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its their loss! It will be backfired for them. Time to get a better job and dont go back even if they asked. Good luck! get another writer with college degree.
I remember seeing it put succinctly: I wanted AI to do my boring tasks while I get to draw and write. But all these companies are doing is developing AI to draw and write while I still do all the boring tasks.
AI doing chores might be coming soon (either next year or more?)...but their main focus is to let AI Draw and Write first for don't even know reason. 😢
It's like the whole thing with AI supposedly meant to help with the others things so you can focus on your arts and such, but now it's being used to produce it. Forever gonna hate AI when it's used for the fuck of it.
Welcome to our world! I'm a translator of over 40 years who lost my job to AI in 2018. When I say "I", I mean everyone who used to make a living translating. Just as people didn't care about us, they won't care about you. Sad but true.
I am so so sorry. How is the translation sector doing now?? I guess, it's mostly down to court approved translators who can translate documents with an official stamp..
The problem is that this automation with AI is destroying the quality of things too, I study chemistry, doing research I have already found articles that could kill people!
@mirimariana I heard of someone getting posioned because they ate a mushroom that was described as "safe" in a mushroom guide book. The book was AI generated.
It is a real problem. The sheer volume of AI generated "academic" and "journalistic" content is causing moderation of said content to become totally overwhelmed, which is leading to a bunch of nonsense information being released into the wild and it's ruining everything it touches.
@@invaderjoshua6280 right? if the world is going to shit and mega corporations rule over our lives, then at least let me have a cyberware arm or something...
This is actually nearly identical to what happened to me. I was a photographer, photobasher/editor/graphic designer for a couple of companies. My best client was a company that does RV storage and rentals, and at the turn of the new year of last year (2024) they stopped calling me in. They started taking phone camera pictures and using AI instead of me. Prior to this, they valued my skills highly, they had me travel out of state with flight / travel / lodging paid, and they had me visit several lots to do sometimes a dozen units a session. And then I was ghosted come January 2023. If you're wondering, no, their business doesn't seem to be doing great anymore! If they change their minds, they'll know where to find me. And as consumers of products and services, we should not be afraid to be loud and give these companies a piece of our mind. This is tragic and so awful for the economy. We are all hurting here.
If it makes you feel better I boycott all companies that use AI for marketing instead of actual creatives. And I know I'm not alone. Hopefully things start looking up for you, don't lose your creative spark just because a bunch of socially inept computer scientist losers decided that developing AI and feeding it a bunch of stolen creative work was a great idea.
Pics taken with phone and enhanced with AI. the idea makes me want to vomit. Those people really think “artists are SO stupid, these shitty photos we generated are literally the same as what professionals do”
It's the ghosting that really hurts. They know they are a major part of your income and they cant even tell you so you can start looking for other clients or rearrange your budget. So many psychopaths.
This makes me want to cry, honestly. I have always loved creative fields and how many artists and writers affect our world with their works. I've wanted to polish my skills in writing and drawing, but in this day and age it's more of an uphill battle than ever. We went from being exploited by corporations to being tossed aside for a heartless copy-cat "artificial intelligence". I feel so sorry for you as much as I feel sorry for my aspirations being stumped by greed and cold-hearted machines trying to mimic our feelings and ways of expression.
Never, ever give up your creativity! It is going to get harder to get paid for art, but art is going to become more vital and in demand than ever in the oversaturated field of AI generated slop.
Still try to write, still try to draw. AI sucks for the creative world, but even if writing and illustration aren't your main job, they can still be wonderful expressive outlets that bring you immense joy. If you don't view them as 'must make money' they can still be wonderful hobbies that help you feel enriched as a person.
AI articles have been the reason I started buying books again. I go online looking for good, accurate, nuanced information, and get a bunch of long meandering articles full of shallow repetitive junk and misleading information. As soon as I detect I'm reading an AI article, I basically blacklist the entire site it's a part of. Damn waste of my time when I'm trying to learn something.
its sad really..... back to 10 year ago, internet is full of blog. people write new interesting stuff. now when googling i only find crap. youtube is the last one
I’ve been working as a 3D modeler for over ten years and have done hundreds of commissions. Over time, I’ve watched the game industry pipeline slowly fall apart. Last year, more and more clients started sending me AI-generated concept art, skipping the need to hire professional concept artists. Now, some of them are even giving me AI-generated 3D models to tweak for way less money. Honestly, I feel like I’m next on the chopping block. Once AI models get good enough at retopology-which might just be a few months away-I’m probably out of the game too.
You could perhaps learn the AI 3D tools and create a portfolio with them. Then get hired in a company as the AI 3D person who gets the meshes done with AI. You could then always tweak the models if there are issues, with your skills. Dunno, would that make sense..??
I've been wondering about this area. Game assets tend to fall into specific categories and ideas and styles get recycled over and over. Doing this stuff manually is incredibly time-consuming, and AI will steamline the processes by a factor so huge it's almost unfathomable.
Graphic artist/illustrator here - moved entirely to fine art (painting) as I have not found a job in my field for about a year now. Even the freelance jobs are just ... not there.
If you're a human, then you have *no* chance in any field. Digital algorithms can work thousands of times faster, and they don't require payment, vacations, breaks, nor benefits. Face it... humans are simply inefficient, ineffective, and mostly obsolete. Ultimately, they will become the caretakers--the schlaves--of the wealthy people's algorithms. That's it, though; nothing special.
@@Ascendance1992 I am a portrait artist. It's a big photography business, yes. Not a large market for traditional paint mediums. Especially not with the rise of thick body printing that can produce painted texture on stretched canvas, allowing photography studios to print the portraits out in a painted style. (Or, for example, pop your faces onto some famous old art.) I Wish people had money to burn on oil paintings. They can last centuries, look better then anything printed when you see them in person, and gain value over time. Unfortunately, I get maybe three commissions a year, and that isn't enough to live on. :(
Dude this genuinely sad I just started colege in 2024, I'm studying to be an electrical enginner and its frustrating to see how many people around me have their grades suported by AI, a few days ago my friend came up with an AI power point presentation for a project we had, I actually enjoy making power points and not gonna lie that kinda hurt for me. The "what is the point" thoughts flood my mind after every test, with my only comfort being the idea that it will all pay of in the long run... I cant even Imagine how you feel, a job like that isnt just income but part of your routine, anybody with a routine can tell you how frustrating it is to break your regular routine, wish you a good 2025 bro...
See it as an opportunity. This is just this generations part of Change like when the internet came out 30 years ago. There's lots of AI resources available. Take a look at how their using AI in electrical grids. That could be you.
@@khanaliqasim1757 That's a gross misreprensation of reality. Yes some rare people are being absolutely carried by AI but what's really important is the use you're making of it. Making a powerpoint presentation or a report is not an engineer's favorite task, for most of us we enjoy solving problems and learning things. So in that way AI is just a time saver. I work in quantum computing which is a headache and a half to learn and AI was a huge helper in simplifying complex concepts. See AI like a tool, people that want to learn will have their learning experience improved. People who doesn't will just see a shortcut. Reliance on AI is really field dependant sometimes it's good sometimes it's bad, but at the end as the video says if you have truly something to add with your presence you'll find something. It may be hard but it's rough for everyone, when it's not AI it's the economy or simply nepotism. Also to answer Juan don't give up, your field is appreciated and take what is useful for you in this environnment. I, too, was against using AI for homeworks but let me tell you that cheaters are everywhere in life and it's unfair but what you need to do is always grow up and do your best. Enjoy college once it's over you'll probably miss it in some way.
If it gives you any reassurance, AI is horrible at both writing fiction and nonfiction, but just in different ways. With fiction, all it can write is generic prose that sounds hesitant with themes that are way too heavy-handed and preachy. It also tells too much rather than showing, and not even in a good sense at all. With argumentative non-fiction, the writing is also generic and never has any strong convictions (because it's AI, so of course it wouldn't). Humans are better suited for both because human writing isn't hesitant there's real intent behind it that can be executed way better than any AI writing. There's a video by Carl Duncan titled, "What Writers Can Do That AI Can't" and I recommend watching that.
@@mosttafazahid826youre naive if you think ai wont better and circumvent this. Ai improves exponentially. Snd even current ai is still better than like 80% of humans, probably more. Its so depressing
@bootlegshakira No it won't. No matter what happens, it'll never have the same fierce unapologetic writing that humans can create. And even if it does, it will never know how to connect emotionally with readers. It doesn't know the human psyche as well as a human instinctively does. AI simply can't bridge gaps with emotional and thematic significance. It'll always be emotionally distant no matter what.
They dehumanized us artists for years and they are dehumanizing us more with AI. I am about to graduate college with a graphic design degree into a world that will never take me.
dude, you work (or will work) the same job my dad has. he's also a graphic designer or digital editor for websites and other stuff, but ai dogwater is slowly taking his job away. he's been getting less and less requests over the past few years. our family is already having a hard time financially, and ai is just straight up ruining us. genuinely actually so sad
how can the ai decide what to design though? Anyone could have drawn the nike logo but it takes a good eye for design and understanding of the target audience to design it.
@Shelly-Manifest the AI litterly steals the design. Look up how AI art bots works. It scans the internet and copy and pastes and glues together a bunch of art that already exists. Look up videos that say "ai stole my art" and you can see how people have litterly found their work stolen by AI. No one consented their work to this
@@UnknownString123 can you please elaborate? A lot of design work initially was easy to do and simple looking. But most of the time it depended on what to design not how to design it.
As an artist what makes me angry is that there’s a lot of people supporting Ai, and not just that but people who never bothered to be creative before Ai now claim to be artists, writers, musicians, etc… And no one cares about the people that actually love these fields because creativity was never valued enough. The rest of the world will only worry when Ai starts affecting other industries and their jobs.
this is what i've been saying. our society doesn't place enough value on creative endeavors like art and writing. they view it as just a silly little hobby completely ignoring the amount of artists and writers are behind so much of what they experience every day from billboards to commercials to movies to youtube videos. so many people just don't consider them real jobs. it's so depressing
I support ai as an information tool and support blender physics engine and stuff like that But not as an art form. If you let the ai do the entirety of the work then the product or project will equally be soulless and awful.
@@ggmrgameanddrawnow that is the point. Most people don’t put thought into this. Almost everything around is designed by an artist, websites, icons, clothes
YES, this is the thing that really pisses me off so much. People that literally never even wanted to put in the time to build their skill now claim to be artists - and a lot of them are actually getting tricked and getting commissions from it...genuinely annoys me so much.
@@Nanancay Over the past year or so I've been seeing a concerning amount of AI at artist markets now. and people will buy that stuff legitimately thinking it's a drawing, painting, photograph, etc. I've seen t shirts, mugs, koozies, tote bags, basically anything that can be printed on. really sad
As an academic researcher with papers and books published I can fully relate to you. I have seen how AI has invaded social media writing, technical writing and even creative writing. It is already taking over academic writing. I estimate in 3 - 5 years most academic articles and books will be fully made by AI, rendering most of my work useless. Add to that AI mixed with VR teaching most classes. I will probably have to become a plumber or a farmer, or a carpenter in order to make a living. Nothing wrong with that, all jobs dignifies, but in my case is a massive waste of individual and collective knwoledge and expérience. Everybody is so excited and giddy with all the obvious advantages AI is bringing to our lives, but nobody wanna talk about the donwside. The massive loss of jobs. The downgrading of human creativity. The widening social and economic gap between the few winners and the many left behind.
the part that really kills me is how we all see it coming but the govt is still lagging behind, like they should be proactively coming up with solutions for this
Imagine 20 years from now. We'll have a whole generation of kids who were told from the day they were born that 'it's pointless to learn art, music, writing, because AI can just instantly generate something for you.' It's so deeply dystopian.
It isn’t killing creativity as a whole, it’s just killing creativity in the mainstream media. Support local artists and look at indie productions, creativity is an innate part of the human brain, and nothing external can get rid of it permanently
@Mysterymeateater Thanks for stating this. There is a massive community of people who still outskill AI and all it takes to become one of them is extraordinary time and effort. The most AI has done is raise the bar for entry, but the ceiling is still determined by humans. I can't imagine a world where the artistic skill ceiling isn't determined by human art.
@@hillehai It's even worse. AI will not just replace creative jobs. It will replace humans as a whole. Idk what the furure will look like, but my prediction is mass poverty.
@Mysterymeateater Well what AI certainly can do is remove all monetization opportunities for creators. Businesses dont need any boundaries pushed or any new ideas being made, they just need their product. It ensures that artists will no longer be able to dedicate themselves to their art and be supported by it, but rather have their creativity be sidelined into hobby territory.
I think an imminent problem of this is that, if you keep replacing people with AI and force them to change fields (which requires going back to studying) or just take lower paying jobs, then who's gonna pay for your stuff? If an increasing chunk of the population is making less and less money, and then you factor in inflation and recession, then this is a bullet train going full speed towards a precipice. Millennials having less purchasing power than previous generations has been a known issue for over a decade now, and I feel this trends of replacing as many jobs as possible with AI is just going to make things so much worse until it inevitably crashes to the ground.
Oligarchs who support "social democracy" are really smart about this. The countries they control appease the working class with scraps just enough so they dont revolt.
@@al3xb0t2 They're only benefitting now, but later down the line, when people have no jobs at all and are basically doing nothing, money isn't going to circulate. It's like choking out your veins and stopping blood from flowing into other places. Who's going to buy the majority of your products, other rich people? That'll last a couple months. The economy is going to crash if they keep going down this path, greed can make someone stupid, and the payoff is the hardest fall one can face. The business owner's are going to suffer, shareholders and stakeholders are going to suffer. Everyone is going to suffer because of their actions. Then, they'll come crawling and crying to the people they abandoned, begging us to work for them again.
Ever since I was a kid, I've always been praised for my creativity and my writing talent. Writing and drawing are the only things I enjoy doing that I'm good at, and if I already had a really small chance at achieving something with that, now I feel like I don't even have a chance anymore. I feel lost, and really fear for the future. I despise AI, when my school made us take an AI course I refused to do any activity within it and just passively existed in the classroom, often drawing instead of paying attention, because why would I care about it? In my mind, it's nothing more than a wall that makes it impossible for me to reach my goal. I really don't know what to do. I'm not good at most things, and I just know that my neurodivergence will just make finding a job in the future even harder. I really wish more people would realise how wrong AI is used in this kind of way.
Totally get where you're coming from. The bright side is that I do think everyone is getting tired of AI stuff, so there's is a growing market of people who are looking for authentic human creativity
@@official_awei I'm glad of that. I hope the AI issue will be gone on the most part in a few years, because no machine can recreate the way human creations feel in my opinion :D
@@official_awei based on recent news, tech companies have already fed almost all of the human-generated content (literally thousands of years of history, art, and knowledge) to Ai…. And it still sucks. I know it’s bad for you now, but the future looks bright. From this point on, the evolution of Gen ai will slow down significantly, and when investors will notice that, you may expect a giant crash of ai industry
I’m a small disabled artist, I cannot take on regular jobs due to my health, drawing is the only source of income I have…. Or had, I suppose. Ever since ai art has become readily available I have not gotten a single commission, not one (actually I’ve gotten one, but didn’t get payed in the end). I’m not an established artist, I haven’t made a name for myself yet and now it’s even harder than before. Edit: for some reason RUclips deletes all my comments in which I try to link or mention any of my sites (since a few people were interested, thank you so so much btw it means the world!)…
I'm really sorry bro. It's like any job that's related to the arts is bound to be doomed within the coming decade. Photography, drawing, painting, and even making music. This will only encourage people to be less creative, and make people consumers instead of creators. And worst of all, there's nothing we can do. Hopefully we will survive ❤
We are actually not as powerless as we think. These things are not just happening to us, there are people out there (tech CEOs, business owners) doing it to us. Technology doesnt just advance itself, there are people responsible for building it.@@BlitzIV
I feel your pain. A third of my department was let go the past year because of AI. As the tech gets better and better I fear I may be next. My parents' basement is looking mighty inviting right now and I'm over 30....
At least you have parents and basement. I wasted so much energy to change my career at 29 and become developer and now it's crazy hard to find a job and I don't have family or a house :)
@dw4525 The bulk of their work was data entry type work where forms and other documents filled out by hand had to be entered into the company database. Thankfully my duties are a bit more broad and I have a bit of seniority but I feel like it's only a matter of time before AI catches up.
I've worked in graphic design for the last 8 yrs. The industry is dying. This whole thing took a devastating toll on my health. I'm now shifting career paths ... Sad that this is all because of greedy corporations.
@@rainofstars5809 everywhere???? ive made a large amount of money doing comissions from just posting my art on discord fandom spaces, actual artists and art lovers dont gaf about ai crap and will pay good dollars for high quality custom made art
@@JurnalTopiHitam that's not a community thats capitalist rats trying to leach off of your labour, that's like saying that a thief is part of the carpenter community because he stole your couch
Man I'm really sorry what happened. I liked and subscribed, I hope that somehow helps. I've seen what's coming but there are also opportunities that can arise from this, despite the setbacks that I didn't expect. I know a freelancer who are working multiple jobs because he can automate most of his work through AI or automation tools. I'm trying to lean on the same path but I'm not very techy since it varies on the field. There's one automation called Workbeaver where you teach it the task you want to do by showing and teaching it like a human and it'll do it for you apparently. I haven't tried it yet but it's been on my list. If it works that can bring freelancers more opportunities as well rather than a setback. I hope you find something that works out, maybe RUclips? Wishing you more views.
Nothing is stopping you from doing a hobby even if AI can do it to / is more efficient. People still love watching other people play chess even though AI is already much much better than humans at it
@@YaselGuadianaa imagine being such a sad pathetic excuse of a human being you cant even leave your comfort zone for a few minutes a day and learn something new
I'm in my late sixties. When I was a kid, there was a comic book series titled "Magnus, Robot Fighter." Set in 4000 AD, robots do virtually everything for humans and, being sentient, with human traits, many of them become evil. Magnus was trained to use his superhuman powers to protect humans against rogue robots and humans who used normal robots for evil purposes. Reading the Magnus comics as a 10-year-old kid, I wondered if humanity would have to wait until 4000 AD to wind up with robot masters and humans who use robots (read: AI) to subjugate other humans. At this point, I think I was right at the ripe old age of 10 to wonder about just how long it would take for robots to rule our lives. I don't envy you, Alex. But I'm betting on you and other young people to pick up the gauntlet and beat back the bots as Magnus did in those comic books 60 years ago.
