I lost my job to ChatGPT and was made obsolete. I was out of work for 3 months before taking a new job passing out samples at grocery stores.

I think this article misses the forest for the trees. The real "evil" here is capitalism, not AI. Capitalism encourages a race towards optimality with no care to what happens to workers. Just like the invention of the car put carriage makers out of business, so AI will be used to by company owners to cut costs if it serves them. It has been like this for over a 100 years, AI is just the latest technology to come along. I'm old enough to remember tons of these same doom and gloom articles about workers losing their jobs when the internet revolution hit in the late 90s. And probably many people did lose jobs, but many new jobs were created too.

It's comical how she uses the example of the printing press in her introduction. Are we really sad that we don't have to rely on monks copying books?

To be fair, passing out free samples at a grocery store is also trivial to automate.

For the past several years I worked as a full-time freelance copywriter; I'd work on webpages, branded blogs, online articles, social-media captions, and email-marketing campaigns.

Turns out when all you need is low-quality product, and a machine can do it cheaper, that's what people will choose. It's shitty that this affects people's livelihood in the short term, but this is what happens in capitalism.

THE POORLY WRITTEN SENTENCE with the typo right at at the punchline doesn’t help her case: “The contract was six months, because that's how long it'd take the AI would learn to write just like me but better, faster, and cheaper.” Yep. Better than that.

This is a complex issue!

On one hand, I’m not sure what kind of consistent and great results people are getting with GPT today. It’s an amazing tool but it is still lacking in a lot of ways.

Into the future? I think a lot of the jobs will change dramatically and entirely new ones will exist.

Adaptation is necessary in life, a disruptive technology has been created and we are just starting to understand it.

“ unless that writer could also provide email management and a funnel-building system, most likely because of the newfound popularity of ChatGPT.”

So they moved to a more complex managed marketing program. Email and funneling have nothing to do with chatgpt.

the horse whip & buggy industry still hasnt recovered

Meanwhile ChatGPT:

Why did the comedian lose their job to an AI? Because they just couldn't "crack" the code like the AI could! The AI had the audience "programmed" to laugh, while the comedian was left "debugging" their routine. Talk about a real "byte" to the ego!

If you're a comedian, and you lost your job to this, well, maybe it's for the better?

Unemployment rate is still at historic lows. If you are "forced" to take a grocery store job passing out samples then you have no marketable skills. Don't blame ChatGPT on this.

I thought my job would have been automated already, but turns our that AI doesn't make an acceptable scapegoat when things go wrong.

While I understand the concept of this article. Its really not a good example.

That's why I've seen so many dead-eyed sample passers taking the jobs of old ladies.

"I have no skills that couldn't easily be automated, please have sympathy for me"

I guess her "undeniable beauty isn't enough to carry her to fame and fortune. What a pitiful article.

“Write a short one paragraph summary about the evils of ChatGPT”

“ChatGPT, the impressive AI language model, presents potential evils that demand careful attention. These include the spread of misinformation, amplification of biases, privacy concerns, risk of malicious exploitation, and undermining critical thinking through overreliance. As we utilize this technology, it becomes crucial to acknowledge and address these challenges responsibly to ensure a more ethical and secure AI landscape.”

Learn to mine coal

People had these same concerns are troubles during the industrial revolution, when machines started to work better, faster, and cheaper than human labor doing the same job. Is there going to be a serious upheaval in labor again? Yup. Is it a bad thing for the world? In some ways yes, in other ways no.

The industrial revolution has done horrible things to the global environment. At the same time, many more people are much better off today than they were in the early 19th century.

Government undoubtedly should regulate AI progress towards protecting vulnerable occupation, but such positions as copywriter will inevitably go away - it's a part of progress, it's just need to be less painful and shocking

To be fair, passing out free samples at a grocery store is also trivial to automate.