Whether that be artist/engineer/musician etc..? I want to hear about it.
Has anyone here had their jobs affected by AI in a negative way yet?
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Re: Has anyone here had their jobs affected by AI in a negative way yet?
#2I'm a software engineer and I also write fiction. (90+% of my income for SE, as you might guess).
For the fiction, editors are getting flooded with submissions written or assisted by LLMs, so the competition has increased and editors have less time to evaluate submissions. It's all the way up and down the chain: online magazines, small press, agents, big publishers. Not life-changing for me. I think it has been for some of them.
At work, one of the non-technical managers is writing code with ChatGPT. It's a little like working with a junior developer who doesn't know that they are junior. I don't mind that he's writing code, but he's only taking the interesting and low hanging fruit. The difficult and tedious work is still left to the engineers. I wish he would manage instead, because my team and the project we're on has little oversight or guidance. And we're not likely to get it because the lead manager is now a prompt-engineer. Not life-changing for me, again.
Re: Has anyone here had their jobs affected by AI in a negative way yet?
#3In the context of layoffs, I feel like junior software engineers have been indirectly impacted by AI. There's seemingly a lot of demand for senior talent and much less for junior talent.
I imagine at least some of this would be caused by real or imagined productivity gains from AI tools for coding. The typical executive might have gone from thinking "staff up at all costs!!" to "AI will mean fewer devs doing higher value work". As these decisions have come from the top, the implication around wanting to "increase talent density" feels like there's less room for junior, lower skilled workers. And I can't help but think there's AI tools in the back of these execs minds.
Re: Has anyone here had their jobs affected by AI in a negative way yet?
#4I'm a software engineer and I also write fiction. (90+% of my income for SE, as you might guess). For the fiction, editors are getting flooded with submissions written or assisted by LLMs, so the competition has increased and editors have less time to evaluate submissions. It's all the way up and down the chain: online magazines, small press, agents, big publishers. Not life-changing for me. I think it has been for s…
> editors have less time to evaluate submissions
If AI is increasing the flow of stories coming in, then shouldn't it also increase the rate of categorizing and rating stories by human editors?
I realize that an AI can't make a business decision, but maybe it can whittle down the pile of books for human editors to review from say 1000 submissions to maybe the 25 most promising ones
Re: Has anyone here had their jobs affected by AI in a negative way yet?
#5I'm a software engineer and I also write fiction. (90+% of my income for SE, as you might guess). For the fiction, editors are getting flooded with submissions written or assisted by LLMs, so the competition has increased and editors have less time to evaluate submissions. It's all the way up and down the chain: online magazines, small press, agents, big publishers. Not life-changing for me. I think it has been for s…
> editors have less time to evaluate submissions If AI is increasing the flow of stories coming in, then shouldn't it also increase the rate of categorizing and rating stories by human editors? I realize that an AI can't make a business decision, but maybe it can whittle down the pile of books for human editors to review from say 1000 submissions to maybe the 25 most promising ones
It's not increasing the appetite or demand for them though. Reviewers increase as demand increases, not supply.
Re: Has anyone here had their jobs affected by AI in a negative way yet?
#6I'm a software engineer and I also write fiction. (90+% of my income for SE, as you might guess). For the fiction, editors are getting flooded with submissions written or assisted by LLMs, so the competition has increased and editors have less time to evaluate submissions. It's all the way up and down the chain: online magazines, small press, agents, big publishers. Not life-changing for me. I think it has been for s…
> editors have less time to evaluate submissions If AI is increasing the flow of stories coming in, then shouldn't it also increase the rate of categorizing and rating stories by human editors? I realize that an AI can't make a business decision, but maybe it can whittle down the pile of books for human editors to review from say 1000 submissions to maybe the 25 most promising ones
I think there's a very real opportunity for an AI manuscript evaluator. I don't think there's a solution that does this now.
Re: Has anyone here had their jobs affected by AI in a negative way yet?
#7I've been losing sleep because there's no reason to ever 'sleep on it' when there is an obstacle.
Re: Has anyone here had their jobs affected by AI in a negative way yet?
#8Let me share a story about this from one of our customers.
My customer asked me about writing a smart contract but we did not had the capacity to handle it.
A few days after that, my customer gets back to me sharing a basic smart contract he managed to create using ChatGPT, since them, my customer has kept iterating over this, it took him a few weeks to get the functionality he wanted.
My customer explained to me that ChatGPT usually got the wrong details but he used to came back and explain the problems to ChatGPT, ChatGPT proposed many solutions until one of them was the correct fix.
Overall, my customer is very happy with this experience, he sees ChatGPT as a personal teacher, my customer is know very motivated to keep learning programming.
While I haven't been affected negatively, I'm sure that we'll hear more stories like this one.
Re: Has anyone here had their jobs affected by AI in a negative way yet?
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
> editors have less time to evaluate submissions If AI is increasing the flow of stories coming in, then shouldn't it also increase the rate of categorizing and rating stories by human editors? I realize that an AI can't make a business decision, but maybe it can whittle down the pile of books for human editors to review from say 1000 submissions to maybe the 25 most promising ones
It's not increasing the appetite or demand for them though. Reviewers increase as demand increases, not supply.
I'm just asking if technology lets content be created faster, then maybe technology similarly allows content to be reviewed faster.
Re: Has anyone here had their jobs affected by AI in a negative way yet?
#10Personally, I am terrified. I am doing GRC (Governance, Risk Management, Compliance) for a Marketing and PR Firm that is really just a digital marketing firm-- and we have already been told from industry insiders we can't bill over 70 dollars an hour for writers and expect to get the contract. I think AI has a very strong possibility of completely wrecking this industry and will allow either major marketing firms or extremely small 2 man shops to fracture the market driving out the mid-size and small firms.
So great time to throw this out there- I love GRC, have experience in SOC2, Iso27001 and NIST 800-171, and I am always looking for my next position. I also helped set up our Cost Accounting system and can perform both project management and implementation of system integrations. Contact me through HN.