Good morning. Quite a high proportion of journalistic output on the sudden explosion in generative AI is now prefaced with an announcement that the author has asked ChatGPT to write on their behalf. I am much too motivated by self-interest to follow that approach, which seems to me less like turkeys voting for Christmas than turkeys slathering themselves in butter, turning the oven up, and hopping on in.
At the fringes, there are already ominous signs of the outlook for content drones like me: witness, for example, the news that BuzzFeed has published a series of (quite bad) travel guides bylined “Buzzy the Robot”. Meanwhile, there have been reports of illustrators replaced by AI image generator Midjourney, and nearly half of business leaders in a US survey said that they expected layoffs as a result of the use of ChatGPT before the end of the year.
