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ted (not lasso)
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3 takeaways from a new study on ChatGPTās impact freelancers in online labor markets: 1. Productivity: web developers saw job volume jump 6.5% and earnings jump 66.5% given AIās 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, thereās 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? š The findings are about what I expected. Productivity burst for certain roles where AI canāt 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 studyās methodology before I read it so I can better decide if itās worth it for me to read; if methodology super flawed, then itās not. I wasnāt surprised by outcomes but made me consider that some creatives are the loudest anti-AI voices yet see gains.
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