A few days after ChatGPT was delivered to the world through the midwifery of OpenAI, and, if we're being honest, the womb of Nvidia GPU, I started playing with the generative AI platform, asking it to write about one of my favorite topics but in my style of writing. I joked in a tweet that I was obsolete.
A year later and I'm not obsolete, and few journalists like me have lost their jobs as a direct result of ChatGPT or AI in general (though publishers have tried and failed, spectacularly in some cases, to use it to replace writers). I'm not arguing that some in media haven't lost their jobs or been deprived of work as a result of the rise of ChatGPT and its imitators, but direct cause and effect on a significant scale is not there yet.
