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Translators, 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.

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zozbot2341mo ago

Call 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".

coldteaOP1mo 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.

zozbot2341mo 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.

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zozbot2341mo ago

> And there's no shortage of companies press releases about cutting down thousands of jobs and saying it's because they leverage AI.

coldteaOP1mo 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.

zozbot2341mo 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.

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