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People expect "coming for our jobs" to look like our work being automated directly.

It doesn't.

It looks like the very kind of job no longer paying the bills because it's been devalued, sidelined, or the economics of something nearby changed a ton.

To automate something you _change the world to make it automatable_.

Paris Marx (@[email protected])

robots can’t even make pizza properly and the tech bros want us to believe they’re coming for our jobs, lol https://www.outkick.com/robot-pizza-start-up-shuts-down-because-they-couldnt-keep-cheese-from-sliding-off/

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You don't make a carrot-cutting machine that can handle all the random shapes carrots come in. You make a variety of carrots that grows straight, you make a soil mix that's mostly sand, and you plant using extremely regular spacing and density.

Then the problem becomes how to cut the now pretty uniform carrots and reject the "bad" ones.

Same goes for any automation: you don't make a computer "do art", you devalue the concept of art itself, you muck up the relationships between artists and everyone else. You screw up licensing and the concept of credit for work. Then, you can have computer generated imagery for a low cost API token.

@aredridel I feel like the proponents of “ai art” don’t understand what art even is. Art isn’t pretty images to decorate stuff with. I don’t deny that it’s possible to use “ai” to make art, but most “ai artists” are definitely not doing that.