Generative AI will wipe out many jobs. No, it can't create true art but it will efficiently and cheaply replace all those art-adjacent tasks that actually pay the bills so creative people can live. People who deny this by pointing out minor flaws (ex. the hands look weird) have apparently never worked for a large corporation. "Good enough and essentially free" will win every single time.
I'm curious if in your experience as a web developer, you think there's a way to carve out new roles, and new jobs for creatives? I wonder if maybe there's some opportunity around the corner. What's you opinion?
I mean, that's the line many will hold, that like most past technical innovations it will obsolete some jobs and create new ones. Nobody really knows. But my gut instinct right now is that in terms of development (ex. coding) generative AI will reduce the number and quality of jobs. For example, instead of a business in North America hiring 5 full-time devs, maybe they only hire 2, and they are expected to use AI to be more productive. Another possibility is that that theoretical business hires no developers at all and just farms out the AI-cleanup work to a task queue of offshore developers in India. Yes, there will still be high level engineering and architecture roles, but there will be fewer of these jobs available, particularly for those without advanced degrees, etc. and without the lower-end dev jobs, the bottom rungs of the ladder are gone.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot as AI will take the kind of jobs I got when I was starting out as a cartoonist. It will also take some of the work I do now and I’m going to have to adapt. So I’ll do that, focus on being more human, and try and help other creative people do the same.
Generative AI will wipe out many jobs. No, it can't create true art but it will efficiently and cheaply replace all those art-adjacent tasks that actually pay the bills so creative people can live. People who deny this by pointing out minor flaws (ex. the hands look weird) have apparently never worked for a large corporation. "Good enough and essentially free" will win every single time.
I'm curious if in your experience as a web developer, you think there's a way to carve out new roles, and new jobs for creatives? I wonder if maybe there's some opportunity around the corner. What's you opinion?
I mean, that's the line many will hold, that like most past technical innovations it will obsolete some jobs and create new ones. Nobody really knows. But my gut instinct right now is that in terms of development (ex. coding) generative AI will reduce the number and quality of jobs. For example, instead of a business in North America hiring 5 full-time devs, maybe they only hire 2, and they are expected to use AI to be more productive. Another possibility is that that theoretical business hires no developers at all and just farms out the AI-cleanup work to a task queue of offshore developers in India. Yes, there will still be high level engineering and architecture roles, but there will be fewer of these jobs available, particularly for those without advanced degrees, etc. and without the lower-end dev jobs, the bottom rungs of the ladder are gone.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot as AI will take the kind of jobs I got when I was starting out as a cartoonist. It will also take some of the work I do now and I’m going to have to adapt. So I’ll do that, focus on being more human, and try and help other creative people do the same.
Good take. I've been thinking about how to make our work more "human." How do you think you'll do that? Would "human-made" fetch a premium value?
Who knows? I’m going to just have to try and figure it out as I go along.
Same