Someone in media claiming their entire staff waw wiped out by an AI company called 
Q.Ai
For context I work production in local news. Recently there’s been developments in AI driven systems that can do 100% of the production side of things which is, direct, audio operate, and graphic operate -all of those jobs are all now gone in one swoop. This has apparently been developed by the company Q ai.
For the last decade I’ve worked in local news and have garnered skills I thought I would be able to take with me until my retirement, now at almost 30 years old, all of those job opportunities for me are gone in an instant. The only person that’s keeping their job is my manager, who will overlook the system and do maintenance if needed. That’s 20 jobs lost and 0 gained for our station.
We were informed we are going to be the first station to implement this under our company. This means that as of now our entire production staff in our news station is being let go. Once the system is implemented and running smoothly then this system is going to be implemented nationwide (effectively eliminating tens of thousands of jobs.) There are going to be 0 new jobs built off of this AI platform.
There are people I work with in their 50’s, single, no college education, no family, and no other place to land a job once this kicks in. I have no idea what’s going to happen to them. This is it guys. This is what our future with AI looks like. This isn’t creating any new jobs this is knocking out entire industry level jobs without replacing them.
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If you go to the Q.Ai site it lists 3 founders - all from Pissreal 
I think if we keep the conversations about art centered on the humanity within, we can prevent this normalization. We need to break away from brands and IPs and instead look at the artists involved. The writers, character designers, animators, etc. Because that’s what people come for even if they don’t know the creators by name.
I want to see the Princess Mononoke created by the man who grew up in post WW2 Japan. Not the one churned out by an ai prompted by someone who just liked seeing girls riding wolves.
I’m trying to be optimistic, but I think if we’re drawn to human connection, we’ll continue to do so.