Interviews with copywriters on generative AI's impact: their work used for training, layoffs, wages and rates in free fall, freelancers losing clients, and more
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/i-was- forc... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : “I managed bots replacing my team until they replaced me.” A former support lead's warning. This piece details AI erasing copywriters, with customer support and software development next in line. — While ‘good enough’ automation takes over, many in tech remain sadly in denial about the coming shift. Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant : When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground. — For many, it was even worse than they'd feared. Mastodon: Peter / @peter@thepit.social : imo it's a little disturbing how many writers made a living writing SEO and marketing dreck, and i think part of the reason they are so easy to replace is that no one expects anyone to actually **read** it. https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/ ... Baldur Bjarnason / @baldur@toot.cafe : ‘"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry’ — https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/ ... Industries that grew over decades will take decades to rebuild, if ever, even when they were destroyed overnight. Miguel Afonso Caetano / @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org : “How have the copywriters been faring, in a world awash in cheap AI text generators and AI adoption mania? As always, we turn to the workers themselves. And once again, the stories they have to tell are unhappy ones. These are accounts of gutted departments, dried up work, lost jobs, and closed businesses. … Forums: Hacker News : Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry