Was it the responsibility of the people who created automated, cheaper and better elevators to defend the job of these obsolete people ?
Not really.
The content and services provided by AI still needs those humans behind. Maybe when it’s all AI agents talking to themselves, this would make sense, but before that, someone has to write, edit and choose that content.
How can you say publishers are obsolete ?
If they would have respected the laws, OpenAI would not have been able to create AI models at all (as they are derivatives of copyrighted works).
So it's pure piracy of content at scale. The same with Veo3.
Is it beneficial to humanity ? Probably yes.
Is it harmful to content creators ? Absolutely but in the long-term, they have little chances to survive, no matter if legal or not, because this is both what the market and consumers want.
For example, these people on Fiverr selling blog posts, it was minimum 200 USD per blog post, and few days of turnaround.
Now with AI it's 0.01 USD and instant.
I think in the long term the highest quality content creators are going to find ways to keep their information out of AI training data, and put it behind walled gardens.
The problem I see is that when everything is iterative, and you kill sustainable incentives for new views, innovation disappears.
Is like the movies. We will get all budget towards remakes and reboots, and little new would show up.
Being an 80s guy, I remember many new movies coming out every year, and when they stretched beyond 2 or 3 films, people frowned.
Back to the future, Indy (the good years), Rambo (first 3), lethal weapon. Cool gems came up too (Last action hero?Terminator) even in loaded fields like simple action movies…. Star Wars, 3 films. Matrix. bond was the exception.
Now? mission impossible (8 films at over 2h), fast and mediocre franchise (20 movies), Marvel and DC movies (3 movies shot 30 different times), and everything else is a reboot. Almost impossible for new ideas to get through.
We are killing culture, innovation and human spark for some companies to make a billion more. We are feeding like factory pigs from generic slop, and as the factories grow they kill fertile ground for those who wanted to eat something cleaner.
The fact that is happening does not mean it’s right. It’s just we are accepting mediocrity as our guiding principle at 0.01 USD a pop…
And no one expects a "free job"; they just expect their work to not be used in ways that doesn't benefit them at all (but instead benefits someone else).
The bizarre analogies AI maximalists are pushing are boring and tedious to the point of bad faith.
But what do I know ... I'm just an "obsolete person" shrug