Workers grappling with the rapid growth of artificial intelligence have said they feel “devalued” by the technology and warned of a downward trajectory in the quality of work.
Recent analysis by the International Monetary Fund found AI would affect about 40% of jobs around the world. Its head, Kristalina Georgieva, has said: “This is like a tsunami hitting the labour market.”
Workers who have trained AI models to replace some or all of their roles tell the Guardian about their experiences.
The story is ultimately the same as it ever was: Businesses are looking for ways to make employees work harder while paying them less. But now an editor can be told to fix an AI-mangled manuscript and paid less… Because the business class has fallen under a collective delusion that the AI is actually good at its job.
They don’t care if it’s good at the job, just cheaper and they can get away with claiming its good enough