Love this post. I also work in tech and it’s hard watching the tech side of things happily explore LLMs and SLMs while also being part of the creative community and watching folks lose income and and have their livelihoods jeopardized to the point that they aren’t sure they want to make anything anymore.
The sad thing is, we’ve been using products for years based on creative algorithms. Any editing software, any formatting software, any digital art software falls into this (like previously mentioned) For at least ten years, maybe more. But these things helped more than they hurt, at least from what we could see.
When computers first integrated into the workforce, it changed how so many things were done that it often displaced workers until the workforce learned how to use them to their advantage. LLMs/AI is the same course altering event. And it won’t be the last in our lifetime. Tech is moving faster than ever. We’ve only had computers in consumer hands for 50 years, what will another 20 or 30 bring?
Love this post. I also work in tech and it’s hard watching the tech side of things happily explore LLMs and SLMs while also being part of the creative community and watching folks lose income and and have their livelihoods jeopardized to the point that they aren’t sure they want to make anything anymore.
The sad thing is, we’ve been using products for years based on creative algorithms. Any editing software, any formatting software, any digital art software falls into this (like previously mentioned) For at least ten years, maybe more. But these things helped more than they hurt, at least from what we could see.
When computers first integrated into the workforce, it changed how so many things were done that it often displaced workers until the workforce learned how to use them to their advantage. LLMs/AI is the same course altering event. And it won’t be the last in our lifetime. Tech is moving faster than ever. We’ve only had computers in consumer hands for 50 years, what will another 20 or 30 bring?