What happens to kids if AI takes entry level jobs? What you advising them?

AI firm Anthropic agrees to pay authors $1.5bn to settle piracy lawsuit

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y4jpg922qo

An article covering lawsuits, from the US Authors' Guild.
https://authorsguild.org/news/ai-class-action-lawsuits/

What does this mean @FuckRealityBringMeABook and how do you know?

Several of my books have been scraped for AI so far. They are in the Anthropic system. No-one asked me, informed me or paid me.

I'll take your opinion on the impact of AI on the creative industries seriously when you can spell copyright

No, this is hyperbole. It’s the same. Fast cheap soundtracks or columns can be created by AI. Still require people to validate, assure tone, imagery etc is what was intended.

AI can’t perform on stage. can’t play a guitar. Can only originate using versions of what it already knows.

commodity tasks get automated - yes. But not the creators, artists, writers.

why? Because people want the real thing. AI simplifies some of the tasks. Where it is used can benefit the creator and producer in the pace they can create new things.

And copywrite still exists. LLMs are not a legal entity and cannot own copywrite. Where it uses someone’s prior content to create something new, the copywrite owner will be paid.

Tell that to the musicians, artists, writers etc who used to enjoy the jobs they've lost

I use AI sometimes to try and help me do things (finance). It’s often abysmal, can’t deal with data, gets calculations wrong, incorrectly interprets trends etc. It can do some good things but at the moment it will not be replacing people where thought is needed.

It will need to evolve significantly, which will obviously happen, but it will vary by its impact on different types of job.

Am I the only person who thinks that recreating dead people via AI avatars is just bloody disgusting? Let the dead rest in peace ffs.

Not at all - AI does the commodity work, humans do the critical thinking and creative direction.

@ZoeCM Agree. I think in the same way as we have moved from scheduled programs to streaming at your convenience, AI will turn films into highly customisable experiences, i.e. viewers can choose their leading actors or even have a 'glammed up' version of themselves or any kind of fantasy avatar starring in any program they fancy that they can prompt AI to generate for them.

The creative industry is already using AI extensively. They probably have far fewer reservations about using it than other industries, because at least if it hallucinates the results won't be as catastrophic as they will be in law or medicine. There's already an AI-generated singer, Eddie Dalton, who's entered the iTunes charts even though he doesn't exist. There's an upcoming film, As Deep as the Grave, which will feature an AI-generated version of Val Kilmer, even though he's dead. In a few years' time, we could be getting "new" music from Elvis and Amy Winehouse, and new films "starring" Marilyn Monroe.

So robots do the fun, intellectually stimulating stuff and a handful of humans are paid peanuts to babysit and clean up their slop. Sounds great

Middle of the century, it suggests. I'll have lived most of my life by then but as it says in the article, the value "they" place on future lives seems to be nothing. Keep everyone busy worrying about smaller things and planet will be destroyed.

On the up side - drastic climate change will likely "stop the boats" <joking>

Thanks for the link,
'The poor and middle pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the very rich pay lawyers – and the ultra-rich pay politicians. It’s not an original remark, but it bears repeating until everyone has heard it. The more money billionaires accumulate, the greater their control of the political system – which means they pay less tax, which means they accumulate more, which means their control intensifies.
They reshape the world to suit their demands. One of the symptoms of the pathology known as “billionaire brain” is an inability to see beyond their own short-term gain. They would sack the planet for a few more stones on the pointless mountain of wealth.'
V interesting & V alarming!

AI isn’t going to take all the jobs.

AI will replace tasks within roles and require human interaction to assure the AI outputs are valid and accurate. Regulated. Ethical and controlled.

new jobs will be created to support this, and junior positions will be sustained. Using the tech example, You can’t validate Java code written by an AI assistant if you didn’t learn the Java programming language in the first place.

granted the commodity lower skilled work is at higher, quicker risk - contact centre work for example, but not every job is be replaced by AI and new skills need to be learned

its the industrial revolution of our time - advise your kids to ensure the courses they are studying include modules of AI tooling and learning for the jobs they are thinking about.

What I hope is that AI can help us figure out solutions to the climate crisis. Anyone who hasn't yet read the George Monbiot column posted in this thread should do so.

DH works in AI. He is sort of optimistic about the future because he is a perennial optimist. But he doesn't see it working without UBI.

The job I do now didn’t exist when I was 6. You’ve got 12 years before your child needs to be ‘guided’.

My place has tonnes of roles going in AI related jobs. Not everyone’s cut out for blue collar - let’s not totally de-intellectualise our society with these worries. AI is a tool we’re figuring out how to use. Cost cutting is now, intelligent use of the tool is up next.

I grew up with one foot in the communist East. There academic jobs were less paid than manual work. Going to university, learning, education, was dangerous and a factory worker earned more than a teacher, university professor or doctor. Yet many pople still chose education as a way to define and keep their humanity. I think especially in a world of AI, learning and thinking becomes ever more important, and I try to help my children get the best possible education. But I don't expect that it will translate into earnings. Proper academic subjects (like classics, pure maths, astrophysics, literature, philopsphy, history, music, fine art etc) have never been about earning potential, even in the West. The paying jobs of the future will likely be service roles to a few very rich tech bros. It'll be like before the indudtrial revolution, when less than 2% of the population were landowners, and 98% of the population just existed to serve their lifestyle. We'll go back full circle to the dark ages, with the major tech bros owning everything and passing it on to their own children, and everybody else making a very poor living serving a few super billionaires.

Jeez. This thread is very depressing. I rarely read an entire thread but I did this.

Just this week I had a LinkedIn connection request. It was basically some guy in Germany who has developed AI to do my Autocad role. We do data collection surveying too but already drones are doing the task of a two people in the field. Won't be long I suspect till drone manufacturers have the market cornered where their drones can just go from a depot to where requested with no man input on the ground and then convert the data into Autocad with no drafting roles. Where to turn? I also have a wayleave surveying background but reading up AI is also predicted to swallow that sector up with drones and admin automation.

As for my 13 year old son. He's recently said he wants follow his grandfather into the thatching trade. I like to think that role would stand more of a chance of job availability than my role but as others have said the whole economy relies on drip down money.

With AI and digital currency emerging together. It's going to be very interesting to see how it all pans out.

I was a software developer for years and now work in a senior leadership role in fintech, I’ve seen lots of ‘disruptive’ tech come and go over the years but generative AI is the real deal. It’s is quite simply amazing, we can’t keep up with how to adopt it. There will be no hiding from the impact of it unfortunately, I’m really worried for what the impact will be and I’m worried for my children’s future.

Ha ha. Brilliant.

I’d love a self sufficient (or partially so) homestead like the internetting Americans @Girasoli but this is overpopulated Britain where working classes cannot even afford the ex council houses or railway cottages that were built for us any more, or follow the dig for victory ideals, let alone follow the old smallholding dream.

George Monbiot in the Guardian pretty much agrees with you (came up in relation to climate change, but it’s actually about the control billionaires have over the billions on the planet).
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/23/catastrophic-climate-event-scientists-atlantic-system-collapse-billionaire-existential-crisis

Ask me
'What jobs will be least affected by AI' ?

It may give you some ideas.