This Slashdot post highlights the personal stories of creative professionals who have lost their jobs or seen their livelihoods threatened due to the rise of artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT. Illustrators, copywriters, voice actors, and graphic designers have experienced being replaced by AI-generated content, often without consent or fair compensation.
For example, illustrators report companies using AI to replicate their style, leading to fewer jobs and lower wages, while voice actors describe unauthorized use of their voices in AI platforms, resulting in lost work and lengthy battles to regain control.
The phenomenon will impact other professions no doubt. Anyone who is able to create IP of some sort is potentially at risk of it being subsumed by AI into its corpus of knowledge. Simplistically speaking one could try to build a moat by not share their best ideas with AI, keep that off the grid.
Yet that may not be enough to save the person's job as one commentor has astutely noted: AI is being hired everywhere under the name Good Enuff. If you're not perfect, AI doesn't have to be either. And AI will work 24/7/365 without bitching about all that needy shit humans require. Like pay raises, sleep, time off, vacations, sick pay, lunch breaks, and retirement funds.
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