In cases like this I think it's better to say AI is eliminating jobs, not replacing them. As you note, the tech can't do the job, but it can do a job, for profit, that will result in other jobs going away. Much like the computer eliminated the job of the newspaper typesetter.
Some newspapers already have no local staff, and just publish content generated at some distant office by the owner, like Gannet. Give Gannet access to sufficient LLM resources and they'll churn out crappier crap. Even Sports Illustrated was caught using generated, complete with fake author biographies.[1].
Sports Illustrated was what I had in mind when I said that it has already partly happened.
It is going to be interesting if people will eventually realize that there is very little substance in the content, especially if the content continues to detoriate. At least Sports Illustrated was ashamed they got caught, and removed the articles.
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In cases like this I think it's better to say AI is eliminating jobs, not replacing them. As you note, the tech can't do the job, but it can do a job, for profit, that will result in other jobs going away. Much like the computer eliminated the job of the newspaper typesetter.
Some newspapers already have no local staff, and just publish content generated at some distant office by the owner, like Gannet. Give Gannet access to sufficient LLM resources and they'll churn out crappier crap. Even Sports Illustrated was caught using generated, complete with fake author biographies.[1].
1. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/nov/28/sports-illustr...
Elimination vs. replacement, fair enough.
Sports Illustrated was what I had in mind when I said that it has already partly happened.
It is going to be interesting if people will eventually realize that there is very little substance in the content, especially if the content continues to detoriate. At least Sports Illustrated was ashamed they got caught, and removed the articles.