Today I read an article (the first one of many I presume) about how a freelance copywriter/blogger went viral - not because of a post that she wrote for the company she works for, but because she shared a post on social media about losing her job to AI.
It's been talked about many times here and I was very happy to see the backlash and how Hive has taken a stand against people using AI generated content to take money from the reward pool from no effort of their own.
Recently a post here also shared which jobs will be replaced with AI and it's a vast majority of them. The issue that I have is that so many people who are entrepreneurs, who run their own small businesses are probably going to be the hardest hit and if Covid19 taught us anything, no jobs are safe, no matter how special we might think we are or how unique, it seems we are all replaceable and in an economic recession, job cuts are going to rise swiftly all across the world.
How does anyone combat this though when it's being pushed from way up high? The higher the pressure on corporations due to inflation, they are going to look at ways to spread the same work load across a smaller number of staff. People that don't get fired or retrenched are going to have to cover more work in the same number of hours and this is going to take it's toll. Eventually some of these people will buckle under that pressure and look for work elsewhere to alleviate that.
Something I've noticed in the job market though is that no jobs are specialised anymore. If you work in an office environment in administration, you cover multiple tasks and jobs that a decade ago would be undertaken by three (or more) different people are now being done by one.
The scariest thing for me is that these companies that are replacing people with ChatGPT are not thinking about the cons. These AI chat bots have been found to provide inaccurate information with incorrect sources. So who is going to be doing quality control on this? It makes no sense to fire a copywriter who would have double checked all of this only to still keep someone retained to do that in any case...the more likely answer is that there will be no quality control as a cost saving exercise.
I don't see this working out well for that company in the long term as I am almost certain that they are eventually going to start finding huge issues with this.
AI chat bots are extremely one dimensional. Their writing is pretty bland and there is no real personality or flair. This can be expected as you can't really expect a machine to know how to writing with any real passion, conviction or emotion as these are all human characteristics.
Unfortunately this is going to lead to a rather dull world. Is there going to be a turning point? I'm not going to hold my breath.
𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒅𝒍𝒚 𝑨𝑰 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆. 𝑨𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒘𝒏.
