Was watching this latest Arch video where he compares the 'April O'Neil' that was in the latest TMNT property compared to a black April O'Neil he put together with AI. TLDR; the AI despite a few faults still made her hot and look capable in each compared to the frumpy troll the film got.
We know some of this is ideological that they want to lower the standards of beauty, but with AI becoming easier and easier to use that boomers are starting to use it, why pay for over compensated, lazy, unskilled vurtue signalling artists currently striking than just use a machine and then edit it a bit with 1 artist or AI again if it makes a third arm?
I honestly think AI is going to not really hit the blue collar jobs and heavy industry since if something goes wrong you need a human that can adapt to either fix it or turn it off to limit further damage. The service industry will be case by case like if there's been too much of an issue getting staff or with the staff there if it's more beneficial to turn it into a giant vending machine. But the one that I think will be obliterated in the west will be the Media industry, when all they do is repost each others works like a giant human centipede, why pay them when you can just get an AI to write it for a few dollars and it takes minutes not hours and doesn't require giant office's just a computer.
Entertainment is worse as I fundamentally believe we can easily have a lot of films that have the same CGI as the Final Fantasy film for cheaper than it would take to use actors nowadays. Just make sure you get a seperate AI to make the script good. We'll still get your Top Gun Mavericks, your John Wick or even your Sound of Freedoms as they appeal to customers but by large, I can see the bulk of western media being replaced with CGI in the next 2-3 years than a decade.
I don’t see this affecting Asian, Indian or even Eastern European media as much since they are still appealing to a customer base than preaching. I do think at the end of the current strikes, we are going to see a massive reduction in physical studio spaces and 'celebrity' actors and a rise in machine made Entertainment.
What I have found with AI is that you still have to know what you are doing. I did the work of an entire team in a week or two, but none of my coworkers could do the same because they lacked the skill set.
I see a quiet office connected to the house where white collar jobs get done. The giant office in the skyscraper is now one guy with the right skills.
For fast food, most of it is very automated anyway, the teenager is just cheaper. But, machinery that can divert and do multiple jobs will replace them. It will be a single guy in an office in the back who maintains everything. The area managers won't be needed because the restaurants keep in contact.
I see blue collar work like car mechanic getting a tech upgrade with XR teaching them how to fix things. I want a 3D printer for parts. More average joes will rent out a space to fix the car, and the idiot techs will either step up or not be around.
Some of it is slow going. Some of it is so fast my coworkers are actually scared of me.