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Re:Less than 168 hours since Photoshop dropped the new “Gene... by kryogen1c on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @11:07AM (#36139224)
> If you're a professional artist who's invested years of effort in learning photoshop and it replaces "literal days of work" or you run company and it replaces "literal team members" $40-$100 a month is cheap.

No kidding. I have only negative things to say about Adobe, but that is a terrible argument. $100 a month to replace multiple $100k/year employees? That's basically the definition of technological advancement freeing labor to be more productive elsewhere.

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Re:Less than 168 hours since Photoshop dropped the new “Gene... by jackdawipper on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @01:29PM (#36141062)
the definition of progress. In IT we should be used to this. AI has been telegraphing its arrival for a long time. There should be no surprises to see jobs being lost in the name of tech advancement. Its been going on since forever. It is literally what computers do.
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