SwiftOnSecurityThere's some embedded cultural commentary on the fact news stories are asking if ChatGPT will replace your job instead of your boss's job.
James M.@SwiftOnSecurity I remember reading many years ago a study that indicated: When asked which jobs would eventually be automated, most managers guessed that the jobs just below their level would be.
ニルス・スキニール@jamesmarshall @SwiftOnSecurity
easiest jobs to automate are management and marketing.
aside from the schmoozing part, even CEO jobs could easily be automated.
easiest jobs to automate are management and marketing.
aside from the schmoozing part, even CEO jobs could easily be automated.
James Grimmelmann@jamesmarshall @SwiftOnSecurity puy this together with the Peter Principle and …
John Breen@SwiftOnSecurity Actually, I was thinking of having ChatGPT interact with the Insperity platform next time the self-review task is due. Then if my boss is also using ChatGPT to construct my review, the loop will be closed, and we can both retire and let ChatGPT convince itself that value is being generated...
Kevin Kolk@jab01701mid @SwiftOnSecurity I already did this with my last review worked great for speeding up the process.
QuincyPeck@jab01701mid @SwiftOnSecurity this is the future. Just AIs generating content to be shared by AIs and aggregated by AIs. All pure profit for corporations in an elaborate “value” machine. NFTs were just a preview.
Nick 'The Viking'ChatGPT will replace those news story generators and middle management long before they'll replace me swapping a moto clutch or designing automation.
SensibleOtterTechnically the bosses job is already replaced with ‘workflow’ and ‘automated-approvals’ 🥳
Christina Warren@SwiftOnSecurity I use ChatGPT (well, GPT-3.5) as part of my job because my job includes creating content showing people how to do stuff with Copilot. I do often want to ask it how long it will be until it can create demos and write funny video scripts on its own.
Mark Gardner@film_girl @SwiftOnSecurity Wait, you use one #OpenAI #GPT3-based product to instruct people how to use another #GPT3 product?
So you’re working yourself out of a job teaching others how to work themselves out of their jobs?
McLaren Stanley@film_girl @SwiftOnSecurity forgive me a dumb question but where do I go to consume said content?
Denton@SwiftOnSecurity they’ve already replaced the managers!
Ask the chat bot how to make more money at a company with too many employees and it’ll tell you less employees!
Loaded questions? No, AI responses, ML predictions, graphs!
ward@SwiftOnSecurity I brought that up when talking to an executive a couple days ago... And he was like, "I will keep working because I like to work... And I'll get a raise because of all the people I can fire." The bosses will probably get fired eventually, but the executives will just take all the extra money for themselves; even if ai replaces their job, they will keep getting paid.
The Doctor@SwiftOnSecurity Bosses can get away with more than the rest of us.
shell@SwiftOnSecurity There's some embedded cultural commentary on the fact news stories are asking if ChatGPT will replace your job instead of rendering toiling for survival obsolete.
Joe Uchill@shellmanac @SwiftOnSecurity Honestly, that’s what I find most interesting - that we’re systematically committed to exacerbating class structure through automation than benefitting everyone.
Our wake up call should have been people accepting the Harry Potter universe. Perfect automation yet there are still poor Wizards.
@JoeUchill @SwiftOnSecurity the Harry Potter universe as a dystopia is one of my favourite topics to unpack.
JKR: You can do almost literally ANYTHING with magic, my dude. I'm talking teleportation, time travel, mind control, effortless torture, the perfect murder, you name it!!
Us: Eradicating food insecurity?
JKR: No no, THAT one's unethical
Sweeten the streets@shellmanac @SwiftOnSecurity you would hope that people will put two and two together and realize more entitlements equals more security!
Mike McBride@SwiftOnSecurity fear sells. Tell people their job might go away and they'll click/tune in. Tell them their boss will go away and they'll say "cool" and move on.
Penguin Pete@SwiftOnSecurity Saying ChatGPT can replace any job at all is like saying the calculator replaced all of the mathematicians.
@penguinpete @SwiftOnSecurity Yes, but a calculator that when the math gets too hard, just makes something up!
Max Leibman has moved!@SwiftOnSecurity This is surely a highly viable use case—frame up business case studies for ChatGPT and I bet it will sound indistinguishable from the typical MBA.
