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The big problem with this transition isn’t the technology itself, but the economic short-sightedness of executives. When the industry replaces programmers, translators, voice actors, musicians, and artists with language models, it isn’t “optimizing processes”—it’s cannibalizing its own consumer base. Artificial intelligence doesn’t create anything from scratch; it merely reorganizes, in a predictive manner, the work that humans have already done and shared on the internet. Calling this “cost reduction” is a dangerous euphemism designed to mask institutionalized plagiarism and the devaluation of workers. The most ironic and frightening paradox of this mass automation is this: if we continue to take away people’s jobs and wages in the name of immediate profit for large corporations, who will have the money to buy the video games that AI generates? Without humans in development, we lose the soul of creativity; without humans in employment, the industry itself loses its market.