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troupo 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, prod...

An oft-cited quote goes something like this: "we wanted robots/AI to automate boring, routine, meaningless jobs to let people be free to pursue arts, music, creativity. It's a sad state of affairs that AI is taking over arts/music/creativity stranding people with boring, routine, meaningless jobs"

jamil7 4 months ago [–]

> It's a sad state of affairs that AI is taking over arts/music/creativity stranding people with boring, routine, meaningless jobs"

So far it’s not though.

troupo 4 months ago | [–]

Oh. It already is. Artists are already saying that a lot of commission work is drying out (e.g. illustrations).

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