Graphic designers and artists could lose their jobs if companies replace them with Adobe’s new Firefly generative AI tools.
That’s the fear of Adobe’s own employees, according to insider.com.
It not only reports that Adobe staff worry their AI technology means unemployment for other artists and designers.
Staff also fear that its AI could “cannibalize” Adobe’s own business, the report says. They worry the technology could take jobs from within Adobe itself.
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They says a billboard and advertising business already has reduced staffing after integrating Adobe Firefly into Photoshop.
According to Insider, some Adobe staff are experiencing an “existentialist crisis” due to this risk.
This is not the first time staff within an organisation developing AI have warned of its dangerous implications.
In March Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, warned that the technology came with dangers and needed society’s attention and regulation. “I’m particularly worried that these models could be used for large-scale disinformation … now that they’re getting better at writing computer code, [the technology] could be used for offensive cyber-attacks.”
OpenAI staff were among signatories to a letter warning about a risk of extinction that AI posed. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
Another letter with more than 33,000 signatures calls for a pause in AI research. “We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4,” the letter says.
Signatories included computer science professors, SpaceX founder Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Getty Images CEO Craig Peters and Rachel Bronson, president, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
