The degree to which bots will upend the work landscape and potentially make defunct whole categories of white and blue collar jobs is an open question. In all the talk, few have thought bots would pose a challenge to models. Not exactly bots, but digital avatars are starting to replace models.
As our lives drift evermore to being web based, digital glamour creations are becoming the models used to launch fashion commerce. Here is a good article about the topic: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/08/08/soon-most-beautiful-people-world-may-no-longer-be-human/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0783337699ad
Interestingly, craft is still very much a part of this phenomenon. To make the avatars compelling, attention to detail and real artistry is necessary. For this reason, their creation involves hundreds of hours of work, and the cost runs into the many thousands.
