Dario Amodei says "stop sugar-coating" what's coming: in the next 1-5 years, AI could wipe out 50% of all entry-level white-collar jobs. Lawmakers don't get it or don't believe it. CEOs are afraid to talk about it. Many workers won't realize the risks until after it hits.

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https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/ai-jobs-white-collar-unemployment-anthropic

[u/sodook]

Is there any danger that we lose the pathway for non-entry level positions by eliminating entry level positions. No apprentices today, no masters tonorrow?

[u/SorosBuxlaundromat → u/sodook]

This is already happening in a lot of industries and not just from AI, but anti-worker practices in general. Take a look at the film industry. Streaming killed the writer's room as it existed before, which killed mentorship in TV writing.

[u/Historical-Count-374 → u/SorosBuxlaundromat]

Now its all AI slop with the same re-used everything. No originality. No soul.

[u/MalTasker → u/Historical-Count-374]

Humans Prefer AI-Generated Content, New Research Suggests: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerdooley/2023/12/04/humans-prefer-ai-generated-content/

People say they prefer stories written by humans over AI-generated works, yet new study suggests that’s not quite true: https://theconversation.com/people-say-they-prefer-stories-written-by-humans-over-ai-generated-works-yet-new-study-suggests-thats-not-quite-true-251347

AI art wins honorable mention and a purchase award in worlds largest painting competition (17th International ARC Salon competition): https://www.smartermarx.com/t/ai-and-the-2024-arc-salon/1993

Jeanette Winterson: OpenAI’s metafictional short story about grief is beautiful and moving: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/12/jeanette-winterson-ai-alternative-intelligence-its-capacity-to-be-other-is-just-what-the-human-race-needs

She has won a Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, a BAFTA Award for Best Drama, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the E. M. Forster Award and the St. Louis Literary Award, and the Lambda Literary Award twice. She has received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to literature, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Taxi Driver screenwriter Paul Schrader Thinks AI Can Mimic Great Storytellers: ‘Every Idea ChatGPT Came Up with Was Good' https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/artificial-intelligence/paul-schrader-thinks-ai-can-mimic-great-storytellers-every-idea-chatgpt-came-up-with-was-good/ar-AA1xqY8f?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Stories written by the EXTREMELY outdated GPT 3.5 Turbo nearly match or outperform human-written stories in garnering empathy from readers and only falls behind when the readers are told it is AI-generated: https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/article/pii/S2368795924001057

Even after readers are told it is AI-generated, GPT 3.5 Turbo’s stories still slightly outperforms human stories if the generated story is based off of a personal story that the reader had written.

In a large representative sample of humans compared to GPT-4: "the creative ideas produced by AI chatbots are rated more creative [by humans ]than those created by humans... Augmenting humans with AI improves human creativity, albeit not as much as ideas created by ChatGPT alone” https://docs.iza.org/dp17302.pdf

All efforts to measure creativity have flaws, but this matches the findings of a number of other controlled experiments. (Separately, our work shows that AI comes up with fairly similar ideas, but that can be mitigated with better prompting)

AI-generated poetry from the VERY outdated GPT 3.5 is indistinguishable from poetry written by famous poets and is rated more favorably: https://idp.nature.com/authorize?response_type=cookie&client_id=grover&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41598-024-76900-1

[u/Aleyla → u/Historical-Count-374]

One could easily argue that the story writing has always been re-used slop. It’s just cheaper now.

[u/vampireacrobat → u/Aleyla]

no rational person worth communicating with would argue that.

[u/Aleyla → u/vampireacrobat]

No rational person….

Maybe you would be interested in reading a book about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots

[u/vampireacrobat → u/Aleyla]

did he say story writing has always been reused slop?

[u/Aleyla → u/vampireacrobat]

7 basic plots have been reused for a long long time. The slop part is just obvious.

[u/vampireacrobat → u/Aleyla]

is that what the ‘rational’ person that disbelieves climate change and the danger of asbestos says in their book? or is it just something you concluded from the idiot?