Reading how Generative A.I. is affecting artists, creators, workers, designers, and other professions is a varied story. Some are okay while others just can't believe the sudden shift in their industry. I pondered on what would happen to these individuals and the skills they've spent years learning, honing, and mastering.
I looked up other situations of technology making a process redundant or unnecessary until it became almost forgotten or unknown to the newer generation working in that industry. There were numerous examples with some art styles, crafting skills, creative processes being almost completely forgotten until a guide or manuscript was found or created by previous profession workers detailing what was being left behind in the creation process.
Fencing has several techniques that are well known only because the masters of those techniques created intricate guide books on what the fencing style was and how each and every maneuver should be preformed with exact movements and directions.
There are so many styles, processes, techniques, and ways to produce an object that were commonly known about but not documented and have been forgotten as time passed on. I think we take for granted the amount of knowledge we know versus what is documented on paper. It is important to catalogue all of that for a generation that maybe won't have access to individuals that know the procedure.
An individual creating a guide on THEIR process, how and why they did it that way, might make them the new 'master' of that skill or profession as time passes and technology renders many of the processes 'obsolete'. Just because it's no longer required doesn't mean it wasn't an important part of the process before technology.
So to any professional with a skillset that might be seeing a 'sunset', I implore them to create a guide or booklet on their craft, the processes, and to store it for future generations. It's important and could revitalize the profession as a whole.
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