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My Mum Started Using ChatGPT for her LinkedIn posts
2 years ago
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My mum is the entrepreneurial type who has hundreds of connections on her LinkedIn. Most of her (daily) posts contain photos of her with ambassadors, CEOs, executives and other business gurus from around Asia and the beyond.
Recently, she's got herself involved in ChatGPT, and starting since yesterday, has begun making posts using AI generated (or rather, machine learned) text with prompts from her own experiences.
We had dinner together, and she talked about how all sorts of mass content creation will become AI generated. "If you were a business who needs a generic photo, why not get an AI generated image to do that? It cuts costs!" She says. "Also, Chat GPT will make writing increasingly obsolete".
As much as many content creators might boycott AI, I think we are in for a transformation of our industry to a sort of luxury good/service (if it wasn't already). I do predict that AI generated mass/commercial media content will become very stale, predictable, inflated and saturated. Yes, jobs have been hit, and there have been artists who have already lost their careers due to AI. In fact, my mum told me she no longer needs me to check her LinkedIn posts' grammar since Chat GPT does that for her already. But what I believe is that, just like Vinyl records, us artists will become a luxury good, we become more valued for our human touch.Unless, of course, the generation after gen-Z are only exposed to AI-generated content and no longer value human made content, then I guess we are more screwed LOL.
Overall, I am happy for my mum, but also nonplussed. Because if every person in LinkedIn begins using Chat GPT to generate posts there, LinkedIn is going to become a very soulless "circlejerk" place full of overtly boastful posts about "meeting the Chairman of <Awesome Company> at <Awesome X event>".
We are still in a bit of a "wild west" situation in terms of the proliferation of machine learned content creation to the masses. But sooner or later, I expect governments to step in the next few years that would regulate the industry to protect artists and content creators from suddenly finding themselves without a job they've spent years working towards.
~JAF
My mum is the entrepreneurial type who has hundreds of connections on her LinkedIn. Most of her (daily) posts contain photos of her with ambassadors, CEOs, executives and other business gurus from around Asia and the beyond.
Recently, she's got herself involved in ChatGPT, and starting since yesterday, has begun making posts using AI generated (or rather, machine learned) text with prompts from her own experiences.
We had dinner together, and she talked about how all sorts of mass content creation will become AI generated. "If you were a business who needs a generic photo, why not get an AI generated image to do that? It cuts costs!" She says. "Also, Chat GPT will make writing increasingly obsolete".
As much as many content creators might boycott AI, I think we are in for a transformation of our industry to a sort of luxury good/service (if it wasn't already). I do predict that AI generated mass/commercial media content will become very stale, predictable, inflated and saturated. Yes, jobs have been hit, and there have been artists who have already lost their careers due to AI. In fact, my mum told me she no longer needs me to check her LinkedIn posts' grammar since Chat GPT does that for her already. But what I believe is that, just like Vinyl records, us artists will become a luxury good, we become more valued for our human touch.
Overall, I am happy for my mum, but also nonplussed. Because if every person in LinkedIn begins using Chat GPT to generate posts there, LinkedIn is going to become a very soulless "circlejerk" place full of overtly boastful posts about "meeting the Chairman of <Awesome Company> at <Awesome X event>".
We are still in a bit of a "wild west" situation in terms of the proliferation of machine learned content creation to the masses. But sooner or later, I expect governments to step in the next few years that would regulate the industry to protect artists and content creators from suddenly finding themselves without a job they've spent years working towards.
~JAF
I am a hobbyist writer and world builder, and I have long worked on my own work of fantasy, and spent lots of time noting down details such as locations, people, cultures, faith, schools of magic, etc. I have collected all of these ideas neatly in this online app called World Anvil, and is also available for public viewing.
BUT. I am not a native English speaker, and all though my vocabulary is very good (if i do say so myself), I am not able to write down my lore and stories in an interesting ''bookish'' format. The wording escapes me, I become repetitive, my own writing is that which is stale. This is where I too have come to use ChatGPT. I feed it my drafts, and it makes far better narrated content for me, and is very capable at adding that spice or soul to my work.
I don't see AI as something that will replace creators, but as a new tool for creators to use to save time and effort, or to go beyond what they were originally capable themselves. As it is not the AI that decides what is good and what is not, I make that choice, and I am able and often do fix any imperfections by hand.
Not the other way around...
As for LinkedIn - I agree. It's sometimes so fake, calculated,and nonsensical it makes me sick
Also let's imagine where could have we been by now, if resources had been moved from marketing and making people buy useless stuff to for example space exploration, or cancer treatment