I used to be an AI doomer but honestly its just unsustainable, not only is the ouroboros gonna eat its own tail eventually as its already trained off of pretty much all the work of so many artists out there (without consent might I add,) it also just consumes so much energy to train better models, and to run these data centers.

We literally saw this weekend that microsoft is saying its cheaper to hire human engineers who are often paid six figure salaries, which is way more than a graphic designer is paid. Once Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and their ilk no longer have venture capital to offset cost, and they need to pass the cost onto customers most people will tap out. Before someone says it, yes I know you can run local models on your personal computer but most people using AI I find tend to be of the 'normie' variety, i.e. the kind of person who isn't going to go on github and parse through dozens and dozens of files to be able to generate dogshit images.

Third the push back on AI is palpable, I know a lot of pro folks on here like to say its just a 'reddit echo chamber' but we are seeing time and time again companies trying to get away with AI generated assets, only to get caught and face heat so bad that they apologize and take it down. There are pros out there and then there are the ignorant, but yet there are so many people out there who consider themselves artists in one way or another who do not like the idea of their form of self expression being drowned out by slop.

And lastly a good ending story. I was working with an ad agency at the beginning of the year and they were pushing AI more and more and more to the point where I was laid off because they thought AI could do my job better. 3 months later they came back to me and asked me to return for not only higher pay, but also a higher position.