"I Was Fired Because of ChatGPT"

AI Threatening High-Income and Creative Jobs
Work Processing Errors and Biases Remain Challenges to Solve

The American daily newspaper The Washington Post reported on the 2nd that ChatGPT has begun to take away people's jobs in the marketing and social media content sectors. According to the article, Olivia Lipkin, who lives in San Francisco, was laid off by her company without any explanation last April. Lipkin was working as a copywriter at a tech startup.

Lipkin said, "Since ChatGPT was launched last November, my workload decreased over several months, and posts about how to use chatbots for work started appearing on the internal messenger," adding, "I saw posts from company managers saying that using ChatGPT was cheaper than paying copywriters." Lipkin believes the reason for her dismissal is clear.

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In this way, as the quality of artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly improves recently, concerns about AI such as ChatGPT replacing human jobs are actually occurring in the United States. Some AIs can not only converse with humans without awkwardness but also compose music, write texts, and create computer code?areas that were once considered creative domains.

Experts say the emergence of AI that uses complex algorithms to generate text, images, and sounds could cause a new level of disruption. AI could replace high-wage knowledge workers.

American investment bank Goldman Sachs predicted in March that generative AI like ChatGPT could affect 300 million full-time jobs worldwide, with white-collar jobs being the most impacted.

Lee Sun Molik, Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, told The Washington Post in an interview, "In the past, the threat of automation was about difficult, dirty, and repetitive tasks, but now it directly targets the highest-paid and most creative jobs that require high education," adding, "Jobs such as copywriting, document translation, document drafting, and legal assistance are particularly at risk of being replaced by AI."

However, he said, "Advanced legal analysis, creative writing, and artistic fields will not be easily replaced because humans still outperform AI in these areas."