The AI boom is screwing over Gen Z | ChatGPT is commandeering the mundane tasks that young employees have relied on to advance their careers.::ChatGPT is commandeering the tasks that young employees rely on to advance their careers. That’s going to crush Gen Z’s career path.

  • Dnn@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Bullshit. Learn how to train new hires to do useful work instead of mundane bloat.

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      2 years ago

      100% if an AI can do the job just as well (or better) then there’s no reason we should be making a person do it.

    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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      They don’t want to train new hires to begin with. A lot of work that new hires relied on to get a foothold on a job is bloat and chores that nobody wants to do. Because they aren’t trusted to take on more responsibility than that yet.

      Arguably whole industries exist around work that isn’t strictly necessary. Does anyone feel like telemarketing is work that is truly necessary for society? But it provides employment to a lot of people. There’s much that will need to change for us to dismiss these roles entirely, but people need to eat every day.

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        2 years ago

        Indeed: at least in knowledge based industries, everybody starts by working with a level of responsability were the natural mistakes a learning person does have limited impact.

        • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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          One of my interns read the wrong voltage and it took me ten minutes to find his mistake. Ten minutes with me and multiple other senior engineers standing around.

          I congratulationed him and damn it I meant it. This was the best possible mistake for him to make. Everyone saw him do it, he gets to know he held everything up, and he has to just own it and move on.

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      I fully agree, however doing some mundane work for a few weeks while you learn is useful. You can’t just jump straight into the deep work.

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      2 years ago

      The problem is really going to be in the number of jobs that are left with 40hrs of work to do.