Even the “incorrect” ways that writers revise their work is a part of their style and creativity. It’s unfortunate that AI will be replacing that. Thanks for sharing your story, good luck with your future endeavors.
im a starbucks barista that got my math degree this year with the intentions of being a teacher and I blame AI for my disinterest in education. I saw my education peers making lesson plans with AI, and it just felt like the kids were being taught by the AI, only for the kids to use AI to make their work easier. There's no teaching between humans in some classrooms now its just AI everywhere.
AI is like the calculator. Teachers ban calculators but in the real world of jobs you just use one when you have to calculus. It’s better if the kids can use AI to do their calculus homework. That way they can spend time with more relevant things like play and getting part time jobs. P.S. I am a mathematician and use AI to start quantum technology startups so I can have longer coffee breaks.
As a professional math teacher - I can assure you after teaching 30 years I ain’t going anywhere anytime soon - and I’m paid VERY well for what I do - the human experience is needed in real teaching
@@davedsilvaAI is a crutch that keeps people complacent and instill the same learned helplesness as a calculator does. Heck, I've seen plenty of my classmates back in HS that just refused to calculate complex math without a calculator, and when faced with tests without them just blanked
I have a huge dislike for Ai music, I prefer it done by people who can make mistakes. Cuz I love mistakes and we should embrace ‘em:3 unlike the *"perfect"* Ai stuff..
@@NEUVILLETTE500 Yes... but employers don't care. I worked for employers, not listeners... Mostly because music was my only source of income a d I HAD to work for people and companies with money. Otherwise I would still be a musician. It's impossible to be a freelancer artist anymore - UNLESS you have a community that wants to help you.
I deeply wanted to become a media composer - mainly to compose for video games. I was fine with making less than my peers - I can be frugal - as long as I got to be a part of creative processes while doing something I loved. That dream is completely crushed now, and I've frankly lost so much faith in the world ever since generative AI became such a huge thing suddenly. I can definitely empathize, and I hope you will continue to write music despite it all.
@@hillehai Unfortunately, I have no hope. I went months without work, and the only job I got was from people asking me to fine-tune their AI-generated music. Now, I'm a video editor, and even that is at risk. If I lose this very last thing, then I have nothing left. I literally transcribed and arranged over 1000 songs. I literally wrote over 100 songs and worked for about 4 games. Now... nothing.
i'm an 18 year old who wants to be an animator. i am not sure if that is a good career to work for anymore. but if i ever do get a career in animation i am going to try to start my own fcking business, because screw soulless AI-obsessed corporations
Well, here I am. Another teenager. I really enjoy studying languages, writing texts and stuff ("classical studies mind", heh), but now.... I don't know anything about my future. I'm starting to feel like my hard work won't be worth it...
Jeez, same here.. Wanting to learn animation and other stuff, hoping to get a job in it when im older, but it just seems kinda helpless, like none of us are going to make it :(
@@mochii_fuzy27 i feel so bad for y'all aspiring animators, although animation is not for me, i'd like to be a showdirector for animation and having that exist of ai slop is just, ew
Same here. I have a small writing/publishing services agency, and my regular clients are either writing books with AI, or writing books with AI and asking us to "humanize" the text (which is honestly shit money). I'll be closing the agency to start writing my own books, courses, and just focus on passive income. AI has been catastrophic for writers, but we also get older, and chasing after clients gets really tedious really fast. Good luck with whatever you choose to do, creative minds always find a way to prevail!
As a teenager with multiple creative hobbies, I am terrified for the future. I once had a dream of becoming a famous author but now, with the advancement of AI, I now have days where I think "What is the point?" But I do feel like It's important to continue doing the things you love, the only way to fight AI is to be creative and not give up.
FWIW, I can’t imagine AI replacing fiction authors. Why would anybody want to read a book generated by AI? I think "copywriting" jobs are in trouble because copyrighting is sorta designed to be generic and only exists to fulfill a business purpose. But art is different, it’s about human connection. I have no interest in listening to AI-generated music or watching AI-generated TV shows. So I wouldn’t stop pursuing your creative hobbies! If anything, talented creatives will be even more in-demand in a world filled with AI slop.
I also hope to be a great author one day and write fantasy books! Luckily, AI hasn't yet taken over fantasy and fiction books. I mean have you seen the boring, mundane, generic, monotonous, lifeless, worthless pieces of trash that AI generators call "stories?" Part of a good book is the plot! And if it has the most plain plot ever, even with millions of bells and whistles, literally devices, fancy vocabulary, it is worth nothing! Hence, AI writing is worth NOTHING. (yes I am quite distressed) Besides, the wiring is so stiff.
Same dude, I'd love to be an author but don't know where I'd find small writing gigs to get me by until I can get stuff published... hang in there writers, we've got to keep fighting. Our words matter!
I wish generative AI models had just never been invented. We were doing just fine without them and having creative work meant either supporting creatives or honing our skills. Now my soul feels so shattered with everything that goes on in the world with AI
AI is never issue, its the prick corporate is the issue.... for example AI can be used for correcting grammar instead of writing novel. image drawn by hand is feel refreshing instead of AI wrecky image.
@@GreyfeeshbackBut that’s the philosophical issue of opening the Pandora’s box: once you open it, there’s no going back. Yes, the solution is to choose human skill over AI, but once that option is open, greedy people will use and abuse it. That’s why OP says they wish it was never invented in the first place.
@@theprincemonster7575 you're given essays to write in order to learn some sort of skill - vocabulary, eloquence, critical thinking. Resorting to AI is just wasting your own tuition money, because you don't learn shit. This kind of shortcut might lead you to a friction-less road to getting a grade or a diploma, but with no real skills to back it up there will be no one who'd wanna hire you.
As an artist who’s been drawing as a hobby since I was 10, I totally love that as I’m close to graduating and choosing college all this AI shit happens. If I choose to go to college for art, it will probably just be a waste cause I can’t get a job. Lovely :)
Learning something that you are passionate about is never wrong. I regret choosing the "meta" major when I was in university. All it did was let me graduate into an oversaturated market and I still ended up in a job that not only do I dislike, it also isnt related to my degree at all. It sucks big time. Always do what you love.
nah. any job. if you have low skill, AI will take your job. AI won't take your job as artist if you're smart about it. the more artist not want this as job, the lest competition i have which are good i guess?
Thank you for making this video. I'm so sorry this happened to you There's a really weird defensive attitude out there, a lot of people try hard to defend ai and say that it's great, that we got past the industrial revolution just fine, that ai is not created to replace jobs and that it's barely taking any and people are overreacting and fear mongering. They're wrong. I don't know if they're ignorant or if they just don't care about other people's livelihoods, but this has quietly started a while back and will only get worse unless we hurry up and limit ai use to making memes and vague outlines. It would be another thing if developed nations had really low populations and no one was willing to take jobs. That's not the case. There are millions of us on this earth, overall the population is increasing, and on top of that we're being pushed out of jobs we need. What exactly do these ceos think is going to happen when most people can't earn a living? I know they don't think that far ahead but it's not hard to see that people are going to start getting desperate Again, I'm sorry for what happened. Stay strong
It's going to have to get really painful for a lot of people before most of the west will start to pass that kind of legislation. The incentives are all currently aligned towards putting people out of work, people are often the most expensive part of running a company - if you as a company do not replace jobs with AI, you will get left behind by the companies which do. So even if a business owner has the best of intentions and cares deeply about their people, they will either inevitably run out of money, or have to cut jobs. Moloch strikes again...
“ I want ai to do my laundry so I have more free time to create. I don’t want ai to create for me so I have more time to fit in chores” Or however that went. Rings very true. Not the future anyone wanted.
@@find2hardit’s a figure of speech. it’s more along the lines of “why do we have humans running factory equipment, working long retail shifts, and other low level “simple” jobs where you’re nothing more than a cog in the machine?” the point being as humans we are wired to create, not to stand behind a counter or product production line all day.
It's important to call out "AI" for what it truly is: data tabulator and derivate. Videos such as this one are important to get these opinions heard. "AI" can never truly replace the human soul, especially in creative fields. Just recently, I stumbled upon a web app where the slogan was "Fire your photographer". I found it amusing because this year in 2025 I am going to launch a photography business(NOT ADVERTISING JUST A STATEMENT) . I'll still go through it despite trending "AI". So what if "AI" defeats every human at efficiency? There's more to life than being efficient. They will bet their entire life savings to make "AI" work, but at the end of the day, the results will not be innovative. "AI" is not even the right tool for the creative fields.
I came to comment something similar so I'll just say you said exactly what was on my mind, I am going to take up writing as my pursuit and I am not intimidated by AI at all, I am actually exited about what I can create.
Lots of cope here. How many people on average actually do anything truly innovative? And when they do, how valuable is it to a company in practice? Useful innovations come from a small number of people, not just anybody. AI can already replicate art styles and fuse art styles that took trained artists 10+ years to create. The crazy thing is, this was studied and the average person can't even tell the difference between an AI generated art and that of a real artist. The thing AI is doing even in creative fields is raising the standards of passable work, the degree of creativity needed to stand out is climbing, you had to better than the average a year ago and this year you will have to be even better to compete in the job market. AI video for example is already getting good enough with stuff like Veo2 to work into commercials and severely downsize staff. This trend is not stopping, and not everybody can be in the top 10% of their field.
@@gr8b8m85 I agree. People cope hard and keep moving the goal post as AI gets better. Talking about the human soul is hilarious. Most of my coworkers are just bodies, but they will think they can't be replaced too. lol
Actually this is not "just the way it is". Hate when people say that, especially since this is generative AI crap, which is recent development. We should not be settling for worse just because "well that's just how life works lol". We should speak out about stuff like this and make a change.
I'd say it's an attitude many are sharing these days for good reason. People HAVE been speaking out about AI, but guess what? People don't care. This always happens when a new technology comes out. People speak out about fears of losing their careers, yet the average person not monetarily tied up in that sphere does not care. I don't blame people for taking an, "it is what it is...'' type attitude to AI, because this IS how it goes. Sure the technology is different from those that came before, but the methods in how it takes over is the same. In an example of language translation. Average people aren't going to throw AI out the window so a translator can keep their job, for them the technology presents an amazing convenience and opportunity. They could possibly be able to have fluid conversations with anyone in the world very easily. AI is a can of worms that once opened, is going to be very difficult to close, especially when dealing with the tech giants of today.
largely depends on the content thats being covered. If its just technical information AI make sense. If its an opinion piece than i dont want to read a computer lol.
Because sometimes the technology we as a species have created is capable of providing you with the same utility as a person doing something. Automation is literally the only reason you can even type what you just typed and send it to people.
I'm a law student. I have the luck of studying in a field where there's a lot of government jobs (judges, prosecutors, government work, etc.) and where AI is just not as thorough, and where the human factor is essentially demanded for quality work. Still, the more I hear of AI, the more I hear of students using it to pass, the more I hear of professionals starting to use it, the more I fear not necessarily of law related jobs being replaced, but I fear that there might be a growth of complacency in quality from professionals who start relying on AI because it just does a "good enough" job. The moment that shift happens in fields that can make or break lives in a single decision from one or a group of professionals, like law or medicine, the amount of people who will be wronged might be too much for my mind to bear.
I also have to add another factor of massive luck playing for me : My mom has managed to buy a house. Meaning that even in the worst scenario, I will have a house to return to, somewhere to start over from. Many don't have that. I've known people in high school who wanted to do translation work or some other job that is just done so much cheaper by AI. Those dudes, they most likely won't have anything to return to if they need to.
That sucks you lost your position to AI, but I'm not surprised because a lot of companies are using AI to complete tasks, especially customer service. In the past month, when I've used the chat feature, it doesn't hide it being AI bot. The AI claims to know the answer, but then it admits it is confused and finally connects me to a person
Turkish banks do this a lot (except for losing your card or it being stolen,in that case they connect to a person immediately). And then the AI can't grasp what you said and drive you crazy
@@emilymoontarot8642 More realistic scenario people just give up contacting them and stop using their service because what the hell will AI do in specific situations if it even understands the problem in the first place?
@@official_awei yeah, the AI never has the full context of what the company's systems do, unlike a real person who, if lacking context, can just refer you to some specialist that actually knows. And also real people usually have more context just by themselves. The AI might know it's acting as customer support for a bank that offers bank accounts (duh), but does it have any idea on how to open an account? It might. But what if you're opening an account for your kid? It has absolutely no idea how to help anymore. And don't even begin with edge cases.
I wish for all the success for you and I hope the algorithm actually does its purpose and put your post on the front pages but yeah, keep it up! Make beautiful, genuine content that AI can't replace. Stupid people can go and think AI will replace us or whatever, we keep doing what we are all doing. Keep uploading, take care and I wish you all the success.
A friend of mine was working for the largest podcast network in the USA (if you think you know them, you probably do). Huge company, massively profitable already - last year they laid of 70% of their video and audio editing staff. Hundreds of well-paid technical jobs, replaced by 2-3 pieces of AI software.
I started college in August 2024, I’m majoring in 2D animation. My ultimate dream is to move to Europe after grad school and start my animation career. Everyone says that the animation industry is plummeting right now, and I see this with my own eyes when I revisit all the RUclips animators I grew up watching, where they are either unemployed or working an undesired jobs. When I saw that AI started making “animation” commercials, I was terrified to say the least. AI art is becoming more and more realistic to artists’ art styles, at this point I have a hard time defining real and AI art. Is this really what big companies want now? Soulless works of art: music, writing, illustrations, and animations? AI can create animations we spend HOURS, DAYS, AND MONTHS working on. AI is evil, it’s taking all of our skills and purposes and make a mockery out of it. I talk so proudly about my future, I know what I want and I will do anything to get there, but I am terrified of AI, I don’t want to end up unemployed (be seen as a leech in my family) or be miserable working a job I never wanted to begin with. This cannot be our future..
Another artist here Honestly, it's so scary to think what will happen with us in the future. I tried to ignore this for a long time, but it became even worse to a point where everyone need to ask to ourself if this is what we wanna keep doing or no Worst part about being a student during this time is that we know we are in a age when we can change carrer and "Save" us from a horrible future, but we don't wanna do it because we love what we do, but the fear is there and our head is a mess
first they convince society that God isn't real. Then if God isn't real, then sous are also not real, only the material is real. if only the material is real, then only money matters. To them and those they convinced: AI art is just as good as human art but is cheaper. It's soulless? But people agree with them that souls don't exist and only the material mattered. This is the world we have built, and it is disastrous
some forms of animation could be done by AI, if I exclude the video generating stuff then possibly 2d puppets,tweening, animating 3d models will become a thing AI can "do", buut specifically for hand-drawn 2d animation, I feel like that's just too complex for AI to make, as theres so many human decisions made there and the AI is not capable of understanding all the methods, tricks etc. just seems too personal to be copied. from your comment it seems like AI is already taking over the animation industry, do you just mean the AI video generating?
Another animation student here. I started college in August 2023. I find everything so bizarre now because I have loved drawing, and creating in general, for my entire life. I remember thinking one day when I was 8-9 years, "I wish more people were artists!" because drawing was so fun and brought me much joy. I wanted others to experience that too. I wish I never wished that. Now everyone is an "artist" and it's horrible.
i just started my job into freelance writing and art. this is genuinely terrifying. art, writing, that's my passion, that's what i want to do with my life. if i don't have that, what is my purpose in life? i don't really want to do anything else, i want to make and create. is my life over before it's even begun?
I will never touch an AI generated product willingly, and never ever choose it over a real person. AI is trash. You have potential its just a matter of finding the right platforms to promote yourself at this stage. Companies can't be trusted due to corporate greed
@@bleepblorbus absolutely agreed. i refuse to touch anything that is ai generated at this point. i've actively stopped using platforms like twitter and instagram as much because i know how bad they are with ai. if you know any good platforms i could promote myself on, it would genuinely be greatly appreciated
Its so annoying to know that the end result will be the decay of the integrity of whatever products these industries are making by choosing to make with AI slop is just that theyll end up gravitating back to the creatives over the AI workflows. Everyone will get bored of their new 'tool' and these companies are hiding that theyre hemmorhaging money incorporating it
theyll get more 'powerful' in some regards, up to a certain extent, but they cant get around the fact that the datasets they train these gen-ai models wont ever get more comprehensive than they already are, since when the debuted the tech when they did, its productions of course began to proliferate all over the internet. The models cannot use its own output to expand on itself, it practically undoes the 'learning' it gained from useful, real input by taking in ai generated imagery or text sequences. Nor do they have a way to flag the stuff As such, so there wont be any way for them to meaningfully scour the internet for useful data anymore either. Its a ticking timebomb of waste in the creatives sphere. Dont stop writing, dont stop making art. The shortsighted choices of stockholders and bigwigs at these megacorps dont reflect how important YOU are as an artist/creator.
I’m gonna try and be a creative (I love drawing and animation), but if they manage to make agi (I personally think it’s not possible with current tech), then where cooked, not just creatives, but every industry. I’m gonna keep trying, but if agi is developed, we should all give up.
@@KaiMaher-jx7qz indie is the way to go and has been for a while. There will always be people who specifically value human creatives, I see this especially strongly in the game development scene. A lot of people love unique projects made by small creative teams, indie projects are still finding success even with the influx of ai slop infecting gaming platforms. Honestly, networking is a huge part of it too. A human ran project can network in ways that ai can't. These big companies have always been looking for ways to screw us over, this is just another step in that process. Leave them behind, there are more places we can flourish, we don't need them to succeed and it's about time they learned that lesson
AI is one of the worst advancements to happen imho. I’m an aspiring artist so I understand exactly how you feel. I will never stop doing art because it’s also part of my identity. I’m not a working artist and am thankful I have a solid non-art job. I also enjoyed writing when I was much younger and did want to try my hand at freelance writing.
My hope is that there will be an increased demand for "human artists/writers/etc" from clients like how "unprocessed food" has become popular again when a long time ago it was the status quo.
