HALF the companies using ChatGPT say it has already replaced workers (Fortune)

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12. Some top execs, low level supervisors, and everyone in between don't care about quality

or accuracy.

But hey, why should top execs care about accuracy or plagiarism, or hallucinating AI that just makes stuff up, when they can cut payroll?

Once upon a time, I was a new engineer. As a brand new engineer needing something to do, my boss often gave me unimportant projects that nevertheless some kind of response was needed. It was get it done quick, if they (the recipient) complains, well, no problem here.

A chatGPT type of solution that just spewed out something that somewhat fit the request would have been just fine with him/them. Perfect actually.

A person like me and most engineers who take pride in their work and just can't knowingly and deliberately produce crap -- that wasn't a fit at all.

By the way that boss, even though an electrical engineering superintendant at a major electric utility, ended up leaving and working for his father's auto dealership. I had forgotten about him all these past 40 years. Then about 5 years ago I read in the paper that he was responsible for cheating many law enforcement agencies on equipment upgrades to their vehicles -- hundreds of vehicles. It blew me away to see his name (and I verified that yup, that's the same guy for sure). And yes, he pressured employees to do this stuff and one or two of them eventually whistle-blew on him.