What do you do for work/profession?

[MacJenkins]

Commerical Electrician. Don't love it but pays the bills. Spend 80-100 days hunting. Some years more like last year was about 120 days. Generally work about 1100-1200 hours a year.

 

[Hunterscamera]

and Book Publisher

That's cool, fiction or non fiction. Be interested to know how much publishers are worried about AI rn

 

[ODB]

That's cool, fiction or non fiction. Be interested to know how much publishers are worried about AI rn

Both. I can’t speak for others but I think there are the same risks as in music content-wise. I won’t work with anyone who uses it for their content and it’s a part of my contract. I think there is this idea that people will sit back and have AI write a bunch of compelling novels but, but at the end of they day, someone has to print them and those people who front the $$ won’t have much of an appetite for crud. There is always the idea that AI will be so good eventually that no one will know the difference, but you are going to have a hard time selling a book for $20 when the consumer knows the algorithm wrote it. Some say people won’t care as long as it’s good, I say readers will.

One area that IS a concern is audiobooks and robot readers. Amazon right now gives some publishers the opportunity to have their ebook turned into an audiobook using sampled voices, etc. I’ve listened to a few samples and can’t do it. I’ve been invited to the beta program to do it but have refused. There is a lot more to reading a book than reading a book, if you get my drift. Like when I told my reader once, “you read this character too young, he is 10 years older,” and he went back and nailed it - and this with an Indian accent - I don’t know how frustrated I would be to try to get a computer to understand that kind of nuance, or moving between several male and female characters in a scene.

 

[FGB]

I’m and CPA and work in M&A advisory. Can’t say I “love” it but do enjoy it from a learning and problem solving perspective. Being remote and well compensated make it very worth it.

All the work is project based so no issues taking 2 weeks off for DIY trips once active are deals wrapped up. Hunt near every weekend of the fall for whitetail + 2 weeks for a western trip each year. Likely gonna extend that to 3 weeks this year while I work remote and glass in the evenings for the week prior to my hunt.

 

[Hunterscamera]

Both. I can’t speak for others but I think there are the same risks as in music content-wise. I won’t work with anyone who uses it for their content and it’s a part of my contract. I think there is this idea that people will sit back and have AI write a bunch of compelling novels but, but at the end of they day, someone has to print them and those people who front the $$ won’t have much of an appetite for crud. There is always the idea that AI will be so good eventually that no one will know the difference, but you are going to have a hard time selling a book for $20 when the consumer knows the algorithm wrote it. Some say people won’t care as long as it’s good, I say readers will.

One area that IS a concern is audiobooks and robot readers. Amazon right now gives some publishers the opportunity to have their ebook turned into an audiobook using sampled voices, etc. I’ve listened to a few samples and can’t do it. I’ve been invited to the beta program to do it but have refused. There is a lot more to reading a book than reading a book, if you get my drift. Like when I told my reader once, “you read this character too young, he is 10 years older,” and he went back and nailed it - and this with an Indian accent - I don’t know how frustrated I would be to try to get a computer to understand that kind of nuance, or moving between several male and female characters in a scene.

That's good to know. I'm glad publishers are staying strong against it, seems like a bunch of industries are steaming ahead with AI. I'm more then happy to pay $20 for guaranteed human made art. Didn't think I'd have to write that sentence but here we are I guess.

 

[Burnsie]

Physical Plant Director for a small college. It's been a good job for raising a family (great medical) - no complaints. Grinding out the last 3 years to retirement - seems like a long time, but it will go quick.