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The reason that society isn't currently freaking out about AI taking artists' jobs is mainly that we've historically thought of artists' jobs as inherently precarious, and so a new report of them being precarious for new reasons doesn't surprise anyone. The moment it takes a "so stable your mom wants you to study it in school" job, that all will change for the stable folks, but not the artists, unfortunately. After all, they're just artists...
(If you say that this means that I don't care about artists or their financial challenges, you're wrong. This sucks, I'm predicting, not endorsing, a likely scenario.)
Worked as a translator just over a decade ago and I can confirm that there was a point when the freelance market started flooding with lower-paying MTPE (machine translation post-editing) jobs which started to displace standard translation gigs. The advent of LLMs certainly meant that one could now forget translation as a career option.
5AlphaAndOmega
>I think image models are getting good enough at fidelity that you could, hypothetically, have some random guy take pictures of an event, and then postprocess them with an image model to make the lighting and perspective better without it being visibly AI-generated.
I have done this with the best recent models, and almost nobody has been able to tell. It is absolutely trivial to take a photo on a phone, and ask Nano Banana to "make it look like it was taken by a professional photographer using a DSLR applying expert color grading." Easy as that.
