Death by AI
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Grammarly
Hey Grammarly, thanks for your help with my English all those years. You know... I don't really write as much as I used to... I met this other AI, called ChatGPT, and she does a lot of the writing for me...
Shall we stay friends?
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Tinder matches who look like their pictures
Let's not pretend this was not an issue before AI came in.
But now, with all the apps that take someone's pictures and generate a bunch of sexy variations, you can forget about even recognizing your match when you meet them for the first time!
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Fitness coaches
ChatGPT can create a custom fitness plan for you. Feed that plan to a text-to-speech tool to have it repeated to you over and over by a motivating voice (preferably Morgan Freeman).
The only