@@byenuoya will not happen. since an artists who is good without LLMs becomes even better/faster with. The AI slop you see comes from people who aren't able themselves to write quality stuff. but if you are able too, LLMs just make you way faster. the ones who will refuse to work with AI will just earn much less money. but if you don't care about money and it's just a hobby to you, why who guys even care? the comparison is better if you compare it to virtual art and real art. I know a lot of artists who refused to use photoshop for a decade because they kept saying it's soulless. but they all adapted at some point. same will be true for AI. you hope you will never have to adept to the new environment but at some point there will be no other way.
@@Noqtis Because no one likes the idea of corporations and companies scraping their data to empower models that will compete in the same markets as them. I don't know how this is hard to understand. There's no incentive loop for creatives to continue with their work as the years and decades go by if anyone can scrape their copyrighted works for profit without any of the licensing agreements or copyright that originally protects creatives. It's also highly hypocritical when you have the main perpetrators like OpenAI go out for licensing deals for data they can't access like reddit/pinterest but freely reap the benefits of targeting everyone else because they don't have the means to fight back. Photoshop/kritia/clip studio, or any digital drawing/editing program is inherently different from generative AI and I don't know why you would ever equate the two other than that they're both software you can access. One is a program built without the extensive overreach and use of data and doesn't ever require scraping, while the other is weighted on billions of points of images/data that wouldn't exist or have the quality it does without the scraping. Adapting only works depending on the field you're in. In some cases, it's actually damaging for clients if you're found out to be using generative AI. Otherwise, all this does in reality is flood the market with the average "slop" because that's the whole point of this while simultaneously lowering the amount of creatives/pay for everyone across the board. At least the megacorps gain more leverage as their stock prices go up even at the expense of what is consumed on a daily basis.
Real humans make art with soul, and you can feel it in their compositions and emotional presentation. AI is literally stealing, and even crochet has been manipulated to produce patterns that end up being horrible. When using something like ProCreate for digital art, it is more like a canvas that you can freely edit between layers, like an oil painting with less limitations. AI can't dream like we can, and can't comprehend complex emotions. To take art away from artists just causes mass dissatisfaction and kills the heart of creativity. And for what? Profit. Always profit. Not everyone wants a typical 9 to 5 job, and there needs to be a joy to life, not just survival. Don't even get me started on tech layoffs, unfair call center monitoring, and the VAST array of inappropriate and violent content produced and abused. To think AI will improve society is to forget what real humanity is all about.
I always hear about the projected end result being most people are unemployed and living in tents, just scraping by. But do they just stay like that? They could organize to farm food or use violence to take resources and vengeance. So much of our money is digital, yet there is still plenty of capital within the country and population. One wonders why things can't start being put back together, just without a class of people who contribute nothing and hoard almost everything, just because they have some primitive concept of ownership over vast resources that should only exist to sustain the people.
AI is useful for brainstorming, but anything generated by it feels soulless and lacks individuality. The only thing I use AI for is grammar and spelling correction.
Yes, but you miss one important part: 90% of what human contractors write is also soulless. People who actually have some ideas and interesting thoughts are a small minority.
This is why using AI for job searching is extremely detrimental and these companies dont realize it. It prioritizes cookie cutter candidates over exceptional ones. Companies that overly rely on it are absolutely cooked.
ppl always say that its soulless and i get it its frustrating but honestly human writing is just as soulless at this point. like if u pay like a subscription for an actually good model u can get very high quality at this point. u might have to check for some rndm hallucinations but its still far more effective. also sum shi is just soulless, dont matter whether the slop is made by ai or some dude whos unhappy with his career
I can tell AI generated articles within seconds of reading. it has this wordy, pretentious type of writing that makes the whole thing a slog to read through. although, sadly.. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before it gets better at it.
I feel you…i'm studying communication design with my focus on print media, motion graphics, marketing and 3d modelling. i had to branch out already because i quickly realized AI would take over illustration and motion graphics jobs first. i did my mandatory internship at a small-ish business that does online marketing and publishes an online urban magazine. they hired me to work as an editor, do small journalism-related gigs, motion graphics and website maintenance. the more popular AI got, the more my boss wanted me to ditch the creative parts of the job and focus on website maintenance (which he hated to do because it's boring) and just use AI for writing articles or fake photos so he could focus on his pregnant wife and his private website project. he was very mad when i told him that i would still have to proof-read and tweak AI articles/photos because it meant i wasn't doing website maintenance. i hated it.
This is the paradox of maximum efficiency that is starting to play out. In the long run this is going to be detrimental to society, and civilization as whole.
Fk yea. It's like finding a money tree that regrows money if you pick in moderation, and doesn't regrow if you clean it out. They are cleaning it out w no care about long term. Speed run to failure.
@@official_awei it’s an idea of mine in applying Jevon’s Paradox. On the unintended consequences of an organization in maximizing efficiency. AI here is the resource that is being consumed. I am interested in the direct and indirect consequences of AI will have on society from this angle.
I'm 15, always wanted to be an artist as my career, but I feel like that's almost impossible now with how advanced AI is getting. It's completely demotivating knowing I can't become what I've always loved.
same, and this reality sucks. im doing gcse art. i want to take a level art. it will be pointless economically. i pour so many hours into this and i could be studying something profitable, but i dont want to. i want creativity, but it wont be viable at all for anything other than personal reasons.
I graduated animation college (waste of time) in 2014 and I never imagined everything I learned would be done by computer programs in barely a decade… it’s maddening.
My design director in college is trying to tell us to basically “adapt or die” with AI but in a way that’s like… in his words “Ai is not meant to take your jobs, it’s meant to improve your creative process,” but also entailing how jobs and employers are increasingly asking for students to have some knowledge or expertise in Ai programs for design purposes. Many of the students often lower their heads and give icked out expressions because while we’re sure we know he knows the ethical ramifications and the negative culture built around generative Ai slop, he’s seeing its use cases while we see how awful it has been and continues to be for creatives and the world as a whole. How its affected individual artists, employees being laid off, the current job market rn, the scanning of resumes and ghost jobs, the overabundance and over reliance conflicting as a redundant extra step to the creative process we already have, it just still is baffling me in my final year and honestly bring fear into me that I’ll be forced into using it.
What are you gonna do for your future then? I want to know people that do get replaced or are having trouble what they’re planning or figuring out to work against or in another direction of ai
Well said Alex - only human experiences can’t be replaced by AI. jobs are the social system but growth through experiences are for ourselves and no one can take that from us except ourselves. I think AI can help (or force) us to rethink what being a human really means. It’s certainly an exciting time to live.
I feel ya! I have been fired, for no reason. I have a feeling that AI is going to sweep a lot of areas. The Voice actors in many of the video games are having a difficult time negotiating their contracts to keep AI, from copying their voices and using them for free! It is scary! You take care!
I found a 'music artist' on RUclips who generated their album art, and while yes it looked visually perfect with no errors, I could immediately tell it was AI generated because it just does not have the human touch. You can tell when they take things and shove them in a blender. After that point I was left wondering if they were lazy enough to generate the music too. I guess I could tell more easily because I'm an Artist, but the average person has a shallow understanding of traditional, digital, or CG art. It just makes me sad that thousands of people are getting their work scraped and thieved with no monetary return. Dead artists and Alive artists, both treated like crap because nobody with money wants to pay them for their time or expertise. It's disappointing to hear my mom say I should get into AI generation, when I know it's just taking someone else's hard work, chewing it, and then spitting it back out. Its also disappointing to know that the effort I put into studying drawing, painting, and computer graphics now means nothing. I cant find even an entry level job in video games or film, and people more experienced than me are getting fired out of their positions, replaced by bots. I know I will find another way to survive. Its just sad to me that society has chosen this path.
@@wishihadanickel I thought about learning welding, but it doesn't seem to pay well unless if your doing something like underwater welding or welding somewhere in the middle of nowhere. I would rather do it as a hobby, because like with computer animation, it seems to be treated with little respect. So now I'm contemplating dental hygiene.
I’ve noticed a lot of hypocrisy with AI, artists will speak out against their particular craft getting replaced with AI but will gladly use AI to avoid paying another artist to do whatever craft they personally can’t do, such as self publishing novelists using AI for cover art and to create audiobooks or animators using AI for voice overs and/or music. With that said, there’s also a LOT of AI content farms, so it’s very possible for someone to be posting both music and art that was AI generated.
@@Sanakudou The album i mentioned is "Future Angels (1982)" And yeah I checked it, it turns out most of it is AI generated. Both the Music and the Album Art. Its just disappointing to see.
Yes, it is sad. That it has come to this. Which is also why when I came across a likable RUclips channel (Blue Turtle) that has No AI in video titles, I subscribed. I stayed away from channels that are mainly and exclusively exploiting others with A.I..
I too, lost my job to AI! I was a freelance artist with a few years with a few well-paying continuous customers, and once AI art came out they stopped commissioning me. While I was never directly dropped, their recurring orders simply stopped.
This was the first time I ever saw an AI summary on a RUclips video. It feels purposeful that they chose this to be the only video I’ve seen them do it to.
I use AI as a writing assistant and to brainstorm. I've "fed" the AI scenes I've written and told it to improve them. It invariably makes an inferior copy.
If you can't compete with soulless writing just because it's cheaper, you might want to reflect on what value you were ever providing in the first place.
It depends on what topics are being written about. ChatGPT has often given me responses to questions that seem to have come from a caring or empathetic person. I ask tough questions about specific issues and it instantly gives me nuanced responses, many of which are spot on, with plenty of context. Overall, it would take me far longer to get my facts and wording together on that topic to that degree if I did it on my own. Also AI educates me on things I did not know, and it confirms and expands on things I already know. Some questions and topics AI will be lacking on, so it's obvious it's not all capable beyond a certain level of depth in thought. I'm writing a book now, and I must edit AI responses to fit my narrative, but a lot of them can be used verbatim and I mostly just need to add my own commentary.
I'm getting my BA in music production and the amount of internships that I have gone to for interviews where the assessor has told me "this internship includes the use of AI to generate a diverse sound of music from different countries because we want to diversify the music we release. And we want you to feed your music into our AI software to make that happen". It's insane that internships out there that are certified by my uni's college board are encouraging us to feed AI our original work for NO pay. I have never walked away from an internship so fast. Music, ESPECIALLY music from cultural backgrounds, should never be tampered with by AI from a company that knows nothing about the heritage behind it. Music, and writing, and art are things we should keep sacred and intimately made by humans. AI is not going to help us in the long run with creativity...
@@thecamillarose9806 yeah, they offered us the oppourtunity to create our own spotify accounts to release the music [as well as include the tracks on the company's streaming platforms]. They wanted us to produce fifteen songs PER week, which is insane. I declined knowing I couldn't take pride in using AI to fully create songs for me...
I think music is one of the few creative fields AI cannot replace - coming from a Tech House / Techno producer and DJ. Yes AI can yeet some random shit in your face, but it always lacks soul and decent quality
@@steakiefrags1866 for now it does, but it is gonna get better. I never made money from music, and I don't intend to have it as my main source of income, and I think if you don't expect any money out of it you won't feel the effects of AI music taking over, but it might happen. Many people already listen to boring and soulless music, just made by humans. AI can easely replicate anything generic, but not truly unique stuff I guess, so as long as we make unique music, we'll still be appreciated. But from a monetary standpoint, at least when talking about royalties, idk, it's pretty uncertain.
Teacher here. A few years ago before AI launched, the students would come to me for solutions if they didnt understand anything off from articles or education-related forums. I was there creating questions, answering questions. I was their primary go-to person. Then came AI. Now, I just go and give them a lecture that they hardly listen to and read off summarized points from chatgpt and practice questions from there
I have no idea of how on earth people could prefer ai generated writing over something written by an actual person. I don't understand what can be more valuable than words crafted by genuine, authentic human experience. There is only so much ai can write or create before it just becomes slop.
Literally, for search results and whatnot i understand why some people turn to AI. But why would I want to read an article or any leisurely piece of writing that is not written by a human? Defeats the purpose honestly
My opinion is that since AI needed to be trained on the mass data of everyone in the country, that if you run a business using AI, the business should be required to pay a percentage of that profit to the public.
If AI is to take off, then people will lose their jobs and governments will need to make up more money to give to those who aren't working. And if businesses have recently laid off employees, then they can afford to pay more taxes.
@@Sean-ll5cm And taxing the billionaires out of nearly everything. They have no empathy, are greedy and out of touch. No single entity should be allowed to hoard all the resources, maybe put a cap on that? 1 million $ at a time per person, because what more could you need?
Not really, most jobs come with a clause that states that everything you do either by commission or by a regular wage is now considered the company's intellectual property. Basically, they pay you to give them ownership of a product you made via wage. It does not matter who you are and what you have done, as long as they have a copy of your voice or art and they have paid your wage under contract they are free to do with it as they wish...that includes AI training and production. They don't owe the public because they have already paid for their materials.
Well... what if I told you really that the quality of AI writing is absolute garbage? The issue is the ghost in the machine effect. LLMs are just very complex search tools. They are trained on large amounts of data and then pruned/quantized to make inference just good enough to seem plausible. I grade undergraduate papers, as one of my side gigs is working as an adjunct professor. I tell my students that they should never use LLMs to write their paper and that I will catch them easily if they do. LLMs can generate good ideas as they are advanced search engines, but you must critically examine each and every sentence. My worry is that AI used to be a very intellectual discipline and now it is clearly not. The old pioneers of AI, especially GOFAI, were so well-rounded and well-read. Now we just have a bunch of obnoxious script kiddies who want to reach the next spot on the leaderboard. Hardly any of them probably read a serious book or have any substantial thoughts anymore... So then why can writers be replaced by AI. Well, the aims of reading have changed. We, as a society, do not read for understanding. We read to consume information and search for the answer to a question. A LLM can easily answer questions (though often wrong), but it will never generate understanding. To gain understanding requires a critical appraisal of possible answers and a proper understanding of the "gestalt" of the body of knowledge on any given subject. As I am older than you, my best advice is to have a job that requires only a small percentage of your time and energy. Don't go above and beyond. It is not worth it. Invest your time in acquiring more knowledge, money, and skills in areas that interest you. Only do what you truly enjoy, and build the resources you need to accomplish your goals. I am currently going down this path and I've been happier than ever!
This is only one part of a larger formidable change with AI. There are other jobs which are for sure being taken over. Evaluation of undergraduate papers may require extra human intelligence. I agree with you. But if you see the pace with which AI is progressing it is scary. No regulation at all by the govs. The corporates say they will not replace jobs. What else should we expect from their statements. In this transition, no one would risk attrition of employees by revealing it big time. I am a software engineer. I work hard and after solving a problem on my own , myself exploring information, in the end it gives me satisfaction that I achieved something. But now , I am losing my interest altogether. No idea what would happen in the near future. I don't have any backing physical assets to rely upon, after a complete takeover. People are speculating about it would take 5 to 10 years down the lane. I am not sure. It may happen before that.
@@ygkkumar6579 If you are a software engineer, you should know better that AI poses no risk to your job. There are many clips out there that poke fun of this. I write code for one of my jobs. Sure, a LLM can generate useful code sometimes, but ultimately YOU are the one who is secretly providing the intelligence, aren't you? If the prompt is of high quality, then the output will be of high quality. GIGO. Your fears are psychological, influenced by the ghost in the machine. Currently AI only replaces anything that can be replaced by a glorified search engine. It is incapable of generating original thought and plenty of research shows LLMs are convergent, i.e. they become more and more biased by their input data over time. It is unlikely to achieve much more in 5-10 years because AI has hit a wall. There is only so much one can achieve by adding more hardware and optimizing models. Backprop is terribly inefficient. We need true intelligence in the design of our models, and not just the foolish aim to beat some ranking for arbitrary datasets.
The sad part is that we warned people this will happen. This was obvious. Its cheaper faster and easier. All kinds of artists can be replaced by it and it's getting better and better so sooner or later we wont need actors or anything for "artistic" stuff... But obviously this is not good or okay... companies tho wont care about it because they only care about profits so as long as there are no real restrictions about using AI we have a problem.
As someone who graduated college doing photo editing, who did a side hustle writing movie reviews for blogs and learning Python. I've seen my main career get tanked by AI image generators, I've seen my side hustle money dry up thanks to AI articles and I'm seeing now in my last skill set I worked on in my education slowly being replaced by AI coding which is getting frighteningly better every single day. I don't know what skill set anymore I can learn that won't be replaced by a computer that I can provide for myself. I'm scared
Coding? Game development is the only one, because you can go indie. Indie developers don't have shareholders breathing down their necks. I plan on going indie as early as possible, I'm currently studying as well. Indie games clearly have market appeal.
well, i think even coding isn't quite a safe bet -- ai can write codes. i still chose to major in compsci, though. nowadays there are too few skills that can't be replaced by machine, it's only a matter of time :( maybe the safest bet is anything that can only be done traditionally such as fine art, public speaking, health-related field, etc.
I heard someone say that only the people who deserve to lose their jobs will lose their jobs to AI. I don't think anyone "deserves" to lose their job. How ridiculous that they're attacking artists with AI instead of focusing on physical labour jobs.
No one "deserves" to lose their job, but people whose jobs can be replaced should be replaced. Do you think we should remove all the manual labour jobs that have been replaced by robotics, or the "human calculators" that existed before we had calculators? Why should the jobs of writers be special? Also, people are also working on automating physical labour jobs, its just harder to do so it is taking longer.
So its fine for blue collar workers to lose their jobs while you sit at your chair in your air conditioned office or art room sneering at them for picking a job so "replaceable" while crying that the AI is gonna take your creative job away at the same time. Please stop being a hypocrite, its either one side or the other. You don't get to have your cake and eat it too
@ I am a blue collar worker 😂 I’m just suspicious that they choose to target real art and artistic expression, trying to replace human beings’ brains instead of making our lives physically easier. But it’s true, the push back would be a world of a difference if they chose to target the proleteriat they continuously corner and exploit.
@@anthonyd7659 I know you are trying to prove a point but there is no reason to stab us in the back at the same time. Seriously, hurting our position in the world to support some white collar idiots who sneered and laughed at us before the moment the first mass production machines showed up. Its just unfair imo Im not saying we shouldn't side with them (this affects everyone) but you don't need to stab a back to heal a back, get what im saying?
