How are we going to adapt to a world run by humans and machines together? Professions are going to change or become obsolete. There’s a reddit post by a 3D artist who claimed that their job was taken over by AI overnight:
I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney over night. : r/blender
I am not an artist anymore, nor a 3D artist. Rn all I do is prompting, photoshopping and implementing good looking pictures. The reason I went to be a 3D artist in the first place is gone.
There are jobs that people deeply love and find meaning in. And these jobs are going to change. They’ll definitely change in the short term.
I don’t want to make “art” that is the result of scraped internet content, from artists, that were not asked. However its hard to see, results are better than my work.
And as an artist if you’re someone who cares about quality it is unsettling to see that the quality is also higher when AI is doing the work for you. So it becomes difficult to justify why it shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.
Because of the way our industries work, the demand for AI generated content is definitely going to go up in the foreseeable future. And that means that humans will lose out in this race. In most areas we optimize for speed and efficiency and robots are much better than us humans at that. But over time I think that there might be general preference for human created content and we’ll see again a rise in the demand for human created content. But I don’t yet know how much time it’ll take.