Who feels threatened by AI? Why would you feel that your job and livelihood is at risk when people use AI more (effectively saying it is more convenient / cheaper)?
Ok … It is still too early to discuss this, but why not start?
Some people are absolutely outraged that AI is ‘replacing artists’.
My argument: AI probably can’t replace artists* (or anyone whose contributions are genuinely valuable**)…
We need to differentiate between the ‘core’ of one’s creativeness and work, and the auxiliary aspects of that work.
Creatives need to focus on what they do best. There isn’t much use in trying to throw tantrums or in covering one’s eyes and not seeing the reality.
Mediocre / generic / lazy work might be replaced… non-essential work will be replaced.
The real question – however – that (angry) people should ask themselves: why can an aggregator with language capabilities (so an advanced google) replace you?
Did they use our data in training?
Probably… but who isn’t stealing our data?
The episode discusses aspects of this, and how we can (try to) make our work irreplaceable [extending ideas expressed in The Atlas of Worldly Wisdom]. There is a side note on non-productive criticism.
Finally, and to make a few people angrier, here are a couple of images that AI created, making fun of itself, and of people who are threatened by AI (circular, I know)…
In keeping with one of my arguments in the audio, I didn’t bother with selecting the better one (do share yours!)…
Listen to the discussion / podcast :
https://open.substack.com/pub/ahmadhijazi/p/ep-5-ai-who-is-getting-replaced
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The Atlas of Worldly Wisdom : A course about achieving levels of peak personal performance and creativeness. It is the tool to make sense of the (so many) super ideas about excellence and growth by integrating them into the Awareness-Intent-Creativeness (AIC) Triple Helix.
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