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.

https://lemmy.world/post/1776666

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. - Lemmy.world

“I have no skills that couldn’t easily be automated, please have sympathy for me”
Copy dinner by ai is dull garbage.
Whatever ai is meant to be replacing here has to be garbage to begin with, if ai can replace it.

Remember when big corporations thought they could outsource 100% of customer service to india many years ago? Remember how well that went?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasdichter/2019/03/30/call-centers-return-to-the-u-s-more-companies-get-the-link-between-customer-service-and-profit/

Call Centers Return To The U.S. -- More Companies Get The Link Between Customer Service And Profit

Outsourcing customer service to overseas call centers was seen as a cost-savings to companies. Now, driven by higher customer expectations and the customers' means to express dissatisfaction, companies are realizing the wisdom of great customer service and bringing call centers home.

Forbes
Because of that fiasco, two of the largest communications companies in the USA won't allow Indian subcontractors at all unless overseen by one of their American contractors.

And the same thing is happening with AI. Friend of mine who is a programmer has a few side projects for customers. One of them got impatient trying to get him to fix a bug in their software. So instead they tried to use ChatGPT to fix the bug, and it went as well as can be expected.

Having worked with ChatGPT to program code, I've seen it literally invent fake modules, declare variables, call up this fake module and then never bother to declare the code for that special module (which supposedly does 99% of what you want it to do). And if you ask it to program the missing module, it simply declares that module and calls up a new magical module that still does 99% of the desired work. It's and endless loop that goes nowhere lol

And there are still loads of call centers staying in India and the Philippines.
And there will be loads of companies who insist on using AI in the future..... but not all will - because they'll learn that like everything, there are limits to it's capabilities.
You have so much faith in the corporate decisionmaking, that you automatically assume their decision was definitely based in reality and 100% correct. Fucking pathetic. Other dude already pointed out how fast companies were to outsource customer service to India, not because it was better or even sufficient, but because it was cheaper.
I've read lots of dull copy written by humans
But it’s cheaper than dull garbage written by a human.