It’s not that AI can replace them. It’s that LLMs can offer a hugely inferior version of what they do, and for a lot of people, that’s apparently fine.
Quite a few fields that previously had only the options of “good, quality work” and “not having it”, now have LLMs to offer the option of “substandard slop”.
And people like copywriters, translators, illustrators and other fields are rapidly finding out there wasn’t actually a huge demand for their good quality work, there was in fact a huge demand for “not nothing”, and that demand is being filled by the mediocre slop produced by LLMs now.
It’s not that AI can replace them. It’s that LLMs can offer a hugely inferior version of what they do, and for a lot of people, that’s apparently fine.
Quite a few fields that previously had only the options of “good, quality work” and “not having it”, now have LLMs to offer the option of “substandard slop”.
And people like copywriters, translators, illustrators and other fields are rapidly finding out there wasn’t actually a huge demand for their good quality work, there was in fact a huge demand for “not nothing”, and that demand is being filled by the mediocre slop produced by LLMs now.