They better learn it today than tomorrow. Even though it's might be painful for some who does not like to learn new tools and explore new horizons.

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mitthrowaway2 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe they're better off switching careers? At some point, your customers aren't going to pay you very much to do something that they've become able to do themselves.

There used to be a job people would do, where they'd go around in the morning and wake people up so they could get to work on time. They were called a "knocker-up". When the alarm clock was invented, these people lose their jobs to other knockers-up with alarm clocks, they lost their jobs to alarm clocks.

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non_aligned 4 days ago | parent [-]

A lot of technological progress is about moving in the other direction: taking things you can do yourself and having others do it instead.

You can paint your own walls or fix your own plumbing, but people pay others instead. You can cook your food, but you order take-out. It's not hard to sew your own clothes, but...

So no, I don't think it's as simple as that. A lot of people will not want the mental burden of learning a new tool and will have no problem paying someone else to do it. The main thing is that the price structure will change. You won't be able to charge $1,000 for a project that takes you a couple of days. Instead, you will need to charge $20 for stuff you can crank out in 20 minutes with gen AI.

	▲	GMoromisato 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I agree with this. And it's not just about saving time/effort--an artist with an AI tool will always create better images than an amateur, just as an artist with a camera will always produce a better picture than me. That said, I'm pretty sure the market for professional photographers shrank after the digital camera revolution.

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AstroBen 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't know if "learning this tool" is gunna help..