Comment by The_Colonel
3 years ago
AI will make many, but not all, artists redundant.
As usual, the lower skill/value work will be automatized sooner. Platforms like fiverr will probably suffer a lot, but so will many "for hire" artists. High value work will remain to be exclusive for humans.
Many high value artists (programmers ...) started as low value and worked themselves up. But if the low value segment is eaten up by AI then the path will be destroyed as well. I wonder if this will make classical education more valuable (after graduation you're starting as high value producer) and further increase class division.
I don't think education has anything to do with this. AI tools are pretty easily accessible to anyone and you don't need a "classical education" to wield them.
If anything, I think the necessity of education is going to be weakened further and more quickly in the next decade.
I think they point they were making was that a job as a lower-skill artist was a potential on-ramp to a job as higher-skill artist.
It isn’t obvious at this point what the skill ceiling is, on using AI tools, since they’ve only been around for a couple months.
What a nice sounding dystopian future you've described there.
What's dystopian about it?
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> I wonder if this will make classical education more valuable (after graduation you're starting as high value producer)
I haven't noticed a correlation between formal education and the people that I would describe as "high value producers". That could be a bias because the median person without a degree doesn't get hired at all, but if we're removing mid-tier and below devs from the work pool, that's going to eliminate most of the people I know with CS or SE degrees.
> I haven't noticed a correlation between formal education and the people that I would describe as "high value producers".
I agree, but I would argue that people without formal education have to usually work their way up.
Basically, if I'm a high school drop out, then I'm very unlikely to land a job at FAANG right away. Quite possibly I will have to start in some low value job to get some credibility. But if AI eats most of these jobs, then it also removes the possibility for the high school drop outs to move up.