This really depends on what you consider “progress”. Some forms of AI are neat pieces of tech, there’s no denying that. However, all I’ve really seen them do in an industrial sense is shrink workforces to save a buck via automation, and produce a noticably worse product.
That quality is sure to improve, but what won’t change is the fact that real humans with skill and talent are out of a job because of a fancy piece of software. I personally don’t think of that as progress, but that’s just me.
gnarly@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Typographers saw the same thing when personal computing in the latter half of the 90s. Almost over night, everyone starting printing their own documentation and comic sans was their canary in the coal mine. It was progress but progress is rarely good for everyone. There’s always a give and a take.
bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 3 days ago
As another user said, typographers still exist. And, until now, computers weren’t really a threat to their job security. They were just a new set of tools they had to adapt to. But, if I was running a business and had little regard for ethics, why would I hire a typographer when I could just ask an AI to generate a new font for my billboard, and have it done in 30 seconds for free?
I get the argument that AI is a tool that lowers the barrier of entry to certain fields, which is absolutely true. If I wanted to be a graphic designer today, I could do it with AI. But, when I went to sell my logo to the small company down the street, I’d have to come to terms with the fact that the owner of that business also happened to become a graphic designer that very morning, and all of a sudden my career is over before it started.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 days ago
Except typographers still exist, we need them to create fonts that aren’t comic sans.