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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by NavinF on Monday September 18, 2023 @12:41AM (#37552312)
>I’ve been evangelizing the business benefits of enterprise technology for more than two decades, first as a marketing executive and more recently as a freelance writer. At IBM, I was known as a “Software Evangelist,” and my work always had me delivering secular sermons about the redemptive potential of the latest computer program or hardware.

>As an apostle of digital transformation, a prophet of workflow orchestration, I gushed with messages from the gods of tech about how products like AI and RPA would allow corporations to be born again—or at least generate higher earnings.

>And then, earlier this year, things started to go a little quiet. When you’re a freelancer, a slowdown is never good, but I grew more alarmed as a client notified me that they would no longer require my services because they were switching their content writing to AI. Others simply dropped me and didn’t send a note. Several more accused me of using AI in my writing, so why would they pay me?

This is a skill issue. If your writing is indistinguishable from AI, it has negligible value

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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by brucethemoose2 on Monday September 18, 2023 @01:46AM (#37552652)
> This is a skill issue. If your writing is indistinguishable from AI, it has negligible value

On the contrary, I think many such freelancers are way ahead of LLMs, but they are just too expensive in comparison. No amount of quality is worth the extra cost.

All this does beg the question of what happens when bots are talking to bots on either end.

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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by Nevermark on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:27AM (#37552913)
I am imagining a world of long term context bots all negotiating with each other, over resources and services, in nanosecond time frames. In an environment where misinformation is both possible, and therefore competitively necessary.

What dynamics and sub-dynamics would arise?

An hour goes by, like a century for us.

A strange dystopia.

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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by funnybeam on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:38AM (#37552983)
Accelerando by Charles Stross covers this well

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...

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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by janosdebugs on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:41AM (#37553010)
The world hasn't been kind to evangelist-type people in the last few years. For a while, they got a whole lot of freedom, but the people I knew either got their leash pulled and now strictly need to shill company products or were let go/switched jobs.
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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by nvm0n2 on Monday September 18, 2023 @12:19PM (#37558280)
> If your writing is indistinguishable from AI, it has negligible value

Yes, now. But the point is, that wasn't the case before.

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