Every week, the online YouTube people have to come up with new ways to express the speed in which new developments in AI are progressing. They’ve already used up all the adjectives describing how busy this week was compared to last week. You can only say how it’s the most exciting week ever a few times before it all feels a bit hollow.
How can everything be a game changer… Every week. This past week seems to have topped previous weeks, but by now even the news of new developments in AI is old news. It’s crazy.
Ideas I’ve had about podcasts or videos seem out a date and obsolete by the time the edit is done. This video was created with its voice for free in under a minute.
When talent is no longer a roadblock to creative development, artists may suffer depression. If anybody can suddenly do the things you previously got respect for, and worked for, the existential purpose of your life may fall apart. Nobody is going to pay for talent and skill when a one sentence prompt obsoletes your entire lives work — for free.
We have seen advancements in technology since long before our time. Inventions have always made life easier or more accessible but this is really the first time that those advancements are obsoleting talents and skills across the board. Widespread. From music to create writing to art and video editing as well as pretty much every other industry that used to rely on real people with talent or training.
It’s society accepts that cheap and fast is the new way, and the people we used to turn to for all of this stuff need to find new jobs, that’s going to be a real problem because the new jobs are also gone.
