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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 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.

It 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-taki...

https://archive.vn/C5syl

Well 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?

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