Google Gemini for what used to be Amazon Alexa tasks, chatgpt image filters (that Studio Ghibli one?), YouTube AI channels putting out content like If Danny Devito was the little mermaid, if Linkin park sang song X... Etc..
The novelty wears off quick, though. I think it's really technically interesting and fascinating that these models can produce what they produce. I love learning about them. But as far as the videos themselves and such, even with that interest, I know that whoever produced the video didn't do much. That doesn't make me feel really engaged with it. It feels discardable. I was watching a claymation dark fantasy piece someone put together recently, shot on their iPhone, which required a lot of work. They are an amateur, but did a good job. And I felt a lot more engaged with it in its jankiness than any of the AI produced videos I've seen. I still think about it from time to time. All the AI entertainment is momentarily interesting at best but I don't think about it much afterward.
No one is going to get a billion dollar investment due to that. It's why all the corporate speak and marketing is harping on about productivity, robot takeover and deus ex machina in corporate language.
Normal people will use it for creative writing aid, scrapbooking and other extremely unprofitable non-technical stuff.
I mean those were the items my non technical friends shared with me so far...
Personally - i was able to get mockups of interior designs based on the photo of a building under construction using chatgpt - this would've cost me both time and money if i went to a real designer.
Gemini has been summarising meetings i could not attend (scheduling conflicts etc...) and saving me from hours of watching meeting recordings.
I was really skeptical of things because of the horrible results I've had 2 years ago with copilot and chatgpt, but things have improved drastically. To the point that it's already empowering certain people/jobs while having the opposite effect on others.
Is it perfect? Nope. The mockups did have weird glitches. But they were 75% there and good enough for the task I wanted. The meeting notes were as good as a real human.
So it's definitely eroding more of these kinds of jobs and so we are
