AI isn’t replacing jobs. Managers and C-suite execs that understand neither the job nor AI itself are replacing jobs as a cost reduction measure. Which will be offset by the sudden need to re-hire those workers to fix what AI has broken.

It’s not that AI can replace them. It’s that LLMs can offer a hugely inferior version of what they do, and for a lot of people, that’s apparently fine.

Quite a few fields that previously had only the options of “good, quality work” and “not having it”, now offer the option of “substandard slop”.

And people like copywriters, translators, illustrators and other fields are rapidly finding out there wasn’t actually a huge demand for their good quality work, there was in fact a huge demand for “not nothing”, and that demand is being filled by the mediocre slop produced by LLMs now.

I disagree, mainly because there are a ton of jobs that are previously lost or made simpler due to automation already.