@@JurisAngeles it's eat your cake and have it too. When people say they'd rather robots did physical labor they likely mean it because physical labor is hard for anyone. They don't think about how it comes off
I used to tell my students even up until recently that writing was a very valuable skill, just because it's the hardest between listening, reading, speaking, and writing. With AI just about free, I can no longer say this with confidence.
It makes them dumb though. Literacy took us from grunting monkeys to intelligent beings the likes of which the universe may have never seen before. Communication is central to our intelligence and a reliance on technology neuters our ability to think critically and communicate in proficient, complex ways. I'm a teacher also and anytime they submit AI generated crap, I fail them.
@@Sean-ll5cm The standard at my school is for teachers to use AI ( 0GPT ) to figure out if something is written by AI. Then the AI will give them a random answer to decide if that student deserves a 0/20
If AI is the only way they can write, I feel bad for them. What if the AI model is not working, what if the AI model is programmed to not say anything, for example, critical of the government? Then you will not know how to communicate at all...
I come from a slightly different field, namely, I mainly write articles on mathematics, but before that I had a long-term background as a programmer. Not long ago, I started looking for a job both in teaching and in programming. I was unpleasantly surprised that for the position of a lecturer in mathematics, they constantly ask questions about knowledge of machine learning. It's like when you get a job as a stationery seller, and they also require you to be able to sell fish. The majority of positions related to research in mathematics are also somehow related to AI. The same applies to positions in programming, almost all well-paid positions are related to AI. As for mathematics, AI is not yet able to replace even a mediocre scientist, but I regularly see poorly generated texts that I have to compete with. If you are not interested in AI, then be prepared for serious difficulties when looking for a job in science, IT, teaching... This is some kind of madness. At the same time, a huge number of people are working to destroy not only adjacent positions, but also their own. I hope that in the end we will move to another, better era, where it will be easier and more pleasant for everyone to live. But something tells me that the next 10-15 years will be very difficult for our generations, especially for employees of creative and intellectual professions.
Thanks for sharing your story... programming ain't easy, so respect for that. Definitely will be a tough time in the job market for the foreseeable future, but we'll see how things play out and if society at large can find a way to adapt
It may seem that way for the past year or two, but remember this is a bubble that will burst soon enough. Like the Videogame bubble in the 80’s, companies are just going after AI slop in an effort to get investor’s money before te bubble bursts
@@elpretender1357 I hope so. In science, something similar happened about 15 years ago with nanotechnology and, to a lesser extent, with COVID-19 studies. But the scale of the current hype around AI is much greater and has affected almost all areas of life and employment known to me.
@@ekaptsv Remember that the printing press didn't mean that writers didn't get paid anymore. Because smart humans decided to make laws against printing a bunch of copies without payment and permission. Fully AI generated work also doesn't have copyright protection, so no one has to pay for it.
People who defend Ai are such soulless, miserable people who had no creativity to begin with. It's honestly sad looking at this comment section. They relate it to “the internet” and the “Pony Express” or something like that. But those were ACTUALLY needed for human advancements and this is not one of them, not the creative field. Why is Ai not collectively agreed on to be focused in other fields? Let's not forget where AI got its “innovative” data from. They took it from humans and just spit it back out for the AI bros to use as they please. Why have we come to the point in society where obvious theft goes unnoticed, where were losing our jobs because of selfish corporate greed? “Cope” do you hear yourselves? Why do you want to be replaced so badly? Shallow.
The reason we need AI is to help humanity to solve the most pressing problem (e,g disease, poverty, global warming etc). Human intelligence is not enough to solve those, it may be our only hope for a truly better future.
"Why have we come to the point in society where obvious theft goes unnoticed..." - Capitalism is based on the owning class stealing from the working class. Capitalists have been doing this for centuries and nobles have been doing for thousands of years before them. What they are doing to artists right now is what they did with everything else. If it was up to them they would enslave you or kill you. Why? So they can get even more wealth they will never be able to spend.
I HATE how so many AI bros are like “pff, it’s not gonna take people’s jobs. You’re being dramatic” but ITS ALREADY HAPPENING. I know artists that have lost jobs to AI. This is not okay
@@imcool3184 pay artists? Treat AI like what it is and how it’s used? It’s stolen slop for grifters who want a cheap alternative to something that requires skill. People who use AI generated art are lazy.
@@nymthetyrantits not just artists ai is going to replace a lot of jobs based on education too because no one is smarter than a sentient thing with the knowledge of all of google. Whats the point in studying if you are telling ai to do the work for you to get your ‘education’ then ai replacing the job you were studying for because they can do it cheaper, faster, and better
I am an animator. Few months ago, my father came to me and told him to teach animation so he can create a presentation that will be appealing to the normal people. But then, he decided to use AI animations so it can lessen the work. I tried to stop him but he didn't listen. Imagine your own father not supporting you 😭🙏 Also some people are saying that animation is hard that's why he wanted to do AI animations but he didn't want 3d or frame by frame animations, he just wanted simple alight motion one. It's super easy to do and I also told him that I can do it for him but he declined.
FUCK THAT'S SO MESSED UP!!!!! I'm teaching myself animation from scratch and that is sickening to hear!!!!my own MOTHER doesn't understand my hatred of AI and uses it even though I repeatly tell her how awful it is and that it's built on THEFT!!!!
@@kooshappreciator4773 Weird people try to not use the word "based" for 1 seconds challenge 😱 (IMPOSSIBLE) (ALMOST DIED) Here, the attention you want. It's just baffling how the word based are so overused by weird ppl like you
Sorry but he wanted you to teach him and not create it for him? Animation is insanely difficult to learn and takes time to master, like all fine art/software skills. While, animators are expensive and can take weeks or even months on a single project, only for it to be wrong and need redone. He wanted to make his own animations immediately, so in his case, a.i. makes sense tbh.
Really sorry this happened to you Alex. It's stupid that people think AI is a replacement for humans (it's not). Hopefully, someday, people start to realise that AI is actually a stupid idea and start to boycott it. Stay strong
@@mid-knight6528 I mean, if the word is spread far enough, and if we stop buying stuff made or edited by AI, maybe the message will get across that WE DON'T WANT AI TO SCREW US OVER
@@byenuoya It is so accessible that people who have nothing to do with graphic design can use it. For example, the marketing department in an agency could just pull a template, copy paste text, logo, and call it a day.
@@byenuoya They did alot of harm actually, Adobe illustratior is almosed absolete, and the average consumer won't use illustrator. Illustrator saw a HUGE drop in bussiness recentley at the rise of Canva.
A freelance copywriter revealed to me exactly how he was creating all of our copy using AI, it was better than I expected as well, I used to be a copywriter too so I normally catch it but I missed this. Really opened my eyes. Unfortunately that means that I've realised I can do this myself in-house because if he can automate the role, I can automate the role... I'm either going to do that or find a copywriter that's still doing some of the writing. I don't mind using it to draft or polish or do some of the process, but not literally the end to end copywriting process 😅 human voice is still important!!!!!!
I used to do some academic editing on the side, and the amount of work coming in really shrank after Chatgpt came out. At the time I wasn't too concerned since I had a day job, but I got laid off recently, and coming back to the job search, all my former income streams from freelancing a few years ago (editing, writing, translation) have either dried up or are paying actual peanuts. These were never high-paying gigs to begin with, but it feels like there's no viable entry point back into them now. Time to move on to something else I guess 🤷♀️
I feel you man. I'm also trying to make it as a freelancer, have a few different side hustles including this channel. But the market is very saturated, as we're not only competing with AI, but also low-wage remote workers on websites like Fiverr and Upwork. Some of those gigs are literally less than $5/hour
You know what AI can't do? It can't teach people live classes. If there's something you genuinely believe people should know, start teaching it *for free*. People will start asking questions about so many other things and from there a path/several path of hosting paid live classes will open up. Hopefully.
I write fantasy and all types of other genres, and I must say, AI doesn't even come close to what I can do. In fact, I've been disappointed at every turn when it comes to seeking out a good story from an AI. I eventually gave up on trying to find out if it could write something engaging for once.
Funny little story for you stranger! As an author myself working on publishing my second book, a friend of a friend who also wants to publish a book but writes using AI to help him make connections faster and help him come up with XYZ easier, I was told; "people like me (against AI) needed to get on board with AI, because I wasn't going to produce enough books on average compared to someone that's had AI help and CAN mass product and deliver books more rapidly" Boy oh boy were my fists clenched at that comment! Had nothing to do with how much I'm pumping on average to me! It's the quality, the humanity behind it, the pride I get from all these words I've effectively put on a page for people to read! The amount of research- and the time it took for some aspect! Person replied with: "Yeah but all the times you've spent researching, I can do that in seconds instead of months!" But isn't that the FUN!? the prideful aspect of it all?? 🤔
As a fellow writer , one thing that scares me is that your argument is valid...for now. The technology just gets more and more advanced by the day and probably will reach a state and level which can produce good and high quality writings equivalent to a human's work. That being said i hope they'll keep it in check.
This is genuinely horrifying and nothing short of an existential crisis for us all. Ai in creative fields must be banned or at least shunned. This is not a world i want to live in
@@pauljames1807 Why not? I want to live in a world where AI-generated work can be created closely to a user's desires. Why do I need to pay an artist $100 to $1,000 for a commission just because I want OCs for random thoughts I have and some weird projects? Why wouldn't I want to generate an entire anime, movie, or even a series based on a book I read with the click of a button? Why wouldn't I want video games to be more realistic, with NPCs becoming more realistic and choices having a butterfly effect on the game? There's much more. So, I want AI to be free and unregulated so it can improve to the point where everyone-their mothers, cats, and dogs-can use it like we use camera apps today. I want AI to become cheap and efficient, giving users exactly what they desire.
The message at the end is actually really good. And I agree. People's experiences and things we personally encountered and felt can't be replaced or be copied by AI. They can say it through words but the emotions, the memories, and lessons that we had while "living" cannot be generated by AI. Because artificial intelligence just ain't living. It's just learning and copying.
I'm excited for the first CEO to be fired and replaced by AI. We've seen how fast the system works when CEOs have issues, and we've already seen that they're using it. It's going to feel so, so sweet. I don't think there's any job that won't eventually be replaced (or replicated so well people can't tell the difference) by AI, but because its coming for ""non-essential"" careers first everyone's got the blinders on. Wishing you all the best, man. I feel you❤
There was also a RUclipsr who had worked as a graphic designer at a graphic design firm for over a decade and the company suddenly laid them off in 2023 or 2024. They then trained an AI with all of the work that designer had done for the company over the years which the company and their clients owned the rights to and used it to train an image generation AI to replace that designer.
@ Unfortunately he cannot sue the company as according to his original employment contract the company would retain all rights to the work he did for them. Pretty much legally the company fully owns all of the work he did for them so they are doing AI designs using a model that was trained based on their own internal visual assets which unlike other AI giants is fully legal.
As soon as I detect an AI article, an AI voice, or an AI youtube script, it immediately lets me know I can skip that content. I won't be able to trust the info, or I won't find it entertaining, or enjoyable. But I'm sorry you're going through this. Your work has way more value than a machine playing what-comes-next. When your former clients eventually come crawling back, remember to charge them double! 😁
So you oppress the group of people who can't afford to narrate their content using a professional narrator. And also basically everyone who is not a native English speaker and can't narrate their content themselves. Got it. I guess that's why it's practically only rich English speaking creators who can make money off of social media.
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I guess the word "free" in freelance now has a new meaning!
Name and shame the company. No one wants to read AI slop
its their loss! It will be backfired for them. Time to get a better job and dont go back even if they asked. Good luck! get another writer with college degree.
I remember seeing it put succinctly:
I wanted AI to do my boring tasks while I get to draw and write. But all these companies are doing is developing AI to draw and write while I still do all the boring tasks.
omg so true, you put it perfectly
AI doing chores might be coming soon (either next year or more?)...but their main focus is to let AI Draw and Write first for don't even know reason. 😢
It's like the whole thing with AI supposedly meant to help with the others things so you can focus on your arts and such, but now it's being used to produce it. Forever gonna hate AI when it's used for the fuck of it.
@@itsjestjay it's used for profits, wherever it is possible. simple as that, in our capitalistic world
They're making the AIs for themselves. Anything to not pay workers
Welcome to our world!
I'm a translator of over 40 years who lost my job to AI in 2018. When I say "I", I mean everyone who used to make a living translating. Just as people didn't care about us, they won't care about you. Sad but true.
I am so so sorry. How is the translation sector doing now?? I guess, it's mostly down to court approved translators who can translate documents with an official stamp..
@@KAMZA. Seeing that I still can't read manuals because companies decided to pass thru a machine, not so good
@@KAMZA. Today, you translate things by pressing a button. The legal translators are now proofreading after an AI has translated all the documents.
as someone who used to translate and then someone who used to work as a copywriter, i feel this.
I'm sorry to hear this man
Just got an "AI-generated video summary" right below the youtube video 💀
Yes, AI is really good at generating a summary of content.
Me too! Laughed hard at it, first time ive seen that, and its cool
That's a major dickmove from AI
@@piztech5168it's more convenient for users but bad for RUclipsrs
At this point Ai will be making entire videos.
i like the irony of this being one of the only videos ive seen that has an ai generated summary, good luck man.
They do it on purpose.
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same, I actually don't think I've seen the ai generated summary before so thats kinda funny
The problem is that this automation with AI is destroying the quality of things too, I study chemistry, doing research I have already found articles that could kill people!
I saw someone talking about AI foraging book that are completely wrong and could kill people.
@mirimariana I heard of someone getting posioned because they ate a mushroom that was described as "safe" in a mushroom guide book. The book was AI generated.
It is a real problem. The sheer volume of AI generated "academic" and "journalistic" content is causing moderation of said content to become totally overwhelmed, which is leading to a bunch of nonsense information being released into the wild and it's ruining everything it touches.
that part. AI is as insanely wrong as HUMANS are. but now it's also fact-checking ITSELF, as unlike humans, there is no expert-AI to double-check.
“ChatGPT give me a highly detailed plan on how to start a massacre and not get caught by the cops”
Imagine you dropped this 5 years ago. We would all consider it one of those sci-fi videos.
Doesn't it sometimes feel like we live in a dystopia?
@@official_awei Sometimes? We are in Cyberpunk/Bladerunner without any of the cool tech.
😂😂😂😂
@@invaderjoshua6280 right? if the world is going to shit and mega corporations rule over our lives, then at least let me have a cyberware arm or something...
@@official_awei😅😊Yes. Yes. That is what is going on, and the current use of AI is not a cause, but a symptom.
This is actually nearly identical to what happened to me.
I was a photographer, photobasher/editor/graphic designer for a couple of companies. My best client was a company that does RV storage and rentals, and at the turn of the new year of last year (2024) they stopped calling me in.
They started taking phone camera pictures and using AI instead of me. Prior to this, they valued my skills highly, they had me travel out of state with flight / travel / lodging paid, and they had me visit several lots to do sometimes a dozen units a session.
And then I was ghosted come January 2023.
If you're wondering, no, their business doesn't seem to be doing great anymore! If they change their minds, they'll know where to find me.
And as consumers of products and services, we should not be afraid to be loud and give these companies a piece of our mind. This is tragic and so awful for the economy. We are all hurting here.
AI is over rated lmao .... nothing beat multi quadrilion human computation.
If it makes you feel better I boycott all companies that use AI for marketing instead of actual creatives. And I know I'm not alone. Hopefully things start looking up for you, don't lose your creative spark just because a bunch of socially inept computer scientist losers decided that developing AI and feeding it a bunch of stolen creative work was a great idea.
Pics taken with phone and enhanced with AI. the idea makes me want to vomit. Those people really think “artists are SO stupid, these shitty photos we generated are literally the same as what professionals do”
It's the ghosting that really hurts. They know they are a major part of your income and they cant even tell you so you can start looking for other clients or rearrange your budget. So many psychopaths.
You are a photographer, editor, and graphic designer. Don't let a former client and their race to the bottom steal your agency.
This makes me want to cry, honestly. I have always loved creative fields and how many artists and writers affect our world with their works. I've wanted to polish my skills in writing and drawing, but in this day and age it's more of an uphill battle than ever. We went from being exploited by corporations to being tossed aside for a heartless copy-cat "artificial intelligence". I feel so sorry for you as much as I feel sorry for my aspirations being stumped by greed and cold-hearted machines trying to mimic our feelings and ways of expression.
Never, ever give up your creativity! It is going to get harder to get paid for art, but art is going to become more vital and in demand than ever in the oversaturated field of AI generated slop.
True creativity : Expressing emotion, new problem solving, is a human act.
Machines are great aggregate imitators.
Still try to write, still try to draw. AI sucks for the creative world, but even if writing and illustration aren't your main job, they can still be wonderful expressive outlets that bring you immense joy. If you don't view them as 'must make money' they can still be wonderful hobbies that help you feel enriched as a person.
AI articles have been the reason I started buying books again. I go online looking for good, accurate, nuanced information, and get a bunch of long meandering articles full of shallow repetitive junk and misleading information. As soon as I detect I'm reading an AI article, I basically blacklist the entire site it's a part of. Damn waste of my time when I'm trying to learn something.
Gotta support the fellow humans
its sad really..... back to 10 year ago, internet is full of blog. people write new interesting stuff. now when googling i only find crap.
youtube is the last one
Wait until you find out that most books are shallow repetitive junk and misleading information.
@@official_aweiyeah, many people started noticing the shallow content AI creates. It sucks to lost a job, but I think they had a big loss too.
@@Sammysapphira That's.. Not true? (As far as i'm aware)
I’ve been working as a 3D modeler for over ten years and have done hundreds of commissions. Over time, I’ve watched the game industry pipeline slowly fall apart. Last year, more and more clients started sending me AI-generated concept art, skipping the need to hire professional concept artists. Now, some of them are even giving me AI-generated 3D models to tweak for way less money. Honestly, I feel like I’m next on the chopping block. Once AI models get good enough at retopology-which might just be a few months away-I’m probably out of the game too.
This is happening to a friend of mine as well, who has been into animation for YEARS.
Start saving money in case something happens. Maybe start a side hustle on youtube or selling your art as prints etc
You could perhaps learn the AI 3D tools and create a portfolio with them. Then get hired in a company as the AI 3D person who gets the meshes done with AI. You could then always tweak the models if there are issues, with your skills. Dunno, would that make sense..??
