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Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ... by dmix on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @11:12AM (#35962943)
GPT is so far from threatening “every single person who writes words for a living” anyway. Unless you’re writing generic SEO filler content. Not sure who is claiming that but they don’t understand how it works if they do exist at scale.

Writing has always been a low paid shrinking job well before AI. Besides a tiny group of writers at the big firms. I took a journalism course for fun at UofT in my spare time and the professors had nothing but horror stories for trying to make a job out of writing (ie getting a NYT bestseller and getting $1 cheques in the mail). They basically told the students to only do it as a hobby unless you have some engaged niche audience. Which is more about the writer being interesting rather than the generic writing process.

Re:OpenAI chief goes before US Congress to propose licenses ... by 0ct4via on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @11:37AM (#35963321)
You say that... then we encounter cases like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35919753

While AI isn't going to put anyone out of a job immediately (like automation didn't), there are legitimate risks already in that regard -- in both fiction and nonfiction sites, folk are experimenting with having AI basically write stories/pieces for them -- and the results are often good enough to have potentially put someone out of the job of writing a piece in the first place.