No, AI Isn't Stealing All Jobs
Ok, so you’ve heard a lot about AI, how it jeopardizes the job market, and you’re now scared that it’s coming for you. We get it. But no need to panic. The flipside doesn’t look too scary.
While some of us fear losing jobs due to the rapidly evolving AI technology, some are actually turning it into a money-making opportunity.
Food photographer Sean Audet is among them. In an interview with CNBC Make It, he spilled the beans.
He said that he uses AI tools like ChatGPT to write emails and business plans and has turned his side hustle into a full-time gig in 2020. As a result, it helps him to save time and reduce workload.
“When a client first reaches out to me, I need to be able to quickly deliver a bunch of information about services and costs ... in a nice, succinct, and personalized way,” he recounted, adding that editing AI’s language can be faster than writing multiple paragraphs from scratch, Audet said.
However, Audet isn’t the only one benefitting from robotic assistance. People working as travel agents, content assistants, and artists do so too.
This includes Nicole Cueto, a PR consultant from New York. An avid traveler, she decided to turn her hobby into a gig where she helps others plan their trips in detail.
Before AI generative tools, she’d spent between five and seven hours on planning a single holiday day. ChatGPT helped her expedite the process by 50%
“I’ve been to Paris a thousand times, but if I have a client that wants to discover the depths of the city from an old school perspective, I don’t really know how to do that [from personal experience],” she says. “So, I’ll type in, ‘Give me a budget-conscious guide to Paris that incorporates historical neighborhoods where politicians lived in the 1880s.’”
Since January, Cueto has made an average of $670 per month from her side hustle.
Likewise, content assistants are making use of the burgeoning technology, with companies looking to hire part-time content assistants. While they do not generate the text per se, they make sure that it makes sense and is fact-checked.
Professionals like Upwork vice president of talent solutions Margaret Lilani state that there’s a high demand for this category of work among freelancers.
Are these the only professions?
The answer is no.
Gagarin News has reported on many similar cases, including in the field of translation.
In the EU, which brings together 27 European countries, requiring a great bulk of translations, AI is treading on translators’ heels. While that worries many workers, the EU bubble workers still understand that the fruits of AI’s labor need to be double-checked thoroughly.
Furthermore, they do not allow machines to translate sensitive political content.
Also, AI is still in its very nascence. Audet, for example, admits that he spent a lot of time practicing his AI prompts as he would’ve spent writing the emails and templates himself, he says: “It’s almost like having an assistant that you have to be really, really, really specific with.”
He says that while sometimes he’d get surprisingly good results if you have a white-glove service, then you need them to be perfect.
Still, he expects that in the future it’ll be more lucrative.
Previously, Gagarin News reported about Hollywood’s strikes against AI.
