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Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

take a course on ChatGPT yourself.

There is an incredible gap between the output of "some random manager somewhere telling ChatGPT to write some fluff text" and employing things like One/Multi-shot prompting, output templates, cues, hints, context, ask-before-answer prompting, perspective prompting, emotional prompting, ladder prompting. With the right knowledge of ChatGPT you could be the guy that replaces you!

ChatGPT is coming, and the government sockpuppets of our capitalist dictatorship are under no pressure to save the working class from it, so the best thing you can do for yourself is to beat them to the punch.

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Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

Gumball Gumption posted:

There is not in fact an incredible gap but the smart thing to do is pretend there is and you're not just a copy-writer but a ChatGPT whisper.

Yeah I guess in fairness I've used it a lot more as a coding assistant than I have for any real natural language stuff, but after learning a bit about how to more better prompt it I've been able to get the code I want out of it with fewer regenerations/additional prompts

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

Main Paineframe posted:

The big problem with this line of thinking is that you don't have a long history of specialized education or experience in ChatGPT prompting. There's plenty of fresh-out-of-college kids who have just as much training and experience in using ChatGPT as you do. When managers are looking for ChatGPT operators, they're not going to want existing mid-to-senior-level employees with all the skills and experience (and salary expectations) that ChatGPT is meant to trivialize. They're going to replace your whole team with an intern who spent their summer break tinkering with prompts for fun. For a while, they might keep one or two senior employees around to check the AI's output and advise the intern, but the end goal of all this is going to be to render your existing skills and experience totally obsolete. It seems like you get that, but the consequences run deeper than you seem to think.

ChatGPT3 has only been out for a few months, which means that few people have more than a few months' experience making prompts for it. This creates a level playing field - a high schooler who thought "ChatGPT is the future" and has been studying prompting since the day it came out will have just as much experience as a senior engineer who thought "ChatGPT is the future" and has been studying prompting since the day it came out. Except that the senior engineer also has twenty years of engineering experience and is used to high salaries, while the high schooler has no particular specialized skills besides prompt-writing and will be thrilled to be brought on as an intern for entry-level wages.

For a while, the existing employees' product knowledge and specialized skills/experience may allow a few of them to move into "ChatGPT operator" roles while the technology is still new, although employers will probably try to weasel a pay cut out of it. But in the long run, if ChatGPT makes your existing skills and experience completely unnecessary, taking a couple of ChatGPT courses isn't necessarily going to put you on a competitive playing field against an obedient fresh college grad with low salary expectations who took a ChatGPT course in college.

I mean, in my specific scenario that'd be in breach of our CBA and CWA would put its massive war chest behind a lawsuit because we have specific language against the use of ChatGPT "or other AI-based solutions" to eliminate roles in our CBA.

So I guess the answer, as it always is is: Unionize!

eta: yes, I realize the irony in my stated solution being about as comprehensive as the directive to "just vote!" ;)

At least Union elections matter in the immediacy though!

Lib and let die fucked around with this message at 15:27 on May 19, 2023

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