Comment on Is the gripe against AI the same as CGI when first being used?
kboos1@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Sort of but AI much much worse. CGI only affected a small group of people at first and was really just a shifting/retraining of the workforce, but still required a lot of skill, knowledge, and man power to create. AI is more low skill, low effort, easy entry, and intended to replace the workforce.
I don’t think it’s intended to replace the workplace (whatever the AI bros say), more like the self checkout, edges handled by humans so bigger efficiency (per worker).
What riles me up isn’t that but that we generate so much wealth but still can’t share even enough so that people can be safe and fed.
Vibe coding was/is intended to replace trained and experienced coders by allowing people that don’t have a clue what they are doing to give AI instructions to create something and hope for the best but have no clue how it actually works. It will probably work out eventually, but the goal is something that took a team of skilled workers can now be done by a single high school drop out working minimum wage.
That’s the goal yeah, but it only works on an app or a website or something that doesn’t need a team of skilled software engineers.
People underestimate the difference between an app that downloads some data to display and say a control system in the industry, medical software, etc. and they are not even the most complex stuff at all.
If you’re a web dev, you will be affected wildly but they still search for COBOL developers.
Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 3 days ago
This is really it. In some ways early CGI was actually more intensive than traditional setpiece, costume, and effects-making in that it had a very high technical skill floor. Not denigrating the skills of actual physical artists here, but you had to not just have an artistic sense, but be able to navigate (in some cases, program in the first place!) the tools behind it.