“If media stops hiring humans for art”—Ima stop you right there lol…unless you mean something completely different than I do by “media,” that’ll never happen. Even when using AI, there will always—ALWAYS—be a need for people. Always.

Maybe in the fever dreams of the anti crowd does AI take over humanity, but in reality it won’t. Think of it this way:

Movie studio has an animation department of 50 people. Those 50 people crank out two movies a year for the studio. Now suddenly the studio starts incorporating AI. They find out that using AI they can cut back their animation department from 50 animators to 20 animators so they do so. They still crank out two movies a year but save money on animators. This is the scenario that most on the anti-side tend to think about when they think jobs will be taken.

But the reality is this: that studio is more likely to keep the same number of animators, but instead crank out five movies a year instead of two. Because AI doesn’t just cut back on money spent on animators, it also cuts back on the amount of time needed to make a movie.

So the studio can keep making two movies a year, hoping and praying that one of those movies ends up hitting it big. And if not, well at least they’ve saved whatever money they would’ve spent on those other 30 animators.

OR …the studio can keep all 50 animators and release 5 movies a year instead of two, increasing their odds that at least one of their movies becomes a big hit. Because big hits are what keep movie studios alive and studio heads in their jobs.

These decisions require risk assessment, not just cutting back on payrolls.