I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job

Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by vunderba on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:09AM (#37552786)

I predict that the real market that's going to get absolutely decimated is the gig economy. The quality of AI may not be top notch but it's an easy drop-in replacement for one-offs that people previously would have farmed out to places like Fiverr (voice overs, logo, clip art design, copy editing, etc).

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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by fnands on Monday September 18, 2023 @03:47AM (#37553435)

100%. I know graphic designers who used to outsource designs to Fiverr who are now just using Midjourney. Faster and cheaper.

Also, large part of what used to be done with stock images. No need to search for the perfect stock image when you can just create it.

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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by latexr on Monday September 18, 2023 @05:21AM (#37553982)

> I know graphic designers who used to outsource designs to Fiverr who are now just using Midjourney.

You know graphic designers who instead of designing would pay someone else to do it? That sounds like a cook who serves food bought from another restaurant or a carpenter who sells furniture bought from a store.

Maybe there’s detail missing from your explanation (perhaps you meant they outsource illustrations?), but if you’re paying someone else to do the core of your job can you still stay that’s your profession instead of being a middleman?

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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by epups on Monday September 18, 2023 @05:24AM (#37554000)

Maybe the better analogy is a chef who has several cooks in different stations.

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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by fnands on Monday September 18, 2023 @05:52AM (#37554166)

Graphic designers don't often don't create every little thing that goes into what they do, and often don't do their own illustrations (there are exceptions, but this is usually done by dedicated illustrators).

Exact example I was thinking of: graphic designer does social media post for BigCorp, let's say Christmas themed. They're going to get an illustration from somewhere, do a bit of photoshop, add some text over the top, and then post it to social media (oversimplified, I know).

Especially for a small shop where they don't have full time illustrators a lot of the illustration work gets outsourced. These days, some of it gets outsourced to Midjourney.

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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by ilaksh on Monday September 18, 2023 @05:44AM (#37554114)

Everything is moving to the gig economy sooner than later. Including your job. Unless, as you suggest, it first gets replaced by AI.

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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by edgarvaldes on Monday September 18, 2023 @12:53PM (#37558707)

I like reading random blogs and articles about tv shows I follow. This week, more than one of this articles I found were AI generated. Pretty obvious, bad and formulaic content. Do I need to flag this websites from my end? Do I need to whitelist my sources? It's a shame.

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