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by conception 108 days ago
As with any tech revolution, jobs don’t go away in total but the types of jobs do. There aren’t a lot of buggy whip manufacturers any more. Professionals photography has taken a sharp decline. Certain kinds of white collar work are a dead end now.
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I think progessional photography is so wide as a definition that makes no sense. Product photography could be somehow replaced with AI, maybe, but not journalist photography at all. In fact, journalism photography is more importnat than ever with AI now.
There is a lot less of having the picture-taking-man come to take a picture for $$
Not AI related, cell phone camera related. Crushed the sector.
> There aren’t a lot of buggy whip manufacturers any more

Nor horses...

Professional photography is still expected to grow over the next decade. It’s a competitive field but hasn’t actually shrunk much.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0254486700A

Doesn’t look like a stable, growing profession. And if you compare it to the 70s-00’s it got really rough around 2010 for obvious reasons.