ChatGPT and other AIs are theoretical machines built on human data. Can an algorithm write an article about the 2008 financial crisis? Of course! it has read G

ChatGPT and other AIs are theoretical machines built on human data. Can an algorithm write an article about the 2008 financial crisis? Of course! it has read God knows how many Wikipedia articles, books and online discussions about it. But everything the AI knows is because some humans put in the work and documented everything. If we don't know something, be it a historical fact or a scientific model, we have the ability to go out in the real world and record the data. Can ChatGPT fly to Yemen and interview refugees? Can ChatGPT tear apart the circuitry of a home appliance, reverse engineer it and write a blog post about it? Can ChatGPT go to a lab and make chemical experiments to create new compounds? No, it can only regurgitate what it knows and even what it doesn't know. ChatGPT will absolutely steal the job of all the "journalists" that just regurgitate what others have already written. Original research and field reporting will be left to the real journalists for God knows how many decades. If your job consists of actually making new things or collecting real-world data then I think it will be safe for the decades to come.