We build AI to serve humans. We don't build AI to serve other AIs.
      - Hatrix 2y ago
        Whatever content you want. If you want fake, you get fake. If you want real-time live content then you get that. Maybe you want 25% fake and 75% not fake so you can have fun judging reality. If you want to pay a real human to read content to you then you get that for $$$$.
fithisux 2y ago
And the revenue will be divided by 20+ times.

PittleyDunkin 2y ago

I tend to think than tech replacing jobs is good for everyone in the long term, but I still worry very deeply about the short term. I believe that welfare systems help us weather otherwise unstable economic climates, and decades of slashing this have left us vulnerable to highly unstable financial forces.

jmward01 2y ago
It is the rate of change that matters. Given time these disruptions would be integrated into society, but right now it is happening so fast that people can't adapt. If you are mid career and your whole field gets taken you really have nothing left. This just happened to my neighbor (graphics arts) and it is only going to accelerate. Stopping things in their tracks isn't the answer because it isn't realistic. The only answer I can come up with is that we need to start making labor more scarce by reducing the work week and giving huge incentives to have people go back to school every few years. The likelihood of either of those suggestions happening though is exactly 0.

sans_souse 2y ago

So, is there a market now for human-authored news sites? Are are people really so oblivious?

k310 2y ago

Someone suggested the real Reddit link below. > I clicked on it and the site seems to mirror reddit, but if you forward the link it changes it to redtit. yes, red tit. and if the person clicks on it the flashing VIRUS ON YOUR PHONE CRAP POPS UP. Not sure how this happened. Better safe than sorry. https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1guhsm4/well_this_is_it_boys_i_was_just_informed_from_my/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1guhsm4/well_this_...