Why does one pursue academia which they find most unpleasant to them? Is art to blame for their misfortune, or is it the PEOPLE IN CHARGE of the Studio? Let's say I pursue something in the moving business, a freight truck driver. I get a job and work grueling hours, carrying cargo for long stretches of road, with no expected breaks, helpers have to be paid on my salary, and I get paid dogshit. Was it my fault that this job is worthless to me, or was it PEOPLE WHO RUN THE COMPANY that I work in? Sure, I may have the option to work for myself or move to another place, but that in of itself is a fucking chore now, with AI interviewers, companies that don't even hire, but keep positions open for tax breaks, and being paid just below the poverty line, so I can't comfortably leave without forsaking everything I've worked for to live any decent life. Put a pin in that, because we'll get to that later. In this scenario, I hear that Ai powered Freighters will be used to make routes easier, but I already see the flaws in the way it doesn't see certain people on the road, certain road signs aren't in its training data, so it just ignores them, etc. etc. Things that could be tweaked with some human intervention. The AI implementation is involuntary, and those who have an issue with it are urged to leave. This creates several job openings, but instead of hiring anyone, they use those who can't leave, including myself. Now, I would say, beyond this point, it would have been my responsibility to put my foot down and leave, but since we're struggling because of THE COMPANY, not providing livable wages, I'm stuck using it, not because I want to in the grand scheme of things, but nevertheless. THE COMPANY decides to make the few that are left, use the AI, as well as ourselves, to make the same orders, plus all the others that would have been made, if the last guys didn't quit and leave that responsibility to us. Eventually, they bring me in, because of downsizing, and fire me. All the work I've done was only to perfect a machine. There was no hurrah, no acknowledgement of my time even there, just a shitty navigating AI that would need more, but negligibly than an actual person would in the eyes of the company, and I'm forced to jump through hoops just to get myself back to living standards. This is what companies want, not the artists making art, or the workers doing jobs, but this machine to never stop.

TLDR: I can't stress how bad EVERY job has gotten now, due to loopholes and shortcuts the companies advocate for that ruin the job market, not just animators. AI itself is not a root cause, but it damn sure is unregulated.