Convulsive times are coming in everything related to the Artificial intelligence. Many still do not fully understand what it implies, others are directly terrified of it and meanwhile there are those who go around like crazy trying to decipher all its details to get to know it in depth and not be left behind. No matter where you are, the truth is that AI seems to have definitely arrived to revolutionize everything and in fact it is already turning some companies upside down…
Staff cut after the arrival of ChatGPT
It has been debated (and continues to be so) ad nauseam whether the AI it will end up taking our jobs and although the facts are denied so far, the truth is that we are already seeing the first throes of a reality that we may have to face in the not too distant future. The media platform insiders has fired 10% of its staffincluding writers, something that comes a week after its editor-in-chief, Nicholas Carlson, announced that his staff was going to start experimenting with ChatGPT.
as you know, this tool Developed by OpenAI, it is capable of offering very precise responses in real time, something it achieves by training with large amounts of text using deep learning techniques and natural language processing. Its capacity to generate information is infinite, assuming quite interesting support for certain jobs based precisely on generating information and texts (such as being a journalist).
Therefore, a week after starting to use ChatGPT, 10% of a template is dispatched is the least suspicious, although a spokesperson for insiders He has denied that one fact has any relationship with the other.
As they point out in gizmodo, The layoffs have been announced by email and respond, according to Barbara Peng, president of Insider Incorporated, to “significant pressure for more than a year” and great “economic obstacles” that are affecting both their clients and partners as well as themselves. . Even so, it is impossible for the shadow of the AI to plan on this decision, when it has been openly recognized that the platform was going to start being used. Open AI for a good number of tasks.
ChatGPT, an ideal substitute?
In the letter to the staff that insiders sent out last week, the firm acknowledged that they were looking to establish a group with staff which is responsible for adding artificial intelligence to the company’s workflow. He suggested that AI could thus be used to develop story outlines, find typos for save time to the editors -let’s remember that there is the figure of the Copy Editor, who is in charge of it-, create headlines optimized for search engines and even serve as a source of explanation of complex topics. It did ask that the editors not include the text directly (ie, word for word) generated by ChatGPT to their articles.
It is true that the technology sector is not going through its best moment and a wave of layoffs it has primed itself with other large media companies in the US. Even so, it is inevitable to think that these firms find the consolation or the definitive push by making use of solutions such as ChatGPT, capable of performing certain tasks that a person used to do – with the savings that this implies.
And you, do you think that the AI has finished giving the push for these layoffs or are they really two independent situations?
