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> I've read articles about businesses laying off people specifically to replace them with AI Out of curiosity, were these announcements by AI companies or comp
by dartos 2y ago
> I've read articles about businesses laying off people specifically to replace them with AI
Out of curiosity, were these announcements by AI companies or companies with an interest in AI companies?
At lot of articles you read are effectively advertising, especially if it’s a CEO talking about their company.
- hn_throwaway_99 2y agoIt was an article from the point of view of people who actually lost their jobs due to AI. People are simply in denial if they think this isn't happening. And this article is from nearly 2 years ago. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/02/ai-taking-jobs/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/02/ai-taki... https://archive.vn/C5syl https://archive.vn/C5syl
- dartos 2y agoWell OC was referring to mass layoffs. That article seems to be about contracted copywriters. If your whole job is writing “150-word descriptions” (the article’s words) for $60 an hour and the like, yeah LLMs got you beat. But that’s a far cry from mass layoff territory. Also, in that same article, he was rehired by a (granted, a single) client who didn’t like chatgpt. What is the rate of clients that dropped chatgpt?