You don't have to be driving impaired to have a strong desire to avoid the checkpoints. I avoid them because they're intrusive, oppressive, and upsetting.
> Recently, there was an AI artist who was signed to a record label.
It's hard to see this as genAI creating jobs, it's just genAI doing a job that would otherwise have been done by a person. Even if it's not taking a job that would have been done by a person, no job was created.
What he's describing are fairly typical symptoms of depression, including the freezing. Not rare at all. I agree that he should seek some real assistance with it, but he's not at all some kind of outlier.
Mine is only an anecdote. I've been in this business for decades and I've never seen or even heard of anything like this. Even so, I think we agree a therapist would be really good for him to get over this patch.
I learn new technical skills outside of work hours. Personally, I've found that it's pretty hard to learn new skills while at the same time under the pressure to deliver something.
But why? It's easy to tell when you need to clean your glasses without special equipment. Unless I'm missing something, there doesn't seem to be a problem to be solved here.
What it means is that nothing being reported by journalists who retain their "hard passes" can be trusted, any more than DoD press releases can be trusted.
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