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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.

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[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

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.