> cause 99% of news and content websites are not the NYT or have the same constraints and reputation to uphold.
Ok, show me one meaningful publication doing this, that's what I'm getting at. I used NYT as my original example to illustrate you can't just fire a news room and replace it with a GPT bot. What business can you do this with, where writing is the core competency?
How about graphic design? Is there an example of a graphic design firm that has fired its designers and replaced them with Stable Diffusion et al and a single PM to achieve the same output? Or even reduced their head count because these AI tools have so dramatically improved productivity that one designer can now do the work of 2 or 3 or 10?
> It can still replace them where graphic design is not the core competency (small time web designers, logo makers, etc. working for small businesses, individuals, and so on.)
Let's work with a concrete example here. I'm going to work under the assumption that there is a self-employed web designer out there who, despite the existence of hundreds of template web app creators (such as Wordpress, Webflow, Wix, etc), no-code tools like IFTTT and Fiverr contractors on demand, has managed to carve out a full-time job for themselves designing websites.
In order to carve out that niche in the presence of already existing WYSIWYG tools and outsourcing services, they are already doing something different than just boiler plate web design. Before bots come for this web designer's business, these bots would first have to make these tools completely obsolete. And yet, I know of no one today suggesting that an ordinary small business bypass Webflow for ChatGPT + Stable Diffusion to create their web site.
If ChatGPT + Stable Diffusion is really the dangerous job-killing combination that everyone thinks it is, it first has to replace the boiler plate tooling and the Fiverr contractors. Then AI's capabilities need to expand to accommodate long-term client relationships, long term contextual awareness of client needs, realtime integration of marketplace demands, institutional expertise and deep product knowledge and awareness about many implicit things not explicitly documented for any GPT to consume (and not necessarily possible to document, either). It would need to have wisdom to understand when it shouldn't, in the context of often incredibly vague product requirements. It would need to be able to sometimes even forcefully push back against client demands and recommend an alternative path altogether.
These are the qualities of a good web designer (and indeed, any creative worker), and they're just a small sampling of the reason why the already existing boiler plate services haven't replaced the need for good people.