"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry

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abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 1d (12 replies)

If you duslike AI coding, you should see it write

BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 1d (10 replies)

You HAVE seen it write. You have definitely seen it write poorly. However, you've also seen it write at a level where you didn't even notice it wasn't human written.

Just because something CAN produce bad output does not mean it can only produce bad output.

I can produce excellent output. I am also fully capable of producing slop. I'm human btw.

baldingpudenda@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 1d

I'm human btw.

abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1d (6 replies)

Sure, but it's not the CEO that makes the AI produce good texts. It was the copywriter that just got fired.

BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca · -5 pts · 1d (5 replies)

With the right skills built out first, the CEO absolutely could be the person doing that.

LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 1d (4 replies)

And then they’d be called a copywriter.

BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 1d (3 replies)

Not if they're the only employee left... still CEO.

LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 1d (1 reply)

Then they’d be the janitor too.

BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 1d

That is correct.

abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d

Self-employed coppy writer

MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 1d

You're absolutely right!

phonics@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 22h

I think any thing over 3 paragraphs I can tell every time. Im hearing it in youtube scripts. The word 'honestly' comes up far to much. As well as the phrase 'not X but Y'.

tempest@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1d

I "develop" software using codex/Claude. I am so so so so sick of the way Claude writes I think I'm going to puke.

riskable@programming.dev · 8 pts · 1d

I’ve heard from copywriters who now fear losing their apartments, one who turned to sex work,

One of these jobs is not like the others!