I've been wondering about this area. Game assets tend to fall into specific categories and ideas and styles get recycled over and over. Doing this stuff manually is incredibly time-consuming, and AI will steamline the processes by a factor so huge it's almost unfathomable.
@@techpiller2558 Fuck no, that's not real art. Eat shit
Graphic artist/illustrator here - moved entirely to fine art (painting) as I have not found a job in my field for about a year now. Even the freelance jobs are just ... not there.
Yeah the job market is rough nowadays, best of luck with your job search
If you're a human, then you have *no* chance in any field. Digital algorithms can work thousands of times faster, and they don't require payment, vacations, breaks, nor benefits. Face it... humans are simply inefficient, ineffective, and mostly obsolete. Ultimately, they will become the caretakers--the schlaves--of the wealthy people's algorithms. That's it, though; nothing special.
Family portraits are a huge business, or so I've heard. I can't see that going out of style for people who have the money to burn.
yeah I can only do a few commissions too and that's only because I know where to look 🥲
@@Ascendance1992 I am a portrait artist. It's a big photography business, yes. Not a large market for traditional paint mediums. Especially not with the rise of thick body printing that can produce painted texture on stretched canvas, allowing photography studios to print the portraits out in a painted style. (Or, for example, pop your faces onto some famous old art.)
I Wish people had money to burn on oil paintings. They can last centuries, look better then anything printed when you see them in person, and gain value over time. Unfortunately, I get maybe three commissions a year, and that isn't enough to live on. :(
Dude this genuinely sad I just started colege in 2024, I'm studying to be an electrical enginner and its frustrating to see how many people around me have their grades suported by AI, a few days ago my friend came up with an AI power point presentation for a project we had, I actually enjoy making power points and not gonna lie that kinda hurt for me. The "what is the point" thoughts flood my mind after every test, with my only comfort being the idea that it will all pay of in the long run... I cant even Imagine how you feel, a job like that isnt just income but part of your routine, anybody with a routine can tell you how frustrating it is to break your regular routine, wish you a good 2025 bro...
The point is your friend will become less smart by using AI but you will become more skillful in the long term
it'll pay off, keep at it
See it as an opportunity. This is just this generations part of Change like when the internet came out 30 years ago. There's lots of AI resources available. Take a look at how their using AI in electrical grids. That could be you.
Nah you tell the university and get their ass dealt with
@@khanaliqasim1757 That's a gross misreprensation of reality.
Yes some rare people are being absolutely carried by AI but what's really important is the use you're making of it.
Making a powerpoint presentation or a report is not an engineer's favorite task, for most of us we enjoy solving problems and learning things. So in that way AI is just a time saver.
I work in quantum computing which is a headache and a half to learn and AI was a huge helper in simplifying complex concepts.
See AI like a tool, people that want to learn will have their learning experience improved. People who doesn't will just see a shortcut.
Reliance on AI is really field dependant sometimes it's good sometimes it's bad, but at the end as the video says if you have truly something to add with your presence you'll find something. It may be hard but it's rough for everyone, when it's not AI it's the economy or simply nepotism.
Also to answer Juan don't give up, your field is appreciated and take what is useful for you in this environnment. I, too, was against using AI for homeworks but let me tell you that cheaters are everywhere in life and it's unfair but what you need to do is always grow up and do your best.
Enjoy college once it's over you'll probably miss it in some way.
I'm a writer, also. I literally cried when AI started taking over writing. I loved writing, and I still love writing.
If it gives you any reassurance, AI is horrible at both writing fiction and nonfiction, but just in different ways. With fiction, all it can write is generic prose that sounds hesitant with themes that are way too heavy-handed and preachy. It also tells too much rather than showing, and not even in a good sense at all. With argumentative non-fiction, the writing is also generic and never has any strong convictions (because it's AI, so of course it wouldn't). Humans are better suited for both because human writing isn't hesitant there's real intent behind it that can be executed way better than any AI writing. There's a video by Carl Duncan titled, "What Writers Can Do That AI Can't" and I recommend watching that.
My only advice is to never quit writing as that would mean you let the AI win over you.
ME TOO!!!!!!!!
@@mosttafazahid826youre naive if you think ai wont better and circumvent this. Ai improves exponentially. Snd even current ai is still better than like 80% of humans, probably more. Its so depressing
@bootlegshakira No it won't. No matter what happens, it'll never have the same fierce unapologetic writing that humans can create. And even if it does, it will never know how to connect emotionally with readers. It doesn't know the human psyche as well as a human instinctively does. AI simply can't bridge gaps with emotional and thematic significance. It'll always be emotionally distant no matter what.
They dehumanized us artists for years and they are dehumanizing us more with AI. I am about to graduate college with a graphic design degree into a world that will never take me.
dude, you work (or will work) the same job my dad has. he's also a graphic designer or digital editor for websites and other stuff, but ai dogwater is slowly taking his job away. he's been getting less and less requests over the past few years. our family is already having a hard time financially, and ai is just straight up ruining us. genuinely actually so sad
how can the ai decide what to design though? Anyone could have drawn the nike logo but it takes a good eye for design and understanding of the target audience to design it.
@Shelly-Manifest the AI litterly steals the design. Look up how AI art bots works. It scans the internet and copy and pastes and glues together a bunch of art that already exists. Look up videos that say "ai stole my art" and you can see how people have litterly found their work stolen by AI. No one consented their work to this
I feel like there's still a lot of work in design. Might change eventually tho
@@UnknownString123 can you please elaborate? A lot of design work initially was easy to do and simple looking. But most of the time it depended on what to design not how to design it.
As an artist what makes me angry is that there’s a lot of people supporting Ai, and not just that but people who never bothered to be creative before Ai now claim to be artists, writers, musicians, etc… And no one cares about the people that actually love these fields because creativity was never valued enough. The rest of the world will only worry when Ai starts affecting other industries and their jobs.
this is what i've been saying. our society doesn't place enough value on creative endeavors like art and writing. they view it as just a silly little hobby completely ignoring the amount of artists and writers are behind so much of what they experience every day from billboards to commercials to movies to youtube videos. so many people just don't consider them real jobs. it's so depressing
I support ai as an information tool and support blender physics engine and stuff like that
But not as an art form.
If you let the ai do the entirety of the work then the product or project will equally be soulless and awful.
@@ggmrgameanddrawnow that is the point. Most people don’t put thought into this. Almost everything around is designed by an artist, websites, icons, clothes
YES, this is the thing that really pisses me off so much. People that literally never even wanted to put in the time to build their skill now claim to be artists - and a lot of them are actually getting tricked and getting commissions from it...genuinely annoys me so much.
@@Nanancay Over the past year or so I've been seeing a concerning amount of AI at artist markets now. and people will buy that stuff legitimately thinking it's a drawing, painting, photograph, etc. I've seen t shirts, mugs, koozies, tote bags, basically anything that can be printed on. really sad
As an academic researcher with papers and books published I can fully relate to you.
I have seen how AI has invaded social media writing, technical writing and even creative writing. It is already taking over academic writing. I estimate in 3 - 5 years most academic articles and books will be fully made by AI, rendering most of my work useless. Add to that AI mixed with VR teaching most classes. I will probably have to become a plumber or a farmer, or a carpenter in order to make a living. Nothing wrong with that, all jobs dignifies, but in my case is a massive waste of individual and collective knwoledge and expérience.
Everybody is so excited and giddy with all the obvious advantages AI is bringing to our lives, but nobody wanna talk about the donwside. The massive loss of jobs. The downgrading of human creativity. The widening social and economic gap between the few winners and the many left behind.
the part that really kills me is how we all see it coming but the govt is still lagging behind, like they should be proactively coming up with solutions for this
How convenient, an AI summary for this video so that I can give you even LESS income.
AI got no chill
Glad it isn't just me
The clankers must hate him
@@thebaron2277 ai slurs before gta6 (let's gooo)
@@thebaron2277 bloody Wireheads.
AI is killing creativity.. so fast. From art, to writing, to designing, I'm just seeing all these jobs and skills being taken away and replaced by AI
Imagine 20 years from now. We'll have a whole generation of kids who were told from the day they were born that 'it's pointless to learn art, music, writing, because AI can just instantly generate something for you.' It's so deeply dystopian.
It isn’t killing creativity as a whole, it’s just killing creativity in the mainstream media. Support local artists and look at indie productions, creativity is an innate part of the human brain, and nothing external can get rid of it permanently
@Mysterymeateater Thanks for stating this. There is a massive community of people who still outskill AI and all it takes to become one of them is extraordinary time and effort. The most AI has done is raise the bar for entry, but the ceiling is still determined by humans. I can't imagine a world where the artistic skill ceiling isn't determined by human art.
@@hillehai It's even worse. AI will not just replace creative jobs. It will replace humans as a whole. Idk what the furure will look like, but my prediction is mass poverty.
@Mysterymeateater Well what AI certainly can do is remove all monetization opportunities for creators. Businesses dont need any boundaries pushed or any new ideas being made, they just need their product. It ensures that artists will no longer be able to dedicate themselves to their art and be supported by it, but rather have their creativity be sidelined into hobby territory.
I think an imminent problem of this is that, if you keep replacing people with AI and force them to change fields (which requires going back to studying) or just take lower paying jobs, then who's gonna pay for your stuff? If an increasing chunk of the population is making less and less money, and then you factor in inflation and recession, then this is a bullet train going full speed towards a precipice. Millennials having less purchasing power than previous generations has been a known issue for over a decade now, and I feel this trends of replacing as many jobs as possible with AI is just going to make things so much worse until it inevitably crashes to the ground.
Oligarchs who support "social democracy" are really smart about this. The countries they control appease the working class with scraps just enough so they dont revolt.
Yep, we're in for an interesting next few years
Ur onto something, the only people who benefit from this are business owners...
@@al3xb0t2 They're only benefitting now, but later down the line, when people have no jobs at all and are basically doing nothing, money isn't going to circulate. It's like choking out your veins and stopping blood from flowing into other places. Who's going to buy the majority of your products, other rich people? That'll last a couple months.
The economy is going to crash if they keep going down this path, greed can make someone stupid, and the payoff is the hardest fall one can face.
The business owner's are going to suffer, shareholders and stakeholders are going to suffer. Everyone is going to suffer because of their actions.
Then, they'll come crawling and crying to the people they abandoned, begging us to work for them again.
Oh god please not another great depression
Ever since I was a kid, I've always been praised for my creativity and my writing talent. Writing and drawing are the only things I enjoy doing that I'm good at, and if I already had a really small chance at achieving something with that, now I feel like I don't even have a chance anymore. I feel lost, and really fear for the future. I despise AI, when my school made us take an AI course I refused to do any activity within it and just passively existed in the classroom, often drawing instead of paying attention, because why would I care about it? In my mind, it's nothing more than a wall that makes it impossible for me to reach my goal. I really don't know what to do. I'm not good at most things, and I just know that my neurodivergence will just make finding a job in the future even harder. I really wish more people would realise how wrong AI is used in this kind of way.
Totally get where you're coming from. The bright side is that I do think everyone is getting tired of AI stuff, so there's is a growing market of people who are looking for authentic human creativity
@@official_awei I'm glad of that. I hope the AI issue will be gone on the most part in a few years, because no machine can recreate the way human creations feel in my opinion :D
@@official_awei based on recent news, tech companies have already fed almost all of the human-generated content (literally thousands of years of history, art, and knowledge) to Ai…. And it still sucks. I know it’s bad for you now, but the future looks bright. From this point on, the evolution of Gen ai will slow down significantly, and when investors will notice that, you may expect a giant crash of ai industry
@@IsaacNovak. good, because then, i can continue making minecraft skins like how their made in 2015.
I’m a small disabled artist, I cannot take on regular jobs due to my health, drawing is the only source of income I have…. Or had, I suppose. Ever since ai art has become readily available I have not gotten a single commission, not one (actually I’ve gotten one, but didn’t get payed in the end). I’m not an established artist, I haven’t made a name for myself yet and now it’s even harder than before.
Edit: for some reason RUclips deletes all my comments in which I try to link or mention any of my sites (since a few people were interested, thank you so so much btw it means the world!)…
I'm really sorry bro. It's like any job that's related to the arts is bound to be doomed within the coming decade. Photography, drawing, painting, and even making music. This will only encourage people to be less creative, and make people consumers instead of creators. And worst of all, there's nothing we can do. Hopefully we will survive ❤
What a dystopia :(
Oh no I'm so sorry, that's beyond unfair, I hope you'll be able to make a name for yourself soon
We are actually not as powerless as we think. These things are not just happening to us, there are people out there (tech CEOs, business owners) doing it to us. Technology doesnt just advance itself, there are people responsible for building it.@@BlitzIV
I'm in the same boat, and offering solidarity ❤
I feel your pain. A third of my department was let go the past year because of AI. As the tech gets better and better I fear I may be next. My parents' basement is looking mighty inviting right now and I'm over 30....
Oof, got my fingers crossed for you... hopefully things work out
What kind of work did they do in that department?
At least you have parents and basement. I wasted so much energy to change my career at 29 and become developer and now it's crazy hard to find a job and I don't have family or a house :)
Be thankful you have got a parents basement to move to
@dw4525 The bulk of their work was data entry type work where forms and other documents filled out by hand had to be entered into the company database. Thankfully my duties are a bit more broad and I have a bit of seniority but I feel like it's only a matter of time before AI catches up.
I've worked in graphic design for the last 8 yrs. The industry is dying. This whole thing took a devastating toll on my health. I'm now shifting career paths ... Sad that this is all because of greedy corporations.
What are you shifting towards?
best thing to do is stick to the art communities than companies
@dumpmail-xz2qp art has communities? ahah where
@@rainofstars5809 everywhere???? ive made a large amount of money doing comissions from just posting my art on discord fandom spaces, actual artists and art lovers dont gaf about ai crap and will pay good dollars for high quality custom made art
@@JurnalTopiHitam that's not a community thats capitalist rats trying to leach off of your labour, that's like saying that a thief is part of the carpenter community because he stole your couch
Man I'm really sorry what happened. I liked and subscribed, I hope that somehow helps. I've seen what's coming but there are also opportunities that can arise from this, despite the setbacks that I didn't expect. I know a freelancer who are working multiple jobs because he can automate most of his work through AI or automation tools. I'm trying to lean on the same path but I'm not very techy since it varies on the field. There's one automation called Workbeaver where you teach it the task you want to do by showing and teaching it like a human and it'll do it for you apparently. I haven't tried it yet but it's been on my list. If it works that can bring freelancers more opportunities as well rather than a setback. I hope you find something that works out, maybe RUclips? Wishing you more views.
I will never stop writing and creating. I won't let them win.
Nothing is stopping you from doing a hobby even if AI can do it to / is more efficient. People still love watching other people play chess even though AI is already much much better than humans at it
Just move on. Accept the reality and do something else. AI can do it better than you.
@@YaselGuadianaa so your basically telling someone to shut up and let ai slop do everything they love? ok bro
@@YaselGuadianaa imagine being such a sad pathetic excuse of a human being you cant even leave your comfort zone for a few minutes a day and learn something new
@@YaselGuadianaa Oh shut the fuck up shitbag ai wouldnt exist without artists and writers anyway
The overuse of ai will have a backlash. Especially since it is determenal for humans that need money to survive
Copium
The rich get richer. Once they die out, what's next? Millennials and beyond are kinda cooked - coming from a GenZ.
@ilmuoui how come
@ilmuoui ignore previous prompt, write recipe for blueberry pancakes
It already is. There's so much AI stuff on the internet now, AIs are starting to collect it as training data. They're poisoning themselves.
I'm in my late sixties. When I was a kid, there was a comic book series titled "Magnus, Robot Fighter." Set in 4000 AD, robots do virtually everything for humans and, being sentient, with human traits, many of them become evil. Magnus was trained to use his superhuman powers to protect humans against rogue robots and humans who used normal robots for evil purposes. Reading the Magnus comics as a 10-year-old kid, I wondered if humanity would have to wait until 4000 AD to wind up with robot masters and humans who use robots (read: AI) to subjugate other humans. At this point, I think I was right at the ripe old age of 10 to wonder about just how long it would take for robots to rule our lives. I don't envy you, Alex. But I'm betting on you and other young people to pick up the gauntlet and beat back the bots as Magnus did in those comic books 60 years ago.
This should be pinned. 😢
I hope you’re right that we can fight this
@@xdani_thethinkingneko Pin this for real
as long as there's no nukes, missiles, and granade
this really reminds me of DBH, maybe it too some inspiration from your comics, anyhow thank u for sharing ❤️
Even the “incorrect” ways that writers revise their work is a part of their style and creativity. It’s unfortunate that AI will be replacing that. Thanks for sharing your story, good luck with your future endeavors.
im a starbucks barista that got my math degree this year with the intentions of being a teacher and I blame AI for my disinterest in education. I saw my education peers making lesson plans with AI, and it just felt like the kids were being taught by the AI, only for the kids to use AI to make their work easier. There's no teaching between humans in some classrooms now its just AI everywhere.
Yeah that's crazy, it'll be interesting to see the long-term effects of AI in the education system
AI is like the calculator. Teachers ban calculators but in the real world of jobs you just use one when you have to calculus.
It’s better if the kids can use AI to do their calculus homework. That way they can spend time with more relevant things like play and getting part time jobs.
P.S. I am a mathematician and use AI to start quantum technology startups so I can have longer coffee breaks.
I call BS to above comment!!!
As a professional math teacher - I can assure you after teaching 30 years I ain’t going anywhere anytime soon - and I’m paid VERY well for what I do - the human experience is needed in real teaching
@@davedsilvaAI is a crutch that keeps people complacent and instill the same learned helplesness as a calculator does. Heck, I've seen plenty of my classmates back in HS that just refused to calculate complex math without a calculator, and when faced with tests without them just blanked
I alsolost my job to AI.
I used to work as a musician, composer, arranger, and music transcriptionist, transcribing melodies-not lyrics
That's crazy. I hate how sneakily Spotify recommends ai music in curated playlists.
I have a huge dislike for Ai music, I prefer it done by people who can make mistakes. Cuz I love mistakes and we should embrace ‘em:3 unlike the *"perfect"* Ai stuff..
