AI was sold as a tool to liberate humans from boring work. Somehow we got the opposite: humans lose creative jobs while machines mass produce disposable content nobody asked for. What an inspiring future: fewer artists, fewer writers, fewer careers, and an infinite ocean of algorithmic sludge.

My boss constantly says, “Use AI,” and after a whole day of prompting I have a large body of work that basically isn’t mine and I receive zero satisfaction from it.

The customers can tell and the ones who have the ability to look elsewhere do, leaving only low quality and desperate customers.

Nah, they wrote the request with AI and aren’t really certain why they asked for. Then have AI evaluate the proposals, write the questions. It’s all absurd.

AI slop in and out. What a joke. Stupid meat proxies.

I’m being told to use AI more and more too and I’ve managed to get by without selling my soul to it but idk how long I’ll be until I get let go just because I’m not dumping hundreds of thousands of slop code daily. I’ve been hearing more and more coworkers talk about how they haven’t written any code in weeks and are now just checking up on their agents occasionally and it’s filling me with actual existential dread and depression. I’m positive it’ll all come crashing down but if it’s not soon then maybe I’ll drop the career I’ve wanted nearly my whole life and take up farming or something because watching vibe coding infect the whole software field makes me want to shoot myself

I genuinely think I’d have preferred no-code shit to have taken over instead of this because at least that takes some actual thought and effort to use

I feel like the more I use AI at work, the more I feel like it’s replacing the things I actually enjoy doing, leaving me with the leftovers.

That’s “zero or negative value algorithmic sludge.” Nobody wants to pay for it, often having it around devalues the experience, the platform you’re trying to sell it through and devalues all other products on that platform. There is some small minority able to squeeze money out of this I guess so they keep doing it.

As someone who plays live music, the live gig scene is on the up, I think because people are sick of the slop and want assured human connection.

I can see mixed medium performances like Cloud Cult becoming more popular as we move into the AI future.

Yeah, no one is going to go out of their way to buy an album by suno. No one is going to buy tickets to see two server racks on stage. Just sitting there with AI hallucinations flickering on a screen behind them. Even if I happen to find some of the sounds they produce appealing.

Every time I discover a seemingly new artist with an intriguing sound. The moment I find out that it’s some dumbasses “solo” project realized through AI. They’re blacklisted forever. Go download a DAW and at least put in the basic effort.

Anything generated, no matter how appealing it might seem in the moment. Is ultimately disposable trash. If it wasn’t authored and crafted with deep intentionality by someone you might identity or connect with. It won’t last and no one will care about it. People don’t listen to groups like joy division just for the sound of it. But because of the explicit creativity and brutal emotion. 50 years on and they are still relevant at least to other artists. Could even the same be said of Britney Spears, who hasn’t been around as long and is still alive where Ian is long dead? What chance does a parroting simulacrum have?

I agree with all your points EXCEPT a solo artist automatically getting ignored by me or blocked or whatever. If I had assumed that of Beck if he were a new artist today I’d have missed out on one of the greatest artists of modern music. I make sure I understand who they are and how they produce music before I put them in the permanent trash can.

I interpreted the “solo” (in quotes!) as a whitewashed term for someone prompting a music AI but I don’t think they meant actual solo artists which there are lots of good and impressive ones out there (obviously).

Yes as @pheelicks@lemmy.zip said it was intended as sarcasm quotes. So many of these prompters want to style themselves as artists of some variety.

Honestly I think the real takeaway is how much media was already just slop used to sell ads to begin with.

Yeah, I’d wager many of the people losing the jobs over this weren’t producing much of value in the first place.

Creative industry was already creatively bankrupt by pandering to all these weird fetishists online

I know, my fetish of good plot had me almost ousted from the family...

You never wanted good plot. You wanted childhood therapy in the form of a big screen because daddy didn’t love you and mom was busy to get another daddy

One year later… “Why doesn’t anyone want to pay for our slop tv show/movie/book/song/videogame? I wonder if our company can get a bailout from the government?”

