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> very many will struggle without work or prospects. People always say this with zero evidence. What are some real examples of real people losing their job tod
by zozbot234 9mo ago
> very many will struggle without work or prospects.
People always say this with zero evidence. What are some real examples of real people losing their job today because of LLMs. Apart from copywriters (i.e. the original human slop creators) having to rebrand as copyeditors because the first draft of their work now comes from a language model.
- Throaway1982 9mo agobook keepers, graphic artists
- nicksergeant 9mo agoI wouldn't let an LLM touch my business's books with a 10 foot pole.
- Throaway1982 9mo agome neither, but that's because I used to be a bookkeeper. There's accountants though who have data entry people under them who they market as "bookkeepers," and they are now being replaced by AI. Most small business owners in particular dont care.
- generic92034 9mo agoIf your corp is large enough to use a full-sized ERP system it will no longer be your choice to make. The whole software industry is desperately trying to fit AI functions into every pore of their software, ERP vendors being no exception.
- coldtea 9mo agoTranslators, graphic designers, soundtrack composers, call center/support workers, journalists, all have reported devastating losses coinciding with LLM use. And there's no shortage of companies press releases about cutting down thousands of jobs and saying it's because they leverage AI.
- zozbot234 9mo agoCall center workers are bound to a fixed script, they're basically humans who play robot as their job. Replacing this with AI is a welcome development. As for jobs like translator, graphic designer and journalist, it's only the extremely low-end work that can possibly be replaced with LLMs. Not an issue if they move upmarket. > And there's no shortage of companies press releases about cutting down thousands of jobs and saying it's because they leverage AI. These press releases are largely fake. "We're leveraging AI now" sounds a lot better than "whoops, looks like we overhired, we have to scale back and layoff workers because there's no demand for what we're doing".
- coldtea 9mo ago>Replacing this with AI is a welcome development. Not if you fed your kid doing it, and now you can't. > As for jobs like translator, graphic designer and journalist, it's only the extremely low-end work that can possibly be replaced with LLMs. Not an issue if they move upmarket. Yes, fuck the 90% of those working in that space, and let's hope the 10% gets an "upmarket" gig there. All this grand-visioning sounds devoid of empathy and real understanding of millions of real people's situations and needs.
- zozbot234 9mo ago> Not if you fed your kid doing it, and now you can't. Which happens all the time anyway. There just aren't that many people for whom being a call center worker is their long-term career, they'll just switch to some other job.
- direwolf20 9mo agoThis works until we run out of sensible jobs, which may have already happened.
- coldtea 9mo agoThere are millions upon millions of people where there is no "long-term career" period, just regular shitty and more shitty gig jobs and low end work like this, from factories and workcenters to burger flipping, to deliveries, loading, to cleaning, and everything in between. And they are getting increasingly squeezed and out of options.