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Re:Apple Says It Will Add 20k Jobs, Spend $500B, Produce AI ... by troupo on Monday February 24, 2025 @08:01AM (#43159042)
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"
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Re:Apple Says It Will Add 20k Jobs, Spend $500B, Produce AI ... by jamil7 on Monday February 24, 2025 @09:29AM (#43159930)
> 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.

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Re:Apple Says It Will Add 20k Jobs, Spend $500B, Produce AI ... by troupo on Monday February 24, 2025 @11:08AM (#43161148)
Oh. It already is. Artists are already saying that a lot of commission work is drying out (e.g. illustrations).
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