If you're in a job that feels safe, you are not going to get exceptional, because if there is no danger there is almost certainly no leverage. - Paul Graham

The sweet spot for present-day AI seems to be projects that were constrained by the rate at which humans could produce text. That's why it works so well for programming. Basically programmers produced valuable text. But there are lots of other projects with this quality.

When a misbehaving child knows he's going to have to give in and do as he's told, the final stage of resistance is to do it really slowly.

It would be funny if as AI technology progressed, the legal situation tightened so that they were only trainable on images that were out of copyright, with the result that AI image generators produced very high quality traditional illustrations.