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zozbot234yesterday at 2:03 PM2 repliesview on HN

> very many will struggle without work or prospects.

People always say this with zero evidence. What are some real examples of real people losing their job today because of LLMs. Apart from copywriters (i.e. the original human slop creators) having to rebrand as copyeditors because the first draft of their work now comes from a language model.


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coldteayesterday at 2:45 PM

Translators, graphic designers, soundtrack composers, call center/support workers, journalists, all have reported devastating losses coinciding with LLM use. And there's no shortage of companies press releases about cutting down thousands of jobs and saying it's because they leverage AI.

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Throaway1982yesterday at 2:20 PM

book keepers, graphic artists

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