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Five Fears.
Not hypothetical. Real shit happening right now. Drag them by personal urgency. The order tells you where your work has to begin.
Drag to rank by personal urgency. Most people refuse to. They want all five to be equal so they can avoid sequencing. Sequence anyway. The order tells you where your work has to begin.
01 Stolen work without consent
Training data equals humanity's creative output, scraped without permission. Your photos. Your writing. Your scenes. No compensation. No attribution.
From the talk · “Roughly 1,800 of my Creative Commons photos sit in a major training corpus. Nobody asked.”
02 Race to the bottom
“Good enough” AI outputs devalue human craft. Clients are saying it out loud: “Can’t you just use AI for this?”
From the talk · “Why pay $5,000 for a designer when Midjourney costs $20 a month?”
03 Junior pipeline collapse
Entry-level jobs are vanishing. The roles that trained the next generation are disappearing. How do people become directors if they can’t be assistants first?
From the talk · “I teach AI for a living. I don’t have the junior pipeline problem solved. Nobody does.”
04 Cognitive dependency
Use a calculator daily, mental math degrades. Use GPS constantly, spatial memory weakens. Use AI for everything — does critical thinking diminish?
From the talk · “We’re all participants in an experiment we didn’t sign up for.”
05 Commodification of expertise
If anyone can generate anything, why do they need you? Expertise devalued. Craft dismissed. The fear underneath all the others: becoming obsolete.
From the talk · “Stock photography collapsed. Junior copywriting is being automated. The pattern is visible.”