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recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen Al for script- writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen Al for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that Al can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.
It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen Al will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
AI only seems good when you don't know enough about any given topic to notice that it is wrong 70% of the time.
This is concerning when CEOs and other people in charge seem to think it is good at everything, as this means they don't know a god damn thing about fuck all.
I remember an article back in 2011 that predicted that we would be able to automate all middle and most upper management jobs by 2015. My immediate thought was, "Well these people must not do much, if a glorified script can replace them."
Yeah, other than CFO and most* CTOs, anyone in the C-suite is easily replaceable by an LLM. Hell, the CEO could be replaced by a robot arm holding a magic 8-ball with no noticeable difference in performance.
* Probably not the majority, but I'll be generous.
That's the whole point of the bubble: convincing investors and CEOs that AI will replace all workers. You don't need to convince the workers: they don't make decisions and an awful lot of CEOs have such a high opinion of themselves that they assume any feedback from below is worthless.
Not just a high opinion of themselves, they think everyone is as self-centered as they are, and any claims about needing human workers for the task by human workers is just self-serving and not caring about the work.