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Most of LLM/image generators are overhyped, but imo there is enough of a use case and a value case (if you want to cut down on paying people) that they will significantly erode the power of labor once more companies understand how to actually use them besides typing prompts into websites
Voice acting will become even more dire of an industry than it already is with voice to voice AI filters making it so a studio only needs to pay 1-2 voice actors to voice a cast of dozens
Art teams will be halved or decimated once more legal teams give the go-ahead for using image generator finetunes to make specific use generators that pump out their exact desired style with only minor manual touch-ups needed. The outcomes would be borderline indistinguishable from their usual art, but now they have to pay much less people for the same work.
Artist contractors will similarly be racing to the bottom against the bottom threshold of 'literally free' (they already are atm really)
Data entry jobs will be eroded.
Translation work will be heavily eroded.
Lower level modeling and filming jobs will be heavily eroded.
Higher level programming work will still be in high demand but entry level stuff will be under valued and hard to find.
All of that pushes more people into other fields looking for work, and thus erodes the labor power of those as well. Things get shittier and we get a lot of ugly things to look at.
This will never happen because the world required to produce the computer power for this would have already burned to ash. Americans already overuse energy astronomically compared to the rest of the world and now every American using an environmental calamity to produce adlibbed slop is just part of the imperialist plan to further climate change to pummel the Global Majority.
Literally none of the AI techbro chuds will tell you what's required to keep a room of 4090s chugging when the same task could be performed with a well written shell script. They only talk about how AI is going to change everything the same way how a Zionist talks about how Eretz Israel will change everything, just all vibes to conceal the environmental war that starts with illegal mining in the Global South.
Sounds like the road to barbarism
For voice acting, look back to cartoons of the 50s and 60s where there were only 1-2 people doing all the voices for a cartoon. The same actors were re-used everywhere.
The only reason there is a 1:1 character to actor relationship now is marketing - cartoons are now big movie money makers and producers think that hiring big names will sell more tickets. If instead the stars are chatgpt, I don't think this will sell the tickets and it won't work the way they think it will.