If things slow down a bit then speed up again in a few years once economics improve or whatever, does that really make any difference in the long run? What's the long term solution here?
We're not even talking about decades here, probably.
Part of me hopes we have hit a kind of wall where we get what we have now, maybe with some more polished UI, but it doesn't continue the exponential improvement path it's on. If it all slowed down, people would have plenty of time to readjust. Rather than just instantly deleting peoples careers.
Human artists can quite easily beat the current tech, but there is no real indication that the current stuff is the best we can juice out of the current methods. Which is the depressing part. Why even bother to learn anything when AI will obsolete your effort before you finish.
We're not even talking about decades here, probably.