That’s exactly what I foresee. I hope us taxpayers tell them to kick rocks because they were the dope that used that brain rot tool.

One of the worst stretches so far!

I recently learned Netflix and other streaming providers now create content with the assumption of being a “second screen”. They repeat plot points and dumb it down so that people scrolling on their phones and only halfway paying attention can still follow along. We’re down a bad path in general and AI sure isn’t helping. Maybe the next step is AI summaries so people don’t even have to watch the AI slop content in the first place?

Stranger Things Season Five is the most blatant example of this. It’s absurd.

This but he’s just staring at the phone in his hand which are the same ads, but mobile friendly!

This is like going to a sports bar that has ChiveTV playing on multiple screens.

AI summaries of videos are already a feature on Youtube so you don‘t miss or even watch anything!

“with similar job loss intensity and duration occurring only during the major economic recessions of 2001 and 2008“

Oh, yeah, we’re in a Recession, and we’re en route for Great Depression 2.0. Entry-level has been hard hit too, and youtu.be/9HFBShWH0pY?is=_YG0vb1KgNwT4mFa

Sometimes if you want to work you have to put up with some (unjustified) shit. It’s been this way for 50 years or probably even longer.

Yeah, I work on film and shit is bleak out here

If I had a button that would drop a nuke on silicon valley, I would press it in a heartbeat. We would be so much better off

It’s always the fucking suits who get the lion’s share.

This is the one underlying factor that has killed any respect I used to have for my country’s copyright laws. Ideally I would want the creative talent to get ownership of their work and all the legal protection that would entitle them to, but we’re already seeing how the laws are being flaunted for the sake of these AI chuds openly practicing the sort of “piracy” that people who are only sharing their files with no real profit incentives take the heat for

We feel similarly about this topic. You might look into donating to one of their unions. I donated to SAG for a long time in lieu of paying for Netflix et al. The money doesn’t go directly to artists but it does help keep their posture strong in negotiations and strikes. Of course I’m piss broke now, but it felt nice to contribute materially while it lasted.

Truly the most perverse aspect of Capitalism is how morality itself becomes its own commodity!

I’ve always said, AI is going to destroy human culture. Once enough of these talentless hacks get their sweaty little hands on a prompt, everything creative will evaporate from our lives and be replaced by this sterile homogenized bastardizaton of what we once were.

Essentially we will reach the uncanny valley of human culture.

And at this point, there is no going back. I’d guarantee that young people are already seeing no point in bothering to lean musically instruments, or traditional art.

Man. The future is BLEAK.

Not all of them. I’ve got three school aged kids, one plays guitar and saxophone, one plays clarinet and trumpet, one is just starting the trombone.

If anything, I am seeing the kids push back against this shit. My kids have an ear for and hate ai produced music; they get so angry about “clanker music”. They really value being able to make their own, and I love the constant noise of real instruments being practiced in my house.

Lots don’t care, but there are still many pockets of kids who hate all this as much as we do, and are pursuing a more analog lifestyle.

This is great to hear! And damn good parenting my friend.

Thanks bud, I’m trying. Shit ass world to do it in, but them and a lot of their friends give me quite a bit of hope.

I’m with you comrade. It’s tough raising a kid in this world but as far as I see it we’re playing the long game now.

Gotta believe that our way of doing things wins out over time. Along with other, more direct, strategies.

Bingo. How I see it too, it’s why I became a a leader in my kids activities too. Figure I might as well do whatever I can to help build a better generation.

I think creating art is a goal onto itself and it’s something people will do regardless of AI. Like, if I like to write, the act of writing is the important part, more than the end result. Similar for music, movies, etc. For all the ai generated slop that’s out there, there will always be that person who enjoys picking up a paintbrush and going to town.

The problem is, that person that picks up the pain rush will have no outlet for their craft because all the hacks will do it for scratch and people will become so accustomed to the slop that it will look/sound perfectly fine to them.

The future is fucked.