Loading ...which is all about fakery is now upsetting folk because it is now faking the actors and actresses. Even though it has been the case since the first voiceover 98 years ago with Steamboat Willie. From cartoons, to single shot animation, voiceovers, multiple exposures, color tintings, through to SFX and today’s CGI, it’s been a steady journey of change and replacement. From once a week at the cinema to everything on demand anywhere anytime it’s been a journey of the impossible being continually delivered. AI generated characters (think of Gollum as maybe the first) are just another piece.
I saw the piece on the lawyers in NYC. Nearly died laughing. Sooner the better – actually, it’s too late. SLMs are already delivering for lawyers and NYC would become the laughing stock of the world (imagine the lawsuits!!) if they tried to go it alone. But your 21:34 article is based on a false premise, that these white colloar workers actually contribute anything. They don’t. They are leeches on the system, by and large mandated by governments to ‘protect’ investors, whose functions are now being eliminated in the same fashion as lower class white collar workers were eliminated in far greater numbers in the seventies, eighties and nineties. I used to work for a retailer, where we processed 44,000 invoices a week. Manually entered into the IBM 38. Staff used to put individual price labels on every tin and packet in the shops, which were then eyeballed and punched in to the cash register. Now an invoice never becomes paper, prices are all barcoded, we are our own check-out chicks and millions of jobs worldwide are gone. The accountants’ and lawyers’ numbers will be insignicant by comparison.