@SwiftOnSecurity Middle manager holds content brainstorm to ask team of ChatGPT instances to quickly go around the GPT table for content to serve to content consuming click bots.
Drew Mochak@SwiftOnSecurity Aren't AI's better than humans for "managing performance," at least if you believe the logic that leads you to replacing other peoples' jobs? Not only doesn't the computer have to give a shit about you, it isn't even expected to. None of the humans want the accountability of firing people anyway, it's a win win.
@objectinspace @SwiftOnSecurity I would take performance review from an AI. Currently, you can pose the question: "why am I the best performer in the company?" and it will make a BS answer that supports that.
helmsinepu@SwiftOnSecurity
I always wondered why they don't outsource CEO positions. I'm sure a company could save millions just by moving one job.
I always wondered why they don't outsource CEO positions. I'm sure a company could save millions just by moving one job.
@helmsinepu @SwiftOnSecurity Because CEOs have to make some of the most nuanced decisions with the most limited information of anyone in the company. The fortunes of the CEO should be aligned with the fortunes of the company. Who wants a temp CEO?
They seem to make idiotic decisions, and usually they're not inconvenienced by the decisions they make.
@helmsinepu @SwiftOnSecurity Sure, you can point to idiotic decisions made by CEOs. But would an outsourced CEO be better? What do we even mean by this? An agency CEO? It's almost a contradiction in terms.
Welp, an AI probably woudn't do massive layoffs, because they're historically bad for the businesses that do them.
https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/
What explains recent tech layoffs, and why should we be worried? | Stanford News
As layoffs in the tech sector mount, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer is worried. Research – by him, and others – has shown that the stress layoffs create takes a devastating toll on behavioral and physical health and increases mortality and morbidity substantially. Layoffs literally kill people, he said.
AGTMADCAT 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼🇵🇸@SwiftOnSecurity I don't have a boss at the moment, checkmate atheists!
Metl Mann@SwiftOnSecurity Is it wrong I am completely uninterested in ChatGPT? Or Open AI for that matter.
BagheeraAltered 
@SwiftOnSecurity cause the guy with equity in the company can't lose his job that easily
HTTP 1.1/418 Teapot@SwiftOnSecurity "ChatGPT: Write a performance review for a staff member with these goals, but I need it to be the low score on the stack rank..."
Eric S. Smith@SwiftOnSecurity Slapping “FYA” on an FW:FW:FW:FW:FW:FW:FW e-mail does sound like a job for an AI — an AI I’d hate to work for, so everybody loses.
Jon Tullett@SwiftOnSecurity Yeah but how many of those stories were written by humans? ;)
Harry Turtledove@SwiftOnSecurity One needs artificial stupidity, not artificial intelligence, to do most boss' jobs. Ask Elon.
chaircrusherHonestly do management know how little they matter?
I have worked places where people get laid off for "business reasons" but it's always low level people first, when they could save the same salary cost laying off 1/2 as many middle managers, & retain the people who actually do the work.
But if you lay off middle management, upper management would have no one to do their jobs for them.
David W. Jones@SwiftOnSecurity Reminds me of Phillip K. Dick's homeopapes: http://technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=637
There's also a novel I read, but have forgotten title and author. Automated newspapers have been setup; completely autonomous, self-powered, gathering their own news, etc. And one of these papers is running a series of articles about a military conqueror's progress across the United States. A conquest that *isn't* happening in the real world of the story. So is the newspaper making it up, has it tapped into an alternative world, or is this the future of the story world?
Reminds me of Fox News and #RepUblicanSSIANS 'culture war', which should really be 'class war': billionaires vs everyone else.
zbeckerI have heard of a company using ai as a middle manager. It turned out to be the best middle manager they'd ever had.
RetroDevDaemon@SwiftOnSecurity Stories generated with ChatGPT nonetheless
msgbi Markus Sagebiel
Soozcat@SwiftOnSecurity I want to see the thinkpiece that says, "If your boss were replaced by a robot, would anyone notice?"
🌲🧿 "Max"t💽d🏵️n 🔎🍄@SwiftOnSecurity AI could easily replace Elon Musk.
Lebowski@SwiftOnSecurity is AI smart enough to convincingly replicate the cluelessness of middle management?
antipode77Guess ChatGPT will be eminently able to spout management speak.