"It’s about maintaining the human element in a craft that’s increasingly automated."

I mean, what can anyone do, anyway? We’ve been on a "quest" toward the total automation of work for decades! and unfortunately these reflections are coming far too late.

didn’t anyone notice what was happening all these years?

Talking with a musician friend, he pointed out that today, studying, producing, and releasing music is almost volunteer work because the vast majority of artists will likely see no return on their investment, especially with AI flooding the music platforms, so I really expect it to happen to many other jobs.

>majority of artists will likely see no return on their investment

I wonder if music is the best example, because if I recall it has been always like this for musicians. Never have I heard that in my, my parents or grandparents time Musician was a career you would get in for money

There's a difference between having an opinion that a particular future is unavoidable, and choosing to live in that world before it even arrives.

Not a single book on the NYT bestseller list is written by AI.

Going this route, what’s the point of of learning anything if everything is instantly accessible from an AI with working solutions ? So no learning = no teaching or teaching that feels useless. That’s a weird and dangerous road. Everyone should own this technology for the situation to be balanced, not private or country based. Because we make ourself kind of useless in the process we loose leverage and value and we are at the mercy of the powerful ones