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AI replacing jobs isn’t just a theoretical idea, it’s actually happening, according to a new study.
Henry Win Chiu, a researcher at Bloomberry, a labor and employment trends website based in Queens, New York, said: examined 5 million data points See which jobs are most likely to be replaced by AI, and which are already being replaced.
Chiu is also the co-founder of the content marketing platform buzz sumowe took the 12 most popular freelance jobs on the freelance hub Upwork and tracked how postings changed over 30 days. Before ChatGPT is publicly available Until February 2024.
He found that most job categories saw an increase in postings, with three notable exceptions: writing, translation, and customer service.
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All from November 1, 2022 to February 14, 2024, writing jobs decreased by 33%, translation jobs decreased by 19%, and customer service jobs decreased by 16%.
“As this is probably the most popular use case for ChatGPT, we definitely expected a decline in writing jobs, which is reflected in the -33% decrease in writing jobs,” Chiu said. is writing.
He elaborated that it’s no surprise that customer service jobs have declined due to the rise of AI customer service chatbots.
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Jobs increased in almost every other category, with video editing/production jobs increasing by 39%. Posts of freelance jobs such as graphic design, web design, accounting, sales, and web development also increased.
Chiu said in his report that he decided to analyze freelance jobs rather than full-time or part-time jobs because the freelance market is most likely to be affected by AI first.
He explained some of the data. Generative AI tools may be powerful enough to replace writing tasks, but tasks like image and video generation still fall short of standard-quality results.However, his recent OpenAI could change that announced Sora’s text-to-video AI generator.
Another explanation could be that users do not yet understand how to fully use the AI tool.
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a 2023 Upwork Survey Freelancers make up 38% of the U.S. workforce, and freelancers are 2.2 times more likely than other professionals to regularly use generative AI for tasks like research, brainstorming, and coding. was shown.
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