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Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill by altmanaltman on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:26PM (#50063933)
Isn't it more like saying professional portrait painting is dead because everyone has access to a camera today that does a better job and costs significantly less? A phone camera is just an extension of digital photography, which is an extension of film photography, which first drove the massive shift in replacement and is most similar to AI as a metaphor.

Interesting read on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_...

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Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill by cesarvarela on Monday October 12, 2026 @06:39PM (#50064080)
Yeah, but also way more people are getting portraits than before the camera was invented—there’s a bit of a Jevons paradox there.
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Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill by My_Name on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:26PM (#50077241)
You get an upvote from me for introducing me to 'Jevons paradox', which I had not heard of before now.
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Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill by bonoboTP on Thursday October 15, 2026 @06:00AM (#50101477)
It's a big meme recently, to sound smart. But really, people use it 99% of the time to just mean the simplest application of supply and demand and nothing paradoxical. Jevon's paradox is about removing friction on one part of a network leading to overall more congestion or inefficiency in the overall system. It doesn't just mean "when a thing got cheaper, more people started using it".
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