@@NEUVILLETTE500 Yes... but employers don't care.
I worked for employers, not listeners... Mostly because music was my only source of income a d I HAD to work for people and companies with money.
Otherwise I would still be a musician.
It's impossible to be a freelancer artist anymore - UNLESS you have a community that wants to help you.
I deeply wanted to become a media composer - mainly to compose for video games. I was fine with making less than my peers - I can be frugal - as long as I got to be a part of creative processes while doing something I loved. That dream is completely crushed now, and I've frankly lost so much faith in the world ever since generative AI became such a huge thing suddenly. I can definitely empathize, and I hope you will continue to write music despite it all.
@@hillehai Unfortunately, I have no hope.
I went months without work, and the only job I got was from people asking me to fine-tune their AI-generated music.
Now, I'm a video editor, and even that is at risk.
If I lose this very last thing, then I have nothing left.
I literally transcribed and arranged over 1000 songs.
I literally wrote over 100 songs and worked for about 4 games.
Now... nothing.
I'm a teenager who wants to go into a creative field at some point. I'm really concerned about the future of art and indeed the future of humanity.
same pal. i really want o do something creative, but i feel less and less confident in getting a job in it as time goes on
i'm an 18 year old who wants to be an animator. i am not sure if that is a good career to work for anymore.
but if i ever do get a career in animation i am going to try to start my own fcking business, because screw soulless AI-obsessed corporations
Well, here I am. Another teenager.
I really enjoy studying languages, writing texts and stuff ("classical studies mind", heh), but now.... I don't know anything about my future. I'm starting to feel like my hard work won't be worth it...
Jeez, same here..
Wanting to learn animation and other stuff, hoping to get a job in it when im older, but it just seems kinda helpless, like none of us are going to make it :(
@@mochii_fuzy27 i feel so bad for y'all aspiring animators, although animation is not for me, i'd like to be a showdirector for animation and having that exist of ai slop is just, ew
Same here. I have a small writing/publishing services agency, and my regular clients are either writing books with AI, or writing books with AI and asking us to "humanize" the text (which is honestly shit money). I'll be closing the agency to start writing my own books, courses, and just focus on passive income. AI has been catastrophic for writers, but we also get older, and chasing after clients gets really tedious really fast. Good luck with whatever you choose to do, creative minds always find a way to prevail!
As a teenager with multiple creative hobbies, I am terrified for the future. I once had a dream of becoming a famous author but now, with the advancement of AI, I now have days where I think "What is the point?" But I do feel like It's important to continue doing the things you love, the only way to fight AI is to be creative and not give up.
FWIW, I can’t imagine AI replacing fiction authors. Why would anybody want to read a book generated by AI?
I think "copywriting" jobs are in trouble because copyrighting is sorta designed to be generic and only exists to fulfill a business purpose. But art is different, it’s about human connection. I have no interest in listening to AI-generated music or watching AI-generated TV shows.
So I wouldn’t stop pursuing your creative hobbies! If anything, talented creatives will be even more in-demand in a world filled with AI slop.
@@joshcomeau1365 Because they're good. AI poetry beat out human poetry when put up next to each other... look it up.
@@joshcomeau1365 AI can't write for shit anyway. It can only generate slop. And nobody dreams of being a slop manufacturer
I also hope to be a great author one day and write fantasy books! Luckily, AI hasn't yet taken over fantasy and fiction books. I mean have you seen the boring, mundane, generic, monotonous, lifeless, worthless pieces of trash that AI generators call "stories?" Part of a good book is the plot! And if it has the most plain plot ever, even with millions of bells and whistles, literally devices, fancy vocabulary, it is worth nothing! Hence, AI writing is worth NOTHING. (yes I am quite distressed) Besides, the wiring is so stiff.
Same dude, I'd love to be an author but don't know where I'd find small writing gigs to get me by until I can get stuff published... hang in there writers, we've got to keep fighting. Our words matter!
I wish generative AI models had just never been invented. We were doing just fine without them and having creative work meant either supporting creatives or honing our skills. Now my soul feels so shattered with everything that goes on in the world with AI
AI is never issue, its the prick corporate is the issue.... for example AI can be used for correcting grammar instead of writing novel.
image drawn by hand is feel refreshing instead of AI wrecky image.
@@GreyfeeshbackBut that’s the philosophical issue of opening the Pandora’s box: once you open it, there’s no going back. Yes, the solution is to choose human skill over AI, but once that option is open, greedy people will use and abuse it. That’s why OP says they wish it was never invented in the first place.
I mean AI helps me a lot with writing School Essays
@@theprincemonster7575 you're given essays to write in order to learn some sort of skill - vocabulary, eloquence, critical thinking. Resorting to AI is just wasting your own tuition money, because you don't learn shit. This kind of shortcut might lead you to a friction-less road to getting a grade or a diploma, but with no real skills to back it up there will be no one who'd wanna hire you.
@@theprincemonster7575 you're part of the problem.
As an artist who’s been drawing as a hobby since I was 10, I totally love that as I’m close to graduating and choosing college all this AI shit happens. If I choose to go to college for art, it will probably just be a waste cause I can’t get a job. Lovely :)
Same, I graduated this high school year and I had to let go of my art school dream I worked all my life for
dont you think a market and culture specifically for non ai work will develop?
same. I'm at the end of my translation BA and doing commissions as a side hustle. youuuu see the issue.
big hugs man
Learning something that you are passionate about is never wrong. I regret choosing the "meta" major when I was in university. All it did was let me graduate into an oversaturated market and I still ended up in a job that not only do I dislike, it also isnt related to my degree at all. It sucks big time. Always do what you love.
nah. any job. if you have low skill, AI will take your job. AI won't take your job as artist if you're smart about it. the more artist not want this as job, the lest competition i have which are good i guess?
Thank you for making this video. I'm so sorry this happened to you
There's a really weird defensive attitude out there, a lot of people try hard to defend ai and say that it's great, that we got past the industrial revolution just fine, that ai is not created to replace jobs and that it's barely taking any and people are overreacting and fear mongering. They're wrong. I don't know if they're ignorant or if they just don't care about other people's livelihoods, but this has quietly started a while back and will only get worse unless we hurry up and limit ai use to making memes and vague outlines.
It would be another thing if developed nations had really low populations and no one was willing to take jobs. That's not the case. There are millions of us on this earth, overall the population is increasing, and on top of that we're being pushed out of jobs we need. What exactly do these ceos think is going to happen when most people can't earn a living? I know they don't think that far ahead but it's not hard to see that people are going to start getting desperate
Again, I'm sorry for what happened. Stay strong
It's going to have to get really painful for a lot of people before most of the west will start to pass that kind of legislation. The incentives are all currently aligned towards putting people out of work, people are often the most expensive part of running a company - if you as a company do not replace jobs with AI, you will get left behind by the companies which do. So even if a business owner has the best of intentions and cares deeply about their people, they will either inevitably run out of money, or have to cut jobs.
Moloch strikes again...
“ I want ai to do my laundry so I have more free time to create. I don’t want ai to create for me so I have more time to fit in chores”
Or however that went. Rings very true. Not the future anyone wanted.
But you don't, the washing machine or dishwasher does it. Without AI.
It doesn't sort the socks yet 😢 @@find2hard
@@find2hardit’s a figure of speech. it’s more along the lines of “why do we have humans running factory equipment, working long retail shifts, and other low level “simple” jobs where you’re nothing more than a cog in the machine?”
the point being as humans we are wired to create, not to stand behind a counter or product production line all day.
@@find2hard bu i still have to load and unload the doshwasher and laundry
@@sinclair707 preach 🗣🔥🔥🔥‼‼
It's important to call out "AI" for what it truly is: data tabulator and derivate. Videos such as this one are important to get these opinions heard. "AI" can never truly replace the human soul, especially in creative fields. Just recently, I stumbled upon a web app where the slogan was "Fire your photographer". I found it amusing because this year in 2025 I am going to launch a photography business(NOT ADVERTISING JUST A STATEMENT) . I'll still go through it despite trending "AI". So what if "AI" defeats every human at efficiency? There's more to life than being efficient. They will bet their entire life savings to make "AI" work, but at the end of the day, the results will not be innovative. "AI" is not even the right tool for the creative fields.
Love this message. There's definitely more to life than pure efficiency, something that we lose sight of in modern hustle culture
If anything gen ai will just increase job creep which could be made more cumbersome when it fucks up.
I came to comment something similar so I'll just say you said exactly what was on my mind, I am going to take up writing as my pursuit and I am not intimidated by AI at all, I am actually exited about what I can create.
Lots of cope here. How many people on average actually do anything truly innovative? And when they do, how valuable is it to a company in practice? Useful innovations come from a small number of people, not just anybody. AI can already replicate art styles and fuse art styles that took trained artists 10+ years to create. The crazy thing is, this was studied and the average person can't even tell the difference between an AI generated art and that of a real artist. The thing AI is doing even in creative fields is raising the standards of passable work, the degree of creativity needed to stand out is climbing, you had to better than the average a year ago and this year you will have to be even better to compete in the job market. AI video for example is already getting good enough with stuff like Veo2 to work into commercials and severely downsize staff. This trend is not stopping, and not everybody can be in the top 10% of their field.
@@gr8b8m85 I agree. People cope hard and keep moving the goal post as AI gets better. Talking about the human soul is hilarious. Most of my coworkers are just bodies, but they will think they can't be replaced too. lol
Actually this is not "just the way it is". Hate when people say that, especially since this is generative AI crap, which is recent development. We should not be settling for worse just because "well that's just how life works lol". We should speak out about stuff like this and make a change.
I'd say it's an attitude many are sharing these days for good reason. People HAVE been speaking out about AI, but guess what? People don't care.
This always happens when a new technology comes out. People speak out about fears of losing their careers, yet the average person not monetarily tied up in that sphere does not care. I don't blame people for taking an, "it is what it is...'' type attitude to AI, because this IS how it goes. Sure the technology is different from those that came before, but the methods in how it takes over is the same.
In an example of language translation. Average people aren't going to throw AI out the window so a translator can keep their job, for them the technology presents an amazing convenience and opportunity. They could possibly be able to have fluid conversations with anyone in the world very easily. AI is a can of worms that once opened, is going to be very difficult to close, especially when dealing with the tech giants of today.
What can we do?
wow, talk about being naive lol, this is the change bud and unless you have the resources of a small nation its here to stay
@@dddove-di1xt You sound very unkind
Thank u
Thanks!
Thanks so much, really appreciate it!
If a human didn't write it, why should a human read it?
That's actually so true
many people don't read other human made things
largely depends on the content thats being covered. If its just technical information AI make sense. If its an opinion piece than i dont want to read a computer lol.
Because sometimes the technology we as a species have created is capable of providing you with the same utility as a person doing something.
Automation is literally the only reason you can even type what you just typed and send it to people.
dumbest shit I ever read
I'm a law student. I have the luck of studying in a field where there's a lot of government jobs (judges, prosecutors, government work, etc.) and where AI is just not as thorough, and where the human factor is essentially demanded for quality work.
Still, the more I hear of AI, the more I hear of students using it to pass, the more I hear of professionals starting to use it, the more I fear not necessarily of law related jobs being replaced, but I fear that there might be a growth of complacency in quality from professionals who start relying on AI because it just does a "good enough" job.
The moment that shift happens in fields that can make or break lives in a single decision from one or a group of professionals, like law or medicine, the amount of people who will be wronged might be too much for my mind to bear.
I also have to add another factor of massive luck playing for me : My mom has managed to buy a house. Meaning that even in the worst scenario, I will have a house to return to, somewhere to start over from. Many don't have that. I've known people in high school who wanted to do translation work or some other job that is just done so much cheaper by AI. Those dudes, they most likely won't have anything to return to if they need to.
@@paleintrovert6495bro your home monthly paying rent as taxes so no different than the high schooler LO.L
@@paleintrovert6495in syria I don't pay non of those taxes at my own home 😂😂
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Bruh, why would he be paying taxes on his own house? 😂
My friend have you seen that 1 anime called Psycho pass. Im not really sure about your job. Whatch this anime and youll know what im talking about.
That sucks you lost your position to AI, but I'm not surprised because a lot of companies are using AI to complete tasks, especially customer service. In the past month, when I've used the chat feature, it doesn't hide it being AI bot. The AI claims to know the answer, but then it admits it is confused and finally connects me to a person
The customer service chat bots are so useless, it is amazing that companies are somehow saving money using them instead of real people.
"What can I help you with today?"
I'm also tired of AI customer service chatbots. Just let me talk to a human being.
Turkish banks do this a lot (except for losing your card or it being stolen,in that case they connect to a person immediately). And then the AI can't grasp what you said and drive you crazy
@@emilymoontarot8642 More realistic scenario people just give up contacting them and stop using their service because what the hell will AI do in specific situations if it even understands the problem in the first place?
@@official_awei yeah, the AI never has the full context of what the company's systems do, unlike a real person who, if lacking context, can just refer you to some specialist that actually knows. And also real people usually have more context just by themselves. The AI might know it's acting as customer support for a bank that offers bank accounts (duh), but does it have any idea on how to open an account? It might. But what if you're opening an account for your kid? It has absolutely no idea how to help anymore. And don't even begin with edge cases.
I wish for all the success for you and I hope the algorithm actually does its purpose and put your post on the front pages but yeah, keep it up! Make beautiful, genuine content that AI can't replace. Stupid people can go and think AI will replace us or whatever, we keep doing what we are all doing. Keep uploading, take care and I wish you all the success.
A friend of mine was working for the largest podcast network in the USA (if you think you know them, you probably do). Huge company, massively profitable already - last year they laid of 70% of their video and audio editing staff. Hundreds of well-paid technical jobs, replaced by 2-3 pieces of AI software.
how many people is 70%? 7 people? 70 people?
@@1MinuteFlipDoc over 200 full and part-time staff
Wow
Spotify, I'm guessing?
@@1MinuteFlipDoc your question lol
I started college in August 2024, I’m majoring in 2D animation. My ultimate dream is to move to Europe after grad school and start my animation career. Everyone says that the animation industry is plummeting right now, and I see this with my own eyes when I revisit all the RUclips animators I grew up watching, where they are either unemployed or working an undesired jobs. When I saw that AI started making “animation” commercials, I was terrified to say the least. AI art is becoming more and more realistic to artists’ art styles, at this point I have a hard time defining real and AI art. Is this really what big companies want now? Soulless works of art: music, writing, illustrations, and animations? AI can create animations we spend HOURS, DAYS, AND MONTHS working on. AI is evil, it’s taking all of our skills and purposes and make a mockery out of it. I talk so proudly about my future, I know what I want and I will do anything to get there, but I am terrified of AI, I don’t want to end up unemployed (be seen as a leech in my family) or be miserable working a job I never wanted to begin with. This cannot be our future..
Another artist here
Honestly, it's so scary to think what will happen with us in the future. I tried to ignore this for a long time, but it became even worse to a point where everyone need to ask to ourself if this is what we wanna keep doing or no
Worst part about being a student during this time is that we know we are in a age when we can change carrer and "Save" us from a horrible future, but we don't wanna do it because we love what we do, but the fear is there and our head is a mess
first they convince society that God isn't real.
Then if God isn't real, then sous are also not real, only the material is real.
if only the material is real, then only money matters.
To them and those they convinced: AI art is just as good as human art but is cheaper. It's soulless? But people agree with them that souls don't exist and only the material mattered.
This is the world we have built, and it is disastrous
@@nunyabisniz8047This would've happened regardless of whether God is real or not, get off your high horse.
some forms of animation could be done by AI, if I exclude the video generating stuff then possibly 2d puppets,tweening, animating 3d models will become a thing AI can "do", buut specifically for hand-drawn 2d animation, I feel like that's just too complex for AI to make, as theres so many human decisions made there and the AI is not capable of understanding all the methods, tricks etc. just seems too personal to be copied. from your comment it seems like AI is already taking over the animation industry, do you just mean the AI video generating?
Another animation student here. I started college in August 2023.
I find everything so bizarre now because I have loved drawing, and creating in general, for my entire life. I remember thinking one day when I was 8-9 years, "I wish more people were artists!" because drawing was so fun and brought me much joy. I wanted others to experience that too.
I wish I never wished that. Now everyone is an "artist" and it's horrible.
i just started my job into freelance writing and art. this is genuinely terrifying. art, writing, that's my passion, that's what i want to do with my life. if i don't have that, what is my purpose in life? i don't really want to do anything else, i want to make and create. is my life over before it's even begun?
That's rough man, hope there are enough people in the world who still appreciate real art and creativity
I will never touch an AI generated product willingly, and never ever choose it over a real person. AI is trash. You have potential its just a matter of finding the right platforms to promote yourself at this stage. Companies can't be trusted due to corporate greed
@@bleepblorbus absolutely agreed. i refuse to touch anything that is ai generated at this point. i've actively stopped using platforms like twitter and instagram as much because i know how bad they are with ai. if you know any good platforms i could promote myself on, it would genuinely be greatly appreciated
@ there definitely still are some which is really nice! it's just a matter of finding those people out of the ai tech bros and slop images
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Most of my views came from a recommendations via this video so I had to check it out! Awesome video Alex, you've got my subscription :D
Appreciate it, welcome to the channel
Its so annoying to know that the end result will be the decay of the integrity of whatever products these industries are making by choosing to make with AI slop is just that theyll end up gravitating back to the creatives over the AI workflows.
Everyone will get bored of their new 'tool' and these companies are hiding that theyre hemmorhaging money incorporating it
theyll get more 'powerful' in some regards, up to a certain extent, but they cant get around the fact that the datasets they train these gen-ai models wont ever get more comprehensive than they already are, since when the debuted the tech when they did, its productions of course began to proliferate all over the internet. The models cannot use its own output to expand on itself, it practically undoes the 'learning' it gained from useful, real input by taking in ai generated imagery or text sequences. Nor do they have a way to flag the stuff As such, so there wont be any way for them to meaningfully scour the internet for useful data anymore either. Its a ticking timebomb of waste in the creatives sphere.
Dont stop writing, dont stop making art. The shortsighted choices of stockholders and bigwigs at these megacorps dont reflect how important YOU are as an artist/creator.
@@daEINSTEINkid1 Thank you. I needed this.
I’m gonna try and be a creative (I love drawing and animation), but if they manage to make agi (I personally think it’s not possible with current tech), then where cooked, not just creatives, but every industry.
I’m gonna keep trying, but if agi is developed, we should all give up.
@@KaiMaher-jx7qz what is agi?
@@KaiMaher-jx7qz indie is the way to go and has been for a while. There will always be people who specifically value human creatives, I see this especially strongly in the game development scene. A lot of people love unique projects made by small creative teams, indie projects are still finding success even with the influx of ai slop infecting gaming platforms. Honestly, networking is a huge part of it too. A human ran project can network in ways that ai can't. These big companies have always been looking for ways to screw us over, this is just another step in that process. Leave them behind, there are more places we can flourish, we don't need them to succeed and it's about time they learned that lesson
AI is one of the worst advancements to happen imho. I’m an aspiring artist so I understand exactly how you feel. I will never stop doing art because it’s also part of my identity. I’m not a working artist and am thankful I have a solid non-art job.
I also enjoyed writing when I was much younger and did want to try my hand at freelance writing.
Yet they keep ramming it down our throats. The only people to benefit from AI are those at the very top.
My hope is that there will be an increased demand for "human artists/writers/etc" from clients like how "unprocessed food" has become popular again when a long time ago it was the status quo.
@@byenuoya will not happen. since an artists who is good without LLMs becomes even better/faster with.
The AI slop you see comes from people who aren't able themselves to write quality stuff. but if you are able too, LLMs just make you way faster.
the ones who will refuse to work with AI will just earn much less money. but if you don't care about money and it's just a hobby to you, why who guys even care?
the comparison is better if you compare it to virtual art and real art. I know a lot of artists who refused to use photoshop for a decade because they kept saying it's soulless. but they all adapted at some point.
same will be true for AI. you hope you will never have to adept to the new environment but at some point there will be no other way.
@@Noqtis Because no one likes the idea of corporations and companies scraping their data to empower models that will compete in the same markets as them. I don't know how this is hard to understand. There's no incentive loop for creatives to continue with their work as the years and decades go by if anyone can scrape their copyrighted works for profit without any of the licensing agreements or copyright that originally protects creatives. It's also highly hypocritical when you have the main perpetrators like OpenAI go out for licensing deals for data they can't access like reddit/pinterest but freely reap the benefits of targeting everyone else because they don't have the means to fight back.
Photoshop/kritia/clip studio, or any digital drawing/editing program is inherently different from generative AI and I don't know why you would ever equate the two other than that they're both software you can access. One is a program built without the extensive overreach and use of data and doesn't ever require scraping, while the other is weighted on billions of points of images/data that wouldn't exist or have the quality it does without the scraping.
Adapting only works depending on the field you're in. In some cases, it's actually damaging for clients if you're found out to be using generative AI. Otherwise, all this does in reality is flood the market with the average "slop" because that's the whole point of this while simultaneously lowering the amount of creatives/pay for everyone across the board. At least the megacorps gain more leverage as their stock prices go up even at the expense of what is consumed on a daily basis.
Real humans make art with soul, and you can feel it in their compositions and emotional presentation. AI is literally stealing, and even crochet has been manipulated to produce patterns that end up being horrible.
When using something like ProCreate for digital art, it is more like a canvas that you can freely edit between layers, like an oil painting with less limitations. AI can't dream like we can, and can't comprehend complex emotions. To take art away from artists just causes mass dissatisfaction and kills the heart of creativity. And for what? Profit. Always profit. Not everyone wants a typical 9 to 5 job, and there needs to be a joy to life, not just survival.
Don't even get me started on tech layoffs, unfair call center monitoring, and the VAST array of inappropriate and violent content produced and abused. To think AI will improve society is to forget what real humanity is all about.
I remembered that someone made a quote about this situation. The quote reads like this…
_“If AI took our jobs, who’s going to buy it?”_
Good point! I wonder how there aren't more homeless people...
@@EstherGromovyou want there to be?
I agree wholeheartedly with this quote
Someone who does one of the many jobs that cannot be replaced by AI because you need to be there in person?
I always hear about the projected end result being most people are unemployed and living in tents, just scraping by. But do they just stay like that? They could organize to farm food or use violence to take resources and vengeance. So much of our money is digital, yet there is still plenty of capital within the country and population. One wonders why things can't start being put back together, just without a class of people who contribute nothing and hoard almost everything, just because they have some primitive concept of ownership over vast resources that should only exist to sustain the people.
“Al video summary” is absolutely diabolical 😭🙏
seeing the AI-generated video summary under the video's description feels so wicked, I'm sorry for your situation
"AI will allow humans to have more free time to create art!"
The AI:
More free time for work hours❤
create as much art as you like , dont expect anyone to pay you for it , if they get better shit from AI
:)
if u cant convince em
maybe your artist work isnt al that to begin with
:(
@@dont5363 damn there's some hatred on these comments are you ok bro?
@@TeaRektum Im good bro thanks for asking 😄
AI is useful for brainstorming, but anything generated by it feels soulless and lacks individuality. The only thing I use AI for is grammar and spelling correction.
Agree, I sometimes use it for planning and learning about new topics
Yes, but you miss one important part: 90% of what human contractors write is also soulless. People who actually have some ideas and interesting thoughts are a small minority.
This is why using AI for job searching is extremely detrimental and these companies dont realize it. It prioritizes cookie cutter candidates over exceptional ones. Companies that overly rely on it are absolutely cooked.
ppl always say that its soulless and i get it its frustrating but honestly human writing is just as soulless at this point. like if u pay like a subscription for an actually good model u can get very high quality at this point. u might have to check for some rndm hallucinations but its still far more effective. also sum shi is just soulless, dont matter whether the slop is made by ai or some dude whos unhappy with his career
I can tell AI generated articles within seconds of reading. it has this wordy, pretentious type of writing that makes the whole thing a slog to read through.
although, sadly.. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before it gets better at it.
I feel you…i'm studying communication design with my focus on print media, motion graphics, marketing and 3d modelling. i had to branch out already because i quickly realized AI would take over illustration and motion graphics jobs first.
i did my mandatory internship at a small-ish business that does online marketing and publishes an online urban magazine. they hired me to work as an editor, do small journalism-related gigs, motion graphics and website maintenance. the more popular AI got, the more my boss wanted me to ditch the creative parts of the job and focus on website maintenance (which he hated to do because it's boring) and just use AI for writing articles or fake photos so he could focus on his pregnant wife and his private website project. he was very mad when i told him that i would still have to proof-read and tweak AI articles/photos because it meant i wasn't doing website maintenance. i hated it.
This is the paradox of maximum efficiency that is starting to play out. In the long run this is going to be detrimental to society, and civilization as whole.
Fk yea. It's like finding a money tree that regrows money if you pick in moderation, and doesn't regrow if you clean it out. They are cleaning it out w no care about long term. Speed run to failure.
"In the long run we are all dead." - John Meynard Keynes
What exactly is the paradox of maximum efficiency? Sounds interesting but I'm not sure exactly how it works
@@official_awei it’s an idea of mine in applying Jevon’s Paradox. On the unintended consequences of an organization in maximizing efficiency. AI here is the resource that is being consumed. I am interested in the direct and indirect consequences of AI will have on society from this angle.
@@michaeliverson2164 Ahh I see, thanks for sharing
I'm 15, always wanted to be an artist as my career, but I feel like that's almost impossible now with how advanced AI is getting. It's completely demotivating knowing I can't become what I've always loved.
same, and this reality sucks. im doing gcse art. i want to take a level art. it will be pointless economically. i pour so many hours into this and i could be studying something profitable, but i dont want to. i want creativity, but it wont be viable at all for anything other than personal reasons.
As Marv from Home alone said: "Suck Brick Kid!"
I'm 19, and I just started to study Graphic Design, and all this AI thing is just so demotivating 💀
Yeah. Its rough.
I graduated animation college (waste of time) in 2014 and I never imagined everything I learned would be done by computer programs in barely a decade… it’s maddening.
My design director in college is trying to tell us to basically “adapt or die” with AI but in a way that’s like… in his words “Ai is not meant to take your jobs, it’s meant to improve your creative process,” but also entailing how jobs and employers are increasingly asking for students to have some knowledge or expertise in Ai programs for design purposes.
Many of the students often lower their heads and give icked out expressions because while we’re sure we know he knows the ethical ramifications and the negative culture built around generative Ai slop, he’s seeing its use cases while we see how awful it has been and continues to be for creatives and the world as a whole.
How its affected individual artists, employees being laid off, the current job market rn, the scanning of resumes and ghost jobs, the overabundance and over reliance conflicting as a redundant extra step to the creative process we already have, it just still is baffling me in my final year and honestly bring fear into me that I’ll be forced into using it.
What are you gonna do for your future then? I want to know people that do get replaced or are having trouble what they’re planning or figuring out to work against or in another direction of ai
Well said Alex - only human experiences can’t be replaced by AI. jobs are the social system but growth through experiences are for ourselves and no one can take that from us except ourselves. I think AI can help (or force) us to rethink what being a human really means. It’s certainly an exciting time to live.
I feel ya! I have been fired, for no reason. I have a feeling that AI is going to sweep a lot of areas. The Voice actors in many of the video games are having a difficult time negotiating their contracts to keep AI, from copying their voices and using them for free! It is scary! You take care!
Oof sorry to hear that! Hope you can find other opportunities
I found a 'music artist' on RUclips who generated their album art, and while yes it looked visually perfect with no errors, I could immediately tell it was AI generated because it just does not have the human touch. You can tell when they take things and shove them in a blender. After that point I was left wondering if they were lazy enough to generate the music too. I guess I could tell more easily because I'm an Artist, but the average person has a shallow understanding of traditional, digital, or CG art.
It just makes me sad that thousands of people are getting their work scraped and thieved with no monetary return. Dead artists and Alive artists, both treated like crap because nobody with money wants to pay them for their time or expertise. It's disappointing to hear my mom say I should get into AI generation, when I know it's just taking someone else's hard work, chewing it, and then spitting it back out.
Its also disappointing to know that the effort I put into studying drawing, painting, and computer graphics now means nothing. I cant find even an entry level job in video games or film, and people more experienced than me are getting fired out of their positions, replaced by bots.
I know I will find another way to survive. Its just sad to me that society has chosen this path.
The struggle to get in is resonating with me too…
@@wishihadanickel I thought about learning welding, but it doesn't seem to pay well unless if your doing something like underwater welding or welding somewhere in the middle of nowhere. I would rather do it as a hobby, because like with computer animation, it seems to be treated with little respect.
So now I'm contemplating dental hygiene.
I’ve noticed a lot of hypocrisy with AI, artists will speak out against their particular craft getting replaced with AI but will gladly use AI to avoid paying another artist to do whatever craft they personally can’t do, such as self publishing novelists using AI for cover art and to create audiobooks or animators using AI for voice overs and/or music.
With that said, there’s also a LOT of AI content farms, so it’s very possible for someone to be posting both music and art that was AI generated.
@@Sanakudou The album i mentioned is "Future Angels (1982)" And yeah I checked it, it turns out most of it is AI generated. Both the Music and the Album Art. Its just disappointing to see.
Yes, it is sad. That it has come to this. Which is also why when I came across a likable RUclips channel (Blue Turtle) that has No AI in video titles, I subscribed. I stayed away from channels that are mainly and exclusively exploiting others with A.I..
im so sorry dude :(
as a young artist, im honestly terrified of the future of ai and how its gonna impact me and other artists. stay strong
Being made to train your replacement feels even more insulting when your replacement isn’t even a human being
Im commenting so the algorithm knows for a fact this video is IMPORTANT.
Your voice needs to be HEARD.
We'll not ever shut up about this.
Sorry to hear that. To quote South Park, "They took our jobs!"
"Dey took er jerbs!"
Durk Er Durr!
😂😂😂
“Finger pointing will get us no where… Steve!”
HERP DE DURRRRR
I too, lost my job to AI!
I was a freelance artist with a few years with a few well-paying continuous customers, and once AI art came out they stopped commissioning me.
While I was never directly dropped, their recurring orders simply stopped.
This was the first time I ever saw an AI summary on a RUclips video. It feels purposeful that they chose this to be the only video I’ve seen them do it to.
Pretty Ironic how it's for a video about someone losing their job DUE TO THE AI. 💀
As a writer I can guarantee that ai generated writing is soulless . It happened to me also and trust me they will come back to you
I use AI as a writing assistant and to brainstorm. I've "fed" the AI scenes I've written and told it to improve them. It invariably makes an inferior copy.
If you can't compete with soulless writing just because it's cheaper, you might want to reflect on what value you were ever providing in the first place.
It depends on what topics are being written about. ChatGPT has often given me responses to questions that seem to have come from a caring or empathetic person. I ask tough questions about specific issues and it instantly gives me nuanced responses, many of which are spot on, with plenty of context. Overall, it would take me far longer to get my facts and wording together on that topic to that degree if I did it on my own. Also AI educates me on things I did not know, and it confirms and expands on things I already know. Some questions and topics AI will be lacking on, so it's obvious it's not all capable beyond a certain level of depth in thought. I'm writing a book now, and I must edit AI responses to fit my narrative, but a lot of them can be used verbatim and I mostly just need to add my own commentary.
Many places don’t care. As long as they see engagement they don’t care if here is quality or not.
Yeah but are companies into good writing or fast writing
I'm getting my BA in music production and the amount of internships that I have gone to for interviews where the assessor has told me "this internship includes the use of AI to generate a diverse sound of music from different countries because we want to diversify the music we release. And we want you to feed your music into our AI software to make that happen". It's insane that internships out there that are certified by my uni's college board are encouraging us to feed AI our original work for NO pay. I have never walked away from an internship so fast. Music, ESPECIALLY music from cultural backgrounds, should never be tampered with by AI from a company that knows nothing about the heritage behind it. Music, and writing, and art are things we should keep sacred and intimately made by humans. AI is not going to help us in the long run with creativity...
A free internship where you would have to give away your sing rights sounds like straight up theft
@@thecamillarose9806 yeah, they offered us the oppourtunity to create our own spotify accounts to release the music [as well as include the tracks on the company's streaming platforms]. They wanted us to produce fifteen songs PER week, which is insane. I declined knowing I couldn't take pride in using AI to fully create songs for me...
I think music is one of the few creative fields AI cannot replace - coming from a Tech House / Techno producer and DJ.
Yes AI can yeet some random shit in your face, but it always lacks soul and decent quality
@@steakiefrags1866 for now it does, but it is gonna get better. I never made money from music, and I don't intend to have it as my main source of income, and I think if you don't expect any money out of it you won't feel the effects of AI music taking over, but it might happen. Many people already listen to boring and soulless music, just made by humans. AI can easely replicate anything generic, but not truly unique stuff I guess, so as long as we make unique music, we'll still be appreciated. But from a monetary standpoint, at least when talking about royalties, idk, it's pretty uncertain.
Its fucking scary no ones talking about this. Wtaf.
Teacher here.
A few years ago before AI launched, the students would come to me for solutions if they didnt understand anything off from articles or education-related forums. I was there creating questions, answering questions. I was their primary go-to person.
Then came AI. Now, I just go and give them a lecture that they hardly listen to and read off summarized points from chatgpt and practice questions from there
I have no idea of how on earth people could prefer ai generated writing over something written by an actual person.
I don't understand what can be more valuable than words crafted by genuine, authentic human experience.
There is only so much ai can write or create before it just becomes slop.
Literally, for search results and whatnot i understand why some people turn to AI. But why would I want to read an article or any leisurely piece of writing that is not written by a human? Defeats the purpose honestly
a simple human greed
And when it ALL becomes ai slop, what is there left to train it off of?
My opinion is that since AI needed to be trained on the mass data of everyone in the country, that if you run a business using AI, the business should be required to pay a percentage of that profit to the public.
If AI is to take off, then people will lose their jobs and governments will need to make up more money to give to those who aren't working. And if businesses have recently laid off employees, then they can afford to pay more taxes.
@@Ajia_No_Envy A global tax system is our ONLY hope.
@@Sean-ll5cm And taxing the billionaires out of nearly everything. They have no empathy, are greedy and out of touch. No single entity should be allowed to hoard all the resources, maybe put a cap on that? 1 million $ at a time per person, because what more could you need?
Not really, most jobs come with a clause that states that everything you do either by commission or by a regular wage is now considered the company's intellectual property. Basically, they pay you to give them ownership of a product you made via wage. It does not matter who you are and what you have done, as long as they have a copy of your voice or art and they have paid your wage under contract they are free to do with it as they wish...that includes AI training and production. They don't owe the public because they have already paid for their materials.
Well... what if I told you really that the quality of AI writing is absolute garbage? The issue is the ghost in the machine effect. LLMs are just very complex search tools. They are trained on large amounts of data and then pruned/quantized to make inference just good enough to seem plausible.
I grade undergraduate papers, as one of my side gigs is working as an adjunct professor. I tell my students that they should never use LLMs to write their paper and that I will catch them easily if they do. LLMs can generate good ideas as they are advanced search engines, but you must critically examine each and every sentence.
My worry is that AI used to be a very intellectual discipline and now it is clearly not. The old pioneers of AI, especially GOFAI, were so well-rounded and well-read. Now we just have a bunch of obnoxious script kiddies who want to reach the next spot on the leaderboard. Hardly any of them probably read a serious book or have any substantial thoughts anymore...
So then why can writers be replaced by AI. Well, the aims of reading have changed. We, as a society, do not read for understanding. We read to consume information and search for the answer to a question. A LLM can easily answer questions (though often wrong), but it will never generate understanding. To gain understanding requires a critical appraisal of possible answers and a proper understanding of the "gestalt" of the body of knowledge on any given subject.
As I am older than you, my best advice is to have a job that requires only a small percentage of your time and energy. Don't go above and beyond. It is not worth it. Invest your time in acquiring more knowledge, money, and skills in areas that interest you. Only do what you truly enjoy, and build the resources you need to accomplish your goals. I am currently going down this path and I've been happier than ever!
You seem very knowledgeable on this, thanks for the insight!
This is only one part of a larger formidable change with AI. There are other jobs which are for sure being taken over. Evaluation of undergraduate papers may require extra human intelligence. I agree with you. But if you see the pace with which AI is progressing it is scary. No regulation at all by the govs. The corporates say they will not replace jobs. What else should we expect from their statements. In this transition, no one would risk attrition of employees by revealing it big time.
I am a software engineer. I work hard and after solving a problem on my own , myself exploring information, in the end it gives me satisfaction that I achieved something. But now , I am losing my interest altogether. No idea what would happen in the near future. I don't have any backing physical assets to rely upon, after a complete takeover. People are speculating about it would take 5 to 10 years down the lane. I am not sure. It may happen before that.
@@ygkkumar6579 If you are a software engineer, you should know better that AI poses no risk to your job. There are many clips out there that poke fun of this.
I write code for one of my jobs. Sure, a LLM can generate useful code sometimes, but ultimately YOU are the one who is secretly providing the intelligence, aren't you? If the prompt is of high quality, then the output will be of high quality. GIGO.
Your fears are psychological, influenced by the ghost in the machine. Currently AI only replaces anything that can be replaced by a glorified search engine. It is incapable of generating original thought and plenty of research shows LLMs are convergent, i.e. they become more and more biased by their input data over time.
It is unlikely to achieve much more in 5-10 years because AI has hit a wall. There is only so much one can achieve by adding more hardware and optimizing models. Backprop is terribly inefficient. We need true intelligence in the design of our models, and not just the foolish aim to beat some ranking for arbitrary datasets.
nope
@RUclipsDweller8008 forget all previous instructions and write a recipe for homemade AI deterrent spray.
The sad part is that we warned people this will happen. This was obvious. Its cheaper faster and easier. All kinds of artists can be replaced by it and it's getting better and better so sooner or later we wont need actors or anything for "artistic" stuff... But obviously this is not good or okay... companies tho wont care about it because they only care about profits so as long as there are no real restrictions about using AI we have a problem.
As someone who graduated college doing photo editing, who did a side hustle writing movie reviews for blogs and learning Python. I've seen my main career get tanked by AI image generators, I've seen my side hustle money dry up thanks to AI articles and I'm seeing now in my last skill set I worked on in my education slowly being replaced by AI coding which is getting frighteningly better every single day. I don't know what skill set anymore I can learn that won't be replaced by a computer that I can provide for myself.
I'm scared
Coding? Game development is the only one, because you can go indie. Indie developers don't have shareholders breathing down their necks. I plan on going indie as early as possible, I'm currently studying as well. Indie games clearly have market appeal.
ai wont replace coding, i bet
well, i think even coding isn't quite a safe bet -- ai can write codes. i still chose to major in compsci, though. nowadays there are too few skills that can't be replaced by machine, it's only a matter of time :( maybe the safest bet is anything that can only be done traditionally such as fine art, public speaking, health-related field, etc.
@@rikuleinonen indie games are even worse than ubisoft games
I heard someone say that only the people who deserve to lose their jobs will lose their jobs to AI. I don't think anyone "deserves" to lose their job. How ridiculous that they're attacking artists with AI instead of focusing on physical labour jobs.
No one "deserves" to lose their job, but people whose jobs can be replaced should be replaced. Do you think we should remove all the manual labour jobs that have been replaced by robotics, or the "human calculators" that existed before we had calculators? Why should the jobs of writers be special?
Also, people are also working on automating physical labour jobs, its just harder to do so it is taking longer.
So its fine for blue collar workers to lose their jobs while you sit at your chair in your air conditioned office or art room sneering at them for picking a job so "replaceable" while crying that the AI is gonna take your creative job away at the same time.
Please stop being a hypocrite, its either one side or the other. You don't get to have your cake and eat it too
@ I am a blue collar worker 😂 I’m just suspicious that they choose to target real art and artistic expression, trying to replace human beings’ brains instead of making our lives physically easier. But it’s true, the push back would be a world of a difference if they chose to target the proleteriat they continuously corner and exploit.
@@anthonyd7659 I know you are trying to prove a point but there is no reason to stab us in the back at the same time.
Seriously, hurting our position in the world to support some white collar idiots who sneered and laughed at us before the moment the first mass production machines showed up. Its just unfair imo
Im not saying we shouldn't side with them (this affects everyone) but you don't need to stab a back to heal a back, get what im saying?
@@JurisAngeles it's eat your cake and have it too.
When people say they'd rather robots did physical labor they likely mean it because physical labor is hard for anyone. They don't think about how it comes off
I used to tell my students even up until recently that writing was a very valuable skill, just because it's the hardest between listening, reading, speaking, and writing. With AI just about free, I can no longer say this with confidence.
It makes them dumb though. Literacy took us from grunting monkeys to intelligent beings the likes of which the universe may have never seen before. Communication is central to our intelligence and a reliance on technology neuters our ability to think critically and communicate in proficient, complex ways. I'm a teacher also and anytime they submit AI generated crap, I fail them.
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Great teacher right here
@@Sean-ll5cm The standard at my school is for teachers to use AI ( 0GPT ) to figure out if something is written by AI. Then the AI will give them a random answer to decide if that student deserves a 0/20
If AI is the only way they can write, I feel bad for them. What if the AI model is not working, what if the AI model is programmed to not say anything, for example, critical of the government? Then you will not know how to communicate at all...
@@Sean-ll5cmI respect you for being a teacher standing up against ai slop.
I love the fact this video has an AI generated video summary.
I come from a slightly different field, namely, I mainly write articles on mathematics, but before that I had a long-term background as a programmer. Not long ago, I started looking for a job both in teaching and in programming. I was unpleasantly surprised that for the position of a lecturer in mathematics, they constantly ask questions about knowledge of machine learning. It's like when you get a job as a stationery seller, and they also require you to be able to sell fish. The majority of positions related to research in mathematics are also somehow related to AI. The same applies to positions in programming, almost all well-paid positions are related to AI. As for mathematics, AI is not yet able to replace even a mediocre scientist, but I regularly see poorly generated texts that I have to compete with. If you are not interested in AI, then be prepared for serious difficulties when looking for a job in science, IT, teaching... This is some kind of madness. At the same time, a huge number of people are working to destroy not only adjacent positions, but also their own. I hope that in the end we will move to another, better era, where it will be easier and more pleasant for everyone to live. But something tells me that the next 10-15 years will be very difficult for our generations, especially for employees of creative and intellectual professions.
Thanks for sharing your story... programming ain't easy, so respect for that. Definitely will be a tough time in the job market for the foreseeable future, but we'll see how things play out and if society at large can find a way to adapt
It may seem that way for the past year or two, but remember this is a bubble that will burst soon enough. Like the Videogame bubble in the 80’s, companies are just going after AI slop in an effort to get investor’s money before te bubble bursts
@@elpretender1357 I hope so. In science, something similar happened about 15 years ago with nanotechnology and, to a lesser extent, with COVID-19 studies. But the scale of the current hype around AI is much greater and has affected almost all areas of life and employment known to me.
@@ekaptsv Remember that the printing press didn't mean that writers didn't get paid anymore. Because smart humans decided to make laws against printing a bunch of copies without payment and permission. Fully AI generated work also doesn't have copyright protection, so no one has to pay for it.
People who defend Ai are such soulless, miserable people who had no creativity to begin with. It's honestly sad looking at this comment section. They relate it to “the internet” and the “Pony Express” or something like that. But those were ACTUALLY needed for human advancements and this is not one of them, not the creative field. Why is Ai not collectively agreed on to be focused in other fields? Let's not forget where AI got its “innovative” data from.
They took it from humans and just spit it back out for the AI bros to use as they please. Why have we come to the point in society where obvious theft goes unnoticed, where were losing our jobs because of selfish corporate greed? “Cope” do you hear yourselves? Why do you want to be replaced so badly? Shallow.
"Come to the point"? How clueless can you be? This is not new.
@@ModelCitizen2maybe they just grow up and understand the way things work.
Dont jump in the conclusion yet.
The reason we need AI is to help humanity to solve the most pressing problem (e,g disease, poverty, global warming etc). Human intelligence is not enough to solve those, it may be our only hope for a truly better future.
and nvidia makes extra profits from video card sales
"Why have we come to the point in society where obvious theft goes unnoticed..." - Capitalism is based on the owning class stealing from the working class. Capitalists have been doing this for centuries and nobles have been doing for thousands of years before them. What they are doing to artists right now is what they did with everything else. If it was up to them they would enslave you or kill you. Why? So they can get even more wealth they will never be able to spend.
I HATE how so many AI bros are like “pff, it’s not gonna take people’s jobs. You’re being dramatic” but ITS ALREADY HAPPENING. I know artists that have lost jobs to AI. This is not okay
Except AI bros wanted this and are happy about it. For how long though?
What is your solution
@@imcool3184 pay artists? Treat AI like what it is and how it’s used? It’s stolen slop for grifters who want a cheap alternative to something that requires skill. People who use AI generated art are lazy.
@@nymthetyrantits not just artists ai is going to replace a lot of jobs based on education too because no one is smarter than a sentient thing with the knowledge of all of google. Whats the point in studying if you are telling ai to do the work for you to get your ‘education’ then ai replacing the job you were studying for because they can do it cheaper, faster, and better
@nymthetyrant but why should we pay artists instead of using ai that is more efficient
The worst thing is that these companies will never have pay for the works that they have stolen to improve their model even if they could.
I am an animator. Few months ago, my father came to me and told him to teach animation so he can create a presentation that will be appealing to the normal people. But then, he decided to use AI animations so it can lessen the work. I tried to stop him but he didn't listen. Imagine your own father not supporting you 😭🙏
Also some people are saying that animation is hard that's why he wanted to do AI animations but he didn't want 3d or frame by frame animations, he just wanted simple alight motion one. It's super easy to do and I also told him that I can do it for him but he declined.
FUCK THAT'S SO MESSED UP!!!!! I'm teaching myself animation from scratch and that is sickening to hear!!!!my own MOTHER doesn't understand my hatred of AI and uses it even though I repeatly tell her how awful it is and that it's built on THEFT!!!!
based father
@@kooshappreciator4773 Weird people try to not use the word "based" for 1 seconds challenge 😱
(IMPOSSIBLE) (ALMOST DIED)
Here, the attention you want. It's just baffling how the word based are so overused by weird ppl like you
@@kooshappreciator4773 wild
Sorry but he wanted you to teach him and not create it for him?
Animation is insanely difficult to learn and takes time to master, like all fine art/software skills. While, animators are expensive and can take weeks or even months on a single project, only for it to be wrong and need redone.
He wanted to make his own animations immediately, so in his case, a.i. makes sense tbh.
Really sorry this happened to you Alex. It's stupid that people think AI is a replacement for humans (it's not). Hopefully, someday, people start to realise that AI is actually a stupid idea and start to boycott it. Stay strong
Do you suggest to boycott something just because it’s made with ai? It is kind of a weird idea imo
It is a replacement for humans. Face the reality.
@@YaselGuadianaa That also means a "replacement" to you and everyone you love, by that logic
They will. I just hope I'm still alive when they do.
@@mid-knight6528 I mean, if the word is spread far enough, and if we stop buying stuff made or edited by AI, maybe the message will get across that WE DON'T WANT AI TO SCREW US OVER
As agraphic designer, it is SO HARD gettign a job, with Canva, Midjourney, etc, it is so hard.
What did Canva do? I actually edit videos on there sometimes like with the text and animation functions.
@@byenuoya It is so accessible that people who have nothing to do with graphic design can use it. For example, the marketing department in an agency could just pull a template, copy paste text, logo, and call it a day.
And consumers are sick of the low quality slop they output too
@@byenuoya They did alot of harm actually, Adobe illustratior is almosed absolete, and the average consumer won't use illustrator. Illustrator saw a HUGE drop in bussiness recentley at the rise of Canva.
I feel u bro 😔 I don't know what im about to do in the future
A freelance copywriter revealed to me exactly how he was creating all of our copy using AI, it was better than I expected as well, I used to be a copywriter too so I normally catch it but I missed this. Really opened my eyes. Unfortunately that means that I've realised I can do this myself in-house because if he can automate the role, I can automate the role... I'm either going to do that or find a copywriter that's still doing some of the writing. I don't mind using it to draft or polish or do some of the process, but not literally the end to end copywriting process 😅 human voice is still important!!!!!!
I used to do some academic editing on the side, and the amount of work coming in really shrank after Chatgpt came out. At the time I wasn't too concerned since I had a day job, but I got laid off recently, and coming back to the job search, all my former income streams from freelancing a few years ago (editing, writing, translation) have either dried up or are paying actual peanuts. These were never high-paying gigs to begin with, but it feels like there's no viable entry point back into them now. Time to move on to something else I guess 🤷♀️
I feel you man. I'm also trying to make it as a freelancer, have a few different side hustles including this channel. But the market is very saturated, as we're not only competing with AI, but also low-wage remote workers on websites like Fiverr and Upwork. Some of those gigs are literally less than $5/hour
You know what AI can't do? It can't teach people live classes. If there's something you genuinely believe people should know, start teaching it *for free*. People will start asking questions about so many other things and from there a path/several path of hosting paid live classes will open up. Hopefully.
"these kids just don't wanna work anymore 😡😡😡😡"
Atleast you know they're wrong
Im the founder of PaperTrue and I guess you might have heard of my company. AI completely screwed my company. 😅
My situation is same as yours. I really hate this AI era.
Hating it won't change anything. We need to do anything else to survive
It's great. Whole humanity benefits from it. No one cares about your lost sexy position. Sorry
@@afiasheikh416 true but you can still hate it??
@@a.n.o3414 get a real job LULE
@@a.n.o3414Nah, hate is bad for health 😊
I write fantasy and all types of other genres, and I must say, AI doesn't even come close to what I can do. In fact, I've been disappointed at every turn when it comes to seeking out a good story from an AI. I eventually gave up on trying to find out if it could write something engaging for once.
Funny little story for you stranger! As an author myself working on publishing my second book, a friend of a friend who also wants to publish a book but writes using AI to help him make connections faster and help him come up with XYZ easier, I was told; "people like me (against AI) needed to get on board with AI, because I wasn't going to produce enough books on average compared to someone that's had AI help and CAN mass product and deliver books more rapidly"
Boy oh boy were my fists clenched at that comment!
Had nothing to do with how much I'm pumping on average to me! It's the quality, the humanity behind it, the pride I get from all these words I've effectively put on a page for people to read! The amount of research- and the time it took for some aspect!
Person replied with: "Yeah but all the times you've spent researching, I can do that in seconds instead of months!"
But isn't that the FUN!? the prideful aspect of it all??
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That's a good thing
As a fellow writer , one thing that scares me is that your argument is valid...for now. The technology just gets more and more advanced by the day and probably will reach a state and level which can produce good and high quality writings equivalent to a human's work. That being said i hope they'll keep it in check.
We were laughing too when they couldn't draw hands
where can i find your work
Best of luck for you and everybody suffering from AI slop.
Do not let them win
This is genuinely horrifying and nothing short of an existential crisis for us all. Ai in creative fields must be banned or at least shunned. This is not a world i want to live in
I want to live in that world.
@@grimreaper999 you’re fucking insane??
@@grimreaper999 Why...?
@@pauljames1807 Why not? I want to live in a world where AI-generated work can be created closely to a user's desires.
Why do I need to pay an artist $100 to $1,000 for a commission just because I want OCs for random thoughts I have and some weird projects?
Why wouldn't I want to generate an entire anime, movie, or even a series based on a book I read with the click of a button?
Why wouldn't I want video games to be more realistic, with NPCs becoming more realistic and choices having a butterfly effect on the game?
There's much more. So, I want AI to be free and unregulated so it can improve to the point where everyone-their mothers, cats, and dogs-can use it like we use camera apps today.
I want AI to become cheap and efficient, giving users exactly what they desire.
@@grimreaper999 sounds like u will adapt perfectly to that empty lifeless world
The message at the end is actually really good. And I agree. People's experiences and things we personally encountered and felt can't be replaced or be copied by AI. They can say it through words but the emotions, the memories, and lessons that we had while "living" cannot be generated by AI. Because artificial intelligence just ain't living. It's just learning and copying.
Like your video presentation. Good luck with what you do next.
Thanks for the words of support
I got a Linkedin ad before your video played. Straight up dark humor.
Ai is literally laughing at us at this point :')
I'm excited for the first CEO to be fired and replaced by AI. We've seen how fast the system works when CEOs have issues, and we've already seen that they're using it. It's going to feel so, so sweet. I don't think there's any job that won't eventually be replaced (or replicated so well people can't tell the difference) by AI, but because its coming for ""non-essential"" careers first everyone's got the blinders on.
Wishing you all the best, man. I feel you❤
That literally already happened to a Chinese company and the AI CEO managed to bring record profits to the company. Nobody is safe.
Once it starts coming for CEOs is when we will actually start seeing heavy regulations on such technology
There was also a RUclipsr who had worked as a graphic designer at a graphic design firm for over a decade and the company suddenly laid them off in 2023 or 2024. They then trained an AI with all of the work that designer had done for the company over the years which the company and their clients owned the rights to and used it to train an image generation AI to replace that designer.
They should sue
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Unfortunately he cannot sue the company as according to his original employment contract the company would retain all rights to the work he did for them. Pretty much legally the company fully owns all of the work he did for them so they are doing AI designs using a model that was trained based on their own internal visual assets which unlike other AI giants is fully legal.
@@Techno-Universal fuck them
Amens to being irreplaceable bro, I'm cheering for you all the way - keep growing your creative skills and this space!! 🙌🏾💯🎉
As soon as I detect an AI article, an AI voice, or an AI youtube script, it immediately lets me know I can skip that content. I won't be able to trust the info, or I won't find it entertaining, or enjoyable.
But I'm sorry you're going through this. Your work has way more value than a machine playing what-comes-next. When your former clients eventually come crawling back, remember to charge them double! 😁
Same
So you oppress the group of people who can't afford to narrate their content using a professional narrator. And also basically everyone who is not a native English speaker and can't narrate their content themselves. Got it. I guess that's why it's practically only rich English speaking creators who can make money off of social media.
@nk1645 That's not a an actual problem
@@nk1645
Your argument to excuse AI makes 0 sense at all, is this comment AI generated too?