>>94550533The problem, at least in its current state, is that AI isn't actually good enough to replace people for the work that matters. It only serves as a substitute for the bottom tier, where entry level workers cut their teeth, learn, improve and find oppourtunities to move up.
AI can't replace a professional voice actor, and isn't good enough for major commercial art and illustration, but it's just, just barely good enough to squeeze out the porn artists with sub-1k followers making $20 bucks a month on gumroad and the amateur voice actors who don't have enough connections to break through the union nepotism barrier and need to scrounge around steam indie games for roles. And when you phase out those people you realize the stuff at the top--the shit that AI can't replace or fix, gets appreciably worse. There are fewer new people entering, because the lower levels of the ladder have been swept away, and those already entrenched just get more power over the industry's now limited resources.
It's not unlike how the tech sector replaced 90% of its labour pool with pajeets and plunged into a talent crisis now that it had nobody to replace the retiring upper echelons. Except instead of just fucking over dumbass tech companies you fucked over a whole fandom economy that provided nominally high quality porn for free. Things are getting worse and the only people who don't seem to notice are the ones too brown and impoverished to care.
