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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Thanks to @[email protected] for finding the original author:

https://www.instagram.com/linhadotrem/

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

I assume you, teaching as the profession that we have today is not at all safe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Cooking is something that requires advanced robotics or some kind of heavily modular factory-like automated meal production line, not AI. Though AI certainly could assist in the development of such.

Drivers are being actively replaced right before our eyes.

A lot of Lawyer work is already being heavily automated, even without AI. Outside of that its "technically" replaceable with AI but on a literal legal level not likely currently possible. I think automating some aspects of being a lawyer might be beneficial but certain elements would be down right dystopian if fully automated.

Doctor work being automated is also already being done, but this is arguably a very good thing, as it maybe holds the key to a lot of medical breakthroughs and might unlock the potential to sort all that personal medical data people collect ever since that became a thing. And largely might help significantly reduce the cost of highly effective personal healthcare, given sufficient time.

Teacher work probably could be partially automated but getting kids to pay attention to a lesson, discipline, safety, etc would likely require a human to be around if only for liability.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

modular factory-like automated meal production line, not AI.

Define AI... LLMs are just a part of that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, Artificial Intelligence is pretty broad category of technologies, even so, robotics and automation is not AI. You could pair a robot or an automated factory with an AI of some kind, or use an AI to design them, and they're related to each other in that they involve computer technology. Still, not the same thing.

A robotic arm in an car factory is a robot, but it doesn't have AI in it, they're usually given a set of commands to repeat.

A rube goldberg machine is technically automated once initialized. Its not AI.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

Credit to the original artist.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Ironic. The translator and artist were the first ones to be killed, and now we got this bastardized AI "translation" instead that's actually an entirely different image, but worse.

This is why so many were confused about "personal," I believe it's a popular borrowed term in Brazil that simply means personal trainer.

Not personnel, not HR, not personal assistant, nor an AI hallucination, even as some confidently claimed them, all because the original work was discarded for a shitty alternative, much like workers themselves.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 13 hours ago

Seems the translated variant misses a big point of the original artist too, notice how the gun slowly comes into view? It's trying to make a point that the replacement isn't quite organic, but rather forced on us. Probably would have been better to just translate the text in place and include the rightful credit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Thank you for finding it. I will leave his IG here and in description, since my original post was just a copy, unfortunately.

https://www.instagram.com/linhadotrem/

[–] [email protected] 28 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This... Almost looks like the op of this post used AI to translate and change the art style of this comic.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Replaced by AI: ~~traductor~~

Also modified the art style to make it less violent and subversive, so cross "artist" of that list as well.

With the original, we clearly understand that it should all have been filled with humans, but there was a progression in the center line where AI (killed and) replaced professions that were always thought to be irreplaceable by AI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Artist is the second the robot killed

[–] [email protected] 11 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Meanwhile my (college btw) teacher suggests us to use ChatGPT if we need help. Bro wants to replace himself.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 16 hours ago

Any personals here?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 19 hours ago (7 children)

AI hasn't replaced Translators and the attempt to use them to replace artists and journalists isn't going as well as you would assume. AI isn't replacing any skilled position. Anyone who told you it will, is selling you something or dreadfully ignorant on the topic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I find most of the AI art generators are just allowing people who aren't artistic to make their own stuff which they wouldn't have paid someone for anyways if AI wasn't there, they would have just gone without, so it's not really a lose to artists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

There's a small, relatively low value market of commissioned online art that has been and will continue to be impacted. People who may have paid $50-60 for a (furry) OC will start going to AI image gens as the process becomes more refined and allows them to add detail to the end result without much effort.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

I saw a video of a guy that worked in graphic design and he got replaced by an AI logo maker.

FWIW after about 5 minutes he'd already basically disclosed how useless he already was and how his 40 hour week could have been replaced by someone spending 30 minutes on a $12 per month logo making website.

I can assure you though he felt that he was a "skilled worker". All skills can 'feel' useful but if they aren't efficient who cares? Climbing up walls is a cool skill, ladders make it not very marketable though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

I have done professional translation, as a side gig. The usual workflow involves a first run through machine translation (Deepl is my favorite), then opening the machine translation in a translation program (I use CafeTran), which is used to make the second pass, by the human translator. This program doesn't translate (they can use one of the main translation engines) but provides a bunch of tools to make the translation refining process easier.

Pure machine translation is a hack. AI can't grasp nuances, contexts, etc... You will often see many words that may have several meanings, used incorrectly, for example.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Correct. But it has made Translators more productive so we need fewer of them. But the productivity gains will create other jobs and so on. So it's not as clear cut as people think. What will likely happen is that some jobs will vanish (anyone here remember elevator operators?) while some jobs will change and in other cases new professions will be created.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Having worked for a software company that needed translation services, I can confirm that translation software is indeed very necessary.

People would notice when the word "date" is interpreted as "date on a calendar" in one file and "romantic event" in another, but AI sure doesn't.

Even Google's apps have broken Dutch translations by reusing existing strings for different contexts that don't mean the same elsewhere. "Search" gets translated to different words depending on if it's used a noun or a verb, for fucks sake!

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