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I dont think the office job class is ready for ChatGPT, Midjourney and AI

Whenever the discussion about automation comes up it tends to focus on manufacturing and manual labor but AI tools like ChatGPT are going to decimate huge parts of the “office job” space. The obvious one is content creation and writing. Marketing as a whole will be dead. All the ad copy, logos and such will be AI generated. At most you will need someone to plan/manage your ad campaign. Customer service is on the chopping block. Why pay call center agents when ChatGPT can converse with people and handle the mundane parts. At most you'll need a few managers to handle escalations. Data entry/reporting positions won't survive. Again, language models could handle these tasks. Even jobs where writing is only a portion aren't safe. You'll see cuts because people will have extra time for other tasks making positions redundant. We are looking at a huge wave of vanishing jobs from…


Whenever the discussion about automation comes up it tends to focus on manufacturing and manual labor but AI tools like ChatGPT are going to decimate huge parts of the “office job” space.

The obvious one is content creation and writing. Marketing as a whole will be dead. All the ad copy, logos and such will be AI generated. At most you will need someone to plan/manage your ad campaign.

Customer service is on the chopping block. Why pay call center agents when ChatGPT can converse with people and handle the mundane parts. At most you'll need a few managers to handle escalations.

Data entry/reporting positions won't survive. Again, language models could handle these tasks.

Even jobs where writing is only a portion aren't safe. You'll see cuts because people will have extra time for other tasks making positions redundant.

We are looking at a huge wave of vanishing jobs from a class of people who generally believe their positions safe.

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