How Stuff Works replaced writers with GPT-generated content and laid off editors
How Stuff Works replaced writers with GPT-generated content and laid off editors
One of my former (and very long-term) freelance gigs, How Stuff Works, has replaced writers with ChatGPT-generated content and also laid off its excellent editorial staff. It seems that going forward, when articles I wrote are updated by ChatGPT, my byline will still appear at the top of the artic...
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This is going to happen for a while. Execs who actually have no clue have now been sold on the idea that AI lets them keep making money without paying labor.
It will fail eventually when the execs eventually take the time to learn what AI is capable of and what it isn't capable of.
Who am I kidding? It'll continue indefinitely because there are few consequences for clueless executives.
Execs won’t take the time to learn that, they will learn it only by losing market share to the competition.
By that time they'll already be at the next company.
"That was two golden parachutes ago, what do I care?"
Businesses should automate the executives instead of labor.
What will probably happen is that people catch on that the content all reads alike and wonder why they shouldn’t just ask ChatGPT directly. Traffic to these sites die down, they panic, and start hiring writers.
I see a possibility where these sites eventually become terrible and there is a new person can come in and make content made by humans.
Even edited by humans would be better than that
Not even inpainting smh