> ChatGPT significantly reduces that headcount from 5 juniors to 0, and 5 seniors to 2 or 3.
Citation needed. I haven't heard of any massive disruption in the commission art market since stable diffusion went public, and I don't think something less-impactful(a different way to search old stack overflow posts) is going to cause a massive disruption either.
Stack overflow still beats chatgpt in one area that it can never compete. Coming up with new solutions to new questions. If all we needed answered was the same questions, chatgpt would be sufficient since it's essentially a compressed version of our current knowledge. We don't really have a way to update it with "new knowledge" other than "train it again".
Art is a strange market, where people pay for more than the physical good being delivered. In some cases the objective value of the good being delivered is zero, or even negative after considering cost of "carry" (transport, storage, insurance) yet people pay for it.
I once spoke to an illustrator who said her work was definitely shrinking due to low cost human competition, so much so that she was leaving her profession. I can imagine this did in fact get worse.
Citation needed. I haven't heard of any massive disruption in the commission art market since stable diffusion went public, and I don't think something less-impactful(a different way to search old stack overflow posts) is going to cause a massive disruption either.
Stack overflow still beats chatgpt in one area that it can never compete. Coming up with new solutions to new questions. If all we needed answered was the same questions, chatgpt would be sufficient since it's essentially a compressed version of our current knowledge. We don't really have a way to update it with "new knowledge" other than "train it again".