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Uncannily Real AI Video and Fears That Programming Jobs Are Finished
Clips combining OpenAI's ChatGPT-6 Astra with ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 looked real enough that viewers 'couldn't tell,' while a thread declaring programmers—especially SES and freelancers—finished set off a jobs debate. The product releases are real, but the job-apocalypse claims are opinion, and reactions split between swapping AI 'tells,' fearing deepfake fraud, and forecasting a widening skills divide.