Someone in media claiming their entire staff waw wiped out by an AI company called 
Q.Ai
For context I work production in local news. Recently there’s been developments in AI driven systems that can do 100% of the production side of things which is, direct, audio operate, and graphic operate -all of those jobs are all now gone in one swoop. This has apparently been developed by the company Q ai.
For the last decade I’ve worked in local news and have garnered skills I thought I would be able to take with me until my retirement, now at almost 30 years old, all of those job opportunities for me are gone in an instant. The only person that’s keeping their job is my manager, who will overlook the system and do maintenance if needed. That’s 20 jobs lost and 0 gained for our station.
We were informed we are going to be the first station to implement this under our company. This means that as of now our entire production staff in our news station is being let go. Once the system is implemented and running smoothly then this system is going to be implemented nationwide (effectively eliminating tens of thousands of jobs.) There are going to be 0 new jobs built off of this AI platform.
There are people I work with in their 50’s, single, no college education, no family, and no other place to land a job once this kicks in. I have no idea what’s going to happen to them. This is it guys. This is what our future with AI looks like. This isn’t creating any new jobs this is knocking out entire industry level jobs without replacing them.
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If you go to the Q.Ai site it lists 3 founders - all from Pissreal 
The tv channels are gonna get a shock when everyone tunes out because they do not want to watch the AI slop.
They think they can do this, but people do NOT like AI slop at all. People don’t find it valuable and don’t feel like their time is being well spent by watching something that someone else couldn’t be bothered to make.
There is a very real calculation of value humans do internally and its basically “this thing is worth the labour someone put into it” and since there is no labour put into producing AI slop the vast majority of people value AI slop as fucking worthless.
We grew up in a media landscape before the generative AI era so we value authenticity in our art. But future generations born into this world? They will know nothing but AI slop and it will be produced at unimaginable scale that will engulf everything humanity has ever produced. There is no coming back from this.
I see everyone keep repeating this, but no, some will eat it up. And we just have to hope that group isn’t big enough for it to matter, though seeing how many people on IG like clearly AI-generated bullshit in addition to AI music being semi-popular online, I have zero hope
If this were true ai books wouldn’t be a huge miss that are achieving absolutely nothing, and ai games, and ai video, and so on.
The people that like this stuff are the people engaging with making it. Everyone else is saying “oh, ai” and moving on swiftly.
Freak instances of high quality content get some popularity for being unusually good, the reason they occur is because the rest is viewed as being notoriously shit. Those good ones have value because they are novel, they will not always be novel, when they are no longer novel then their value or interesting-ness falls off a cliff.
Yep, as someone in the
comments mentioned, the production company got sold by an AI slop snake oil salesman. Nobody is gonna want to watch that shit.
In the world of the “multi screen experience”, people just want background noise that they can look up and smirk at once in a while.
On the other hand, I like watching cs2 highlights when I can’t catch the game, but there are uploaders who automate the editing (“just show 1-second before and after each death from shooter’s pov”) and very quickly I can tell that it wasn’t edited by a person because there is no flow or narrative of the pace of the match. Just “kill 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, round end, next round, kill 1” etc.
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