"His reward for going along with those demands, after being a faithful servant for 17 years at the edutech company? Getting replaced by a large language model, along with a couple dozen of his coworkers. That's, of course, after his boss reassured him that he wouldn't be replaced with AI. Deepening the bitter irony, Cantera - a researcher and historian - had actually grown pretty fond of the AI help, telling WaPo that it "was an incredible tool for me as a writer.""
"He'd become somewhat of an AI whisperer, claiming he gained a mastery over putting in prompts that helped the AI generate accurate, non-hallucinated info, which he always made sure to review, edit, and rewrite, per WaPo. "I considered the LLM as a collaborator," Cantera added. "My productivity was off the charts." The LLM was a collaborator alright - a collaborator with his boss."
An edutech researcher embraced ChatGPT at his employer's encouragement and used it as a collaborative writing tool, mastering prompts and carefully reviewing outputs. After 17 years of service he and a couple dozen coworkers were replaced by a large language model, despite prior reassurances from management that replacements would not occur. Many employers are rapidly firing or shrinking workforces and deploying AI agents to assume tasks. Attempts to substitute human expertise with current generative models often produce hallucinations and quality failures, prompting some employers to rehire. Survivors of cuts face increased workloads and pressure to use AI to compensate.
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