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Every portrait painter wanted to kick the living shit out of every photographer they saw then shove their cameras up their asses.
All those people riding along yelling, "Get a horse, asshole!" To the people driving cars.
So many examples of sudden disruptive change in history. Countless. What they had in common was once the dust settled, more, different, new jobs were created. It's very difficult to predict what will come from this.
Certainly entertainment industry can adapt and still make money. Probably space industries. Robotics. Writing fluff to cram between advertisements on a website, stuff like that is out the door. Menials tasks in the office, gone. And just because it made money, that doesn't mean humanity actually needed it in the first place.
Just gotta go with the flow I guess. Much of what people fear about AI is still science fiction as well, so there's that.
I think the main difference between AI and the older examples is the sheer rate of exponential change. We're only at the beginning right now and already seeing every company pour literally everything they had out of 10 baskets and into a single AI basket. Jobs are already completely dominated by AI in the areas my friends work in.
It's hard to even imagine how much it could be dominating even 6 months from now. That's far too rapid for a society to adjust, compared to the manufacturing of cars and cameras.
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