I don't think the comparison with the industrial revolution is apt. The work that was replaced by automation back then was all repetitive, algorithmic work. It's not as though before the fully automated loom was invented, that every new cloth that needed to be weaved was a new intellectual challenge. It required skill that took effort to obtain, but once you had it, it was mostly going through the motions. The problem with it was the fact that it was done in a way that it exclusively enriched and empowered the factory owners at the expense of the workers, not the automation itself.

AI is the opposite: it's too unreliable, too inefficient, and you have too little control over it to be useful for high-volume, repetitive work, so it's mostly used for bespoke work. It does a piss-poor job at that too, but if you lower your standards far enough, you can get away with a lot less thinking and decision-making than you would have to do otherwise. And that's pretty much what these companies are trying to get us to do, lower our standards.