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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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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement.

Don't become as delusional as the grifters. Generated content is already a suitable replacement for lots of things. It's not so much about the quality of generated content (which continues to improve) as much about easily replacing the worthless bullshit that we're forced to produce (eg. cover letters, "art" serving capitalism, etc). The system is already built on fake nonsense. Generated content has always been a great fit for this system. The punishment of workers is just another bonus.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That's a really good point.

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This has also been coined the Gell-Mann [Amnesia] effect and is perhaps a kind of corollary to the Dunning-Kruger effect: incompetent people fail to recognize competence.

Truly intelligent people respect the work of professionals and experts in other fields. Or maybe, this is even fundamentally a respect problem.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

It's the same with all automation. Processed food is not as good as homecooked food, tailored suits are better than massproduced ones.

[–] grepe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

bingo! it also explains why tech bros consider AI good for everything - they are not really good at or familiar with anything themselves.

on a serious note: to put this in a specific example i will use programing. management/PO/business will have a vague ideas about what needs to be done. they have to explain them to someone in plain human language and let them figure out details of how to turn it into an algorith that does that. that someone has to fill in all the blanks, make many decisisions about unspecified details and implement it. but, in addition to that, they also have to make sure the code is delivered on time, on budget, it will remain easy to maintain and doesn't break anything important. those later details are not something the original stakeholders (business/management/POs) normally have to deal with. it's someone's else's responsibility. it's just annoying to them that they have to deal with another temperamental human and that human can take weeks to make even "simple changes" to their code (because they have to care about all those other things like maintainability)... so when a salesman comes over and offers them they can instead explain the problem to a chatbot and get the code in minutes the proposition sounds irresistible!

[–] SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 1 points 1 week ago

How is your Shift-key broken only in the beginning of sentences?? I'm not reading that.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And managers think it's good for everything except being executives and management. Except that's probably the one thing AI can do just as well as a manager who thinks AI is good for a bunch of stuff.

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[–] Zacryon@feddit.org -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Chances are very high that AI will indeed one day be good enough.

For know I wouldn't take it for any more than a slightly more capable rubber duck that can be useful as an assistance tool. Not a replacement.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are some truly talented people like whomever runs https://youtube.com/@NeuralViz who use AI as their main creative tool.

But you can tell that AI had zero part in writing the script for any of those videos. It was used as a tool, by someone with skill and creativity.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

But you can tell that AI had zero part in writing the script for any of those videos.

Yeah, cause "AI" doesn't exist. It has zero part in generating any content.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

AI does not exist? Have I missed something?

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