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Yellow posted...

The silver lining here is that if/when it does take over programming jobs, it will be a problem for all of society as a whole. It won't just be the artists or 3d modelers that will be left behind.

Part of why I have a complete and utter lack of sympathy for the artists and programmers who are now realizing their jobs are at risk is that none of them gave a single solitary shit for the last 40 years when it was happening to everyone else.

Factory workers started losing jobs to automation. Tons of phone operators and consumer service jobs have been lost to automated calls and menus. Cashiers everywhere are slowly losing jobs as stores start installing automated ordering and pay kiosks/self-serve lines (and stores as a whole are losing business to online stores). The current push towards self-driving cars and vehicles in general is potentially going to cost a lot of drivers jobs. We've been slowly trying to automate literally everything we can for decades now.

And whenever anyone complained, the rallying cry has always been "Well, at least computers will never replace the human spirit and creativity!", along with "Lost your job, better learn to program then!" There's always been this sense of superiority and disdain from people who thought they were completely immune to being replaced.

Now the people who always said stuff like that have realized they can probably be replaced as well, and it terrifies them. And I can't find it in myself to give a single solitary shit.

If computers can create better works of art than humans can, then I'd rather have them do it. It can't be any more soulless than a lot of the content we've been getting for years now anyway.