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DALLE2 is a tool for artists and illustrators to help them be more imaginative, but it can also be used to create a "full work." This might be a first sign of AI's influence on job markets. Although I am certain that AI will generate many new occupations and improve many existing professions by automating the tedious tasks, I feel it is vital to acknowledge that it will gradually render some jobs obsolete (like machine learning frequently does).

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Just to touch on the "automation of tedious tasks" because I think this is something we (humans) struggle with a lot. Look at the mill workers in the 19th and 20th centuries. They were displaced by machines to become, eventually, unskilled laborers. This is not just a mill example either. Tasks that require very little skill and repetitive, mind-numbing work will probably go away and be replaced by automated processes.

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