For a startup, I now can solo it with the help of AI far beyond what was possible a few years ago.
This does not mean I otherwise would have hired a few juniors. More likely I would not have taken that business beyond the idea stage.
But direct massacres I can personally observe are in translation, copywriting and illustration. Yes, a good person can do better, but for a majority of cases AI has already become "good enough".
Then there is an onslought from just non-AI automation, in e.g. retail and finsncial services. This had been building for over a decade, but the pandemic lockdows exponentially accelerated it.
Like AI slop always looks or sounds the same... Generated videos/images are uncanny. Text is really easy to identify too and reads boring. AI is missing character.
On the thread of copywriting/publishing, my wife works in the field. She recently has had trouble with authors submitting low quality material - vague, nonsensical, lacking voice. I told her it sounded like AI and sure enough it was. I don’t blame her because she’s pretty offline. But the point stands that basically no one wants this crap. I don’t want your “one pager” that GPT pooped out, I want you to sit down and compose the problem in a digestible way, one that makes me think and one that shows that YOU have thought about it.
This does not mean I otherwise would have hired a few juniors. More likely I would not have taken that business beyond the idea stage.
But direct massacres I can personally observe are in translation, copywriting and illustration. Yes, a good person can do better, but for a majority of cases AI has already become "good enough".
Then there is an onslought from just non-AI automation, in e.g. retail and finsncial services. This had been building for over a decade, but the pandemic lockdows exponentially accelerated it.