RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116576274811692686
Hearing this from a lot of designers too.
Welcome to the club. This is every job in tech now besides CEO.
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@juter they're killing the pipeline from both ends. No juniors, because "AI can do that work" then removing any semblance of pleasure from senior work by saying "your job is to fix this slop"
Time to unionize?
@toychicken When you invent the plane, you invent the plane crash too. I don’t think unionising will make a blind bit of difference, sadly.
@juter well, the air travel industry is incredibly regulated and heavily unionised, precisely because people don't like dying in fireballs. Why the hell shouldn't we regulate and unionize to protect ourselves against having the value of work destroyed? None of this is inevitable.
@toychicken Nothing’s inevitable but some things are incredibly unlikely. We don’t live in a world of organised labour anymore, and even if you could get something going (and I’ve seriously considered organising a designer’s union) it wouldn’t have the teeth for a long time.
Regulation is a different matter and strong agree on this. Labour should be all over this, but in a constructive way that doesn’t pretend AI isn’t valuable but does protect people and their rights.
@juter more to the point, when the last industrial Revolution happened, the ruling elites assumed that they could employ children, use slave labour, that horrific workplace related deaths and injuries were acceptable losses, basic amenities and human rights were optional.
The only way to fight this was through the threat of withdrawal of Labour, and the only way to survive that is collective action.
