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It happened to me today: $80/hr writer replaced with ChatGPT

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Re: It happened to me today: $80/hr writer replaced with ChatGPT

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I don't think I'd accept anything worse than McDonald's if they paid me to eat it.

McDonald’s already is that product. It costs 1/4th as much as a restaurant burger. And half the time it’s just as good.

Don’t live in the US, but most cooks here don’t like making burgers or any type of ‘fast food’, so when they have burgers, it’s usually a beer bar and the burgers are much worse than McDonald’s. And personally I find McDonalds inedible, let alone most of the rest.

Re: It happened to me today: $80/hr writer replaced with ChatGPT

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If AI output is 60% as good as a person, but costs 1/1000th the price... what decision maker is going to justify paying 1000x more for 40% more quality? We're really in for it. What if there was a cheeseburger that was 50% as good as McDonalds but was only a nickel? That'd be real bad for the McD's share price.

> If AI output is 60% as good as a person, but costs 1/1000th the price... what decision maker is going to justify paying 1000x more for 40% more quality? We're really in for it. Really depends on the type of output. For content marketing that most people are just going to skim over anyway (aka is just going to be used for blogspam/content farming, which is what it sounds like the linked writer was doing for this cli…

>you can look at, for example, generic store-brand colas, which taste exactly the same as Coke and Pepsi and are cheaper

Eh, nope? Like, absolutely nope

Re: It happened to me today: $80/hr writer replaced with ChatGPT

#153

If AI output is 60% as good as a person, but costs 1/1000th the price... what decision maker is going to justify paying 1000x more for 40% more quality? We're really in for it. What if there was a cheeseburger that was 50% as good as McDonalds but was only a nickel? That'd be real bad for the McD's share price.

What if a flight only cost a nickel, but there was a 40% chance it blew up? Not all errors are equal. Sometimes 99% as good isn't even close to good enough. But, yes, for most things 60% for 1/100th the price, is going to cut it.

Give this option to the thousands that take rickty boats from Asia and Africa for a better life. All your flights will be full.

Re: It happened to me today: $80/hr writer replaced with ChatGPT

#154

If AI output is 60% as good as a person, but costs 1/1000th the price... what decision maker is going to justify paying 1000x more for 40% more quality? We're really in for it. What if there was a cheeseburger that was 50% as good as McDonalds but was only a nickel? That'd be real bad for the McD's share price.

What if a flight only cost a nickel, but there was a 40% chance it blew up? Not all errors are equal. Sometimes 99% as good isn't even close to good enough. But, yes, for most things 60% for 1/100th the price, is going to cut it.

60% reliable car at 1/1000th of price might not be horrible deal. 13-50 vs 13000-50000 and surely you will accept quite many break downs. Even if you need to call taxi and buy new car...

Re: It happened to me today: $80/hr writer replaced with ChatGPT

#155

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If a team of five people with five "assistants" does the things that previously took a team of ten people, that means that five of these people got replaced by automation.

Oh no, 5 people will be freed from the shackles of a bullshit job, the horror.

People generally tend to work at the best job they can get, so after being "freed from the shackles of a bullshit job" they'll have to take a job that's worse, or worse paid, or both.

Re: It happened to me today: $80/hr writer replaced with ChatGPT

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IMO, the quality is demonstrably poor at present, I don't think any dev worth their salt is going to be concerned when at best, it's only what people could have done with boilerplate tooling twenty years ago, but even that was superior.

It's 1000s of times better comprared to what we had a year ago. Imagine what we'll have in 3,5,10 years.

Plenty of folks saying that it likely won't get that much better with the current paradigm, and blogging about the "why".

Re: It happened to me today: $80/hr writer replaced with ChatGPT

#157

So this person lost his job to an AI because it's way cheaper and slightly worse. Why not hire chatgpt yourself? Instead of resigning because of chatgpt, use it for your advantage. Instead of taking 10 clients, take 100 at 10x less your usual price. You literally have the cheapest and best sidekick money can buy. The industrial revolution ended a lot of jobs but also started new ones. Like inventing, managing and mai…

I like this logic because the writer is probably better at prompting, editing and reviewing, so there's definitely added value. But surely there's too much friction involved in having 10x more clients (think invoicing, customer acquisition, etc).

Re: It happened to me today: $80/hr writer replaced with ChatGPT

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We can only hope that when this day comes, we end up with fully automated gay space communism. But the reality will probably be that plumbers and builders become the next tech bros telling us to learn tiling. Just go with the flow I guess. If tech becomes automated, move to the next thing.

what happens to the wages of plumbers and electricians when 200 million people start retraining to be them?

This is an excellent and overlooked point. Everyone is talking about intellectual jobs being at risk - what happens when these college graduates are forced to do manual labor instead?

Re: It happened to me today: $80/hr writer replaced with ChatGPT

#160

So this person lost his job to an AI because it's way cheaper and slightly worse. Why not hire chatgpt yourself? Instead of resigning because of chatgpt, use it for your advantage. Instead of taking 10 clients, take 100 at 10x less your usual price. You literally have the cheapest and best sidekick money can buy. The industrial revolution ended a lot of jobs but also started new ones. Like inventing, managing and mai…

This is a very different job. People who love writing will tend to be miserable spending their time with prompting and curating AI output.
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