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AI could kill creative jobs that ‘shouldn’t have been there in the first place,’ OpenAI’s CTO says

“I’m not an economist, but I certainly anticipate that a lot of jobs will change,” Mira Murati says.

“Some creative jobs maybe will go away,” Mira Murati told her alma mater, the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth University, in an interview earlier this month. Since ChatGPT and similar technologies came on the market, the number of freelance jobs posted on Upwork, Fiverr, and related platforms have dropped by as much as 21%, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of online learning behemoth Coursera and a proponent of AI, cites a statistic from the University of Pennsylvania that 49% of workers could have half or more of their tasks exposed to large language models like ChatGPT.

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