For Whom the AI Bell Tolls:
Book Cover Illustrators
That screaming you hear is from the servers of AI grinding the bones of book cover illustrators. Just to add more salt to this wound, this article’s outline was generated by Perplexity AI. But I completely ignored its outline, which could be biased, even just a little.
The words you’re reading are mine, with a small dash of Hunter S. Thompson to give it them some bite. Just because the AI gave me an outline doesn’t mean I need to stay within its lines. I’m still the human in the loop. For now, anyway. By the way, the illustration for this article was also generated by Perplexity. You can stone me later. For now, just keep reading.
AI is coming for your job, man! That’s the bottom line, end of your story. Music, graphics, real humans writing real articles instead of robo-ridden slush, all of that’s fading away like a Picasso left out in the sun. Soon enough we’ll all be like Charlie Chaplain caught up in the gears of that monstrous machine, or one of the worker-drones in Metropolis, slaving away at the gears of that monstrous machine while whatever it produces, without any human skin in the game, nor human experience, nor human sweat, nor human experience’s highs and lows, sucks the electricity out of us non-cloud city dwellers to deliver, like a Dasher pumped by a large tip, what we used to pay skilled people for. …
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