re: Amazon floods Audible with 40K AI recorded audiobooks

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Yeah and during these periods of change its often really bad for a lot of people for a long time until that adaptation

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Some time the adaptation never comes and it stays really bad for a lot of people. Look at the agricultural south. Much of the poverty is due to farm equipment replacing manual labor. Instead of farms employing dozens or even hundreds of people, an entire farm can be managed by just a few workers.

Same with industrial plants and manufacturing facilities. But these jobs were offset by new jobs in new industries, unfortunately not always in the same geographic area or filled by the same displaced employees.

AI will create unforeseen jobs and careers and expand existing careers. And, yes, many careers will cease to exist.

What the net result is, no one knows. I think it is wrong to assume it will be negative.