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    Adding on to the AI discourse above, i saw this article this morning:

    https://www.nytimes.com/interact…

    Quite an interesting read with the examples of very Gen X careers (Rock & Roll music journalist was the clearest). Weirdly it reminded me of everyones obsession with learning flash and code in the late 90s. It definitely struck me to read things like 'graphic design / photography' in the lead, but its the same story where successive generations have a different landscape to the previous, and the winners adapt.

    My wife used to work on music videos as a stylist in the mid 2000s and they had seemingly infinite money. 10 years later that industry as a fraction of what it was, and then another 10 later and its barely an industry. She is in a corpirate creative director role now, as the styling fell off very sharply after 2012

    I am constantly hearing older colleagues talk about how different it was back then when they had real money to do shoots, how they shot for a week and came back with amazing 10 stills but that's pretty anachronistic now, and the skill is how you adapt to working with what you have (tools and budget).

    I use AI to generate storyboards and style frames, but then i still also get an artist to draw up frames for me when its specific, so its a combination of bot. I feel glad to be able to support a traditional creative skill in some way.

    Someone once told me that 'AI won't replace you, but someone using it might'

    FWIW – that girl mentioned about sounds like a great business person, but ultimately selling something pretty disposable – and thats been around since the dawn of capitalism.

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    • Thank you.monospaced
    • My wife sent that to me too! New tools that will only get better each day. We either can adapt and fall under or ride the waves. My 2¢misterhow
    • The only ones whining about AI are the creatives it exposed as painfully average on their best day.utopian
    • true... tarantino is painfully average...neverscared
    • i see a great career in visual arts for trump.. he cant wrap his head around of an UI or brush and colors like bush... but he has the best words.. which makesneverscared
    • the nr.1 prompts..neverscared
    • “Everyone is an artist”
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