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I thought this was a good and fair article on the topic, which is kinda rare because often you just get tons of speculation. This article was just filled with r

I thought this was a good and fair article on the topic, which is kinda rare because often you just get tons of speculation. This article was just filled with real people who actually did lose their job due to ChatGPT, and I think it just shows the tip of the iceberg. I would really be worried right now if I were a marketing copywriter. I've seen (and posted about) examples where ChatGPT still falls behind human ingenuity, but the fact is that it really only falls behind some of the best of human ingenuity. Just guessing, but I'd believe that ChatGPT is as good as or better than 75% of copywriters, and even for that upper tier of copywriters, probably only about 10-15% of the writing they do is in an area where the additional quality makes a difference. Just a worrisome future ahead in my opinion.

nradov 3y ago
No one actually reads most of that copy anyway. It's the knowledge work equivalent of digging a hole just to fill it in again. Totally pointless, and done more out of inertia than any real business value.
- ertian 3y ago
  Saw a comic in the early days of ChatGPT, I wish I'd saved it: What the applicant writes: "I want this job." How the application is sent: "Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to you today to inquire about the position of blah blah blah..." What the recruiter reads: "This guy wants this job." I'd like a tool I could point at a modern tech company website to read through all the meaningless ad copy and buzzwords and spit out a two-sentence summary of what the thing actually does.
  - ericbarrett 3y ago
    ChatGPT can already do this. In fact, I think it's much better at this kind of summarization task than it is at novel text generation. You'd have to write some glue code to automate it via the API, though I'd be surprised if there aren't open source tools to do it already. As a demo, try this prompt; you might have to trim some to stay under the token limit: Summarize the major arguments and sentiment of the following Hacker News posts. Provide your answer in a brief, bullet-point format: <paste text of HN comment thread here>
    - nradov 3y ago
      Microsoft is busy integrating GPT into all of their products. I expect the next release of Outlook to have a button to generate an AI summary of long messages.

nradov 3y ago

No one actually reads most of that copy anyway. It's the knowledge work equivalent of digging a hole just to fill it in again. Totally pointless, and done more out of inertia than any real business value.

ertian 3y ago
Saw a comic in the early days of ChatGPT, I wish I'd saved it: What the applicant writes: "I want this job." How the application is sent: "Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to you today to inquire about the position of blah blah blah..." What the recruiter reads: "This guy wants this job." I'd like a tool I could point at a modern tech company website to read through all the meaningless ad copy and buzzwords and spit out a two-sentence summary of what the thing actually does.
- ericbarrett 3y ago
  ChatGPT can already do this. In fact, I think it's much better at this kind of summarization task than it is at novel text generation. You'd have to write some glue code to automate it via the API, though I'd be surprised if there aren't open source tools to do it already. As a demo, try this prompt; you might have to trim some to stay under the token limit: Summarize the major arguments and sentiment of the following Hacker News posts. Provide your answer in a brief, bullet-point format: <paste text of HN comment thread here>
  - nradov 3y ago
    Microsoft is busy integrating GPT into all of their products. I expect the next release of Outlook to have a button to generate an AI summary of long messages.