I was just informed from my boss and HR that my entire profession is being automated away.

[highplainsdem]

131. I've encountered AI fans who think text generators should be viewed as just one more tool for

writers, little different from word programming software or even spell-checkers. All it does, according to them, is make writing easier, and if you don't think writers should use AI, you probably want them to go back to quill pens and make their own ink.

AI fans defending image generators will say just as silly things about artists rejecting those - oh, those Luddites must want artists to make their own paints. I read one article where an AI-using artist compared artists who wouldn't use AI to 19th century doctors who didn't believe in germs and wouldn't wash their hands (crazy comparison, I know, and she was widely ridiculed for it on Twitter several months ago).

They make these stupid comparisons because if they don't try to present genAI as just one more tool they're using, then they have to deal with the reality that THEY aren't doing the writing or creating the art, any more than they would be if they gave a few directions to another person to do it for them.

Real artists and writers know the difference, so their criticisms have to be labeled fear of change.

As if writers and artists haven't already dealt with and welcomed lots of changes. Ones that were for the better.

GenAI isn't.

That's cool that you had a writing circle back in the '80s and '90s, and encouraging friends...whom you should have listened to, and submitted your writing to publishers. Still possible, but now, dammit, those publishers are often overwhelmed trying to find real writers among what mucholderthandirt perfectly described as "a zombie horde of people who think AI is going to write great books for them, so they can sit back and collect their millions in royalties."

If we don't have widespread rejection of genAI soon, so much human talent will be lost. I found out this year that my favorite niece's oldest son, who just turned 16 and has been dreaming of a career as a videographer, was advised by his dad, who works in IT, not to count on many humans still working as videographers in a few years. It hurts to think of kids wondering if any of their dream careers will be left, as genAI takes over.