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theemachinist | 1 year ago

Already seeing content writing freelancers struggling to secure work on Facebook. Improvements to Gen AI will only exacerbate this problem going forward.

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ChainOfFools|1 year ago

can't imagine the chaos unfolding in high school and college freshman English composition classes, where for the sake of grading ease, "fairness" and simplicity (and more than any of these, instructor complacency) students are encouraged and incentivizes to write in a very mechanical and formulaic style near perfectly emulated by the default behavior of ChatGPT and friends.

Training, rewarding (and thus selecting for opportunity in favor of) people who optimize for and pride themselves on mechanical precision and speed in their work is setting them up to be defeated by the actual machines they will be competing against in the market.