This is partially a repost of my comment in the news megathread but not really.
OpenAI just announced Sora, a tool for creating video from text, and the results are really fucking good (especially compared to state-of-the-art AI video generation tools), and this has me thinking about job security again.
Generative AI is already displacing workers.
A study surveying 300 leaders across the entertainment industry reports that three-fourths of respondents indicated that AI tools supported the elimination, reduction or consolidation of jobs at their companies. Over the next three years, it estimates that nearly 204,000 positions will be adversely affected.
The Concept Art Assn. and the Animation Guild commissioned the report, which was conducted from Nov. 17 to Dec. 22 by consulting firm CVL Economics, amid concerns from members over the impact of AI on their work. Among the issues is that concept artists are increasingly being asked to “clean up” AI-generated works by studios, lowering their billed hours and the pool of available jobs, says Nicole Hendrix, founder of the advocacy group.
“We’re seeing a lot of role consolidation and reduction,” Hendrix says. “A lot of people are out of work right now.”
According to the report, nearly 77 percent of respondents use AI image generators enabling, for example, individuals to upload landscape photos to virtual productions screens or speed up rotoscoping in postproduction. They have applications in 3D modeling, storyboarding, animation and concept art, among other things.
Generative AI displacing workers isn’t some future hypothetical, it’s something that’s already happening right now, and as someone working in a field which is vulnerable to automation by AI tools, I’m really worried that OpenAI (or some other company) is going to create a new tool that just completely puts me out of a job.
Is anyone else worried for their job? Is there anything that can be done?
Im not worried for my job. Its likely to be one of the ones that cannot be automated away. You cant get robots or artificial intelligence to climb under a house to chase water leaks. You arent going to get a robot to develop a feel for operating sewer cleaning equipment.
I do fear for some jobs. Things dealing with language - proofreading, writing. Things dealing with maths. Things more related to having an actual brain, which i do not possess.
But then again, im just a dumb guy and have shown time and time again that i dont know shit.
I am worried about the death of the arts and sciences mostly, those seem to be the jobs most threatened.
I’m guessing that at our current state of collapse people will revilt against this stuff soon. (At the risk of saying “anyday now!” lol)
Part of my work is in writing, thankfully not much of it. But I can tell you they are going to massively lay off writers in the next couple years and then hire them back five years later.
They’re going to try to rely on AI writing but AI writing doesn’t fucking say anything, it just riffs forever and avoid committing to real statements. Companies are going to get sued for lying on accident, and they are going to realize that people don’t trust what they say anymore.