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ted (not lasso)
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3 takeaways from a new study on ChatGPT’s impact freelancers in online labor markets: 1. Productivity: web developers saw job volume jump 6.5% and earnings jump 66.5% given AI’s use as a productivity partner. Marketing, PR, branding and photography also saw earning gains. Good for creative industries. 2. Displacement: translators saw job volume drop 9% and earnings drop 29.7% given AI replaced routine tasks. Writing and localization also saw earning losses. Bad for routine or structured industries. 3. Researchers argue that every industry has an AI inflection point where it switches from enhancing human productivity to replacing it; once you hit the inflection point, there’s no turning back (and ChatGPT upgrades have no impact on this). https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/4f39375d-59c2-4c4a-b394-f3eed7858c80/content
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Max Miner
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Did you use ChatGPT to writer these takeaways? 😏 The findings are about what I expected. Productivity burst for certain roles where AI can’t do the whole job yet in the short term, followed by labor commoditization, replacement, and race-to-the-bottom economics in the long term. I imagine customer support and data entry/analysis are in the same boat as translators.
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ted (not lasso)
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lmao no but I should. I usually ask for it to critique a study’s methodology before I read it so I can better decide if it’s worth it for me to read; if methodology super flawed, then it’s not. I wasn’t surprised by outcomes but made me consider that some creatives are the loudest anti-AI voices yet see gains.
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Max Miner
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to be clear, your post didn’t read as if it was AI generated. just thought it would’ve been clever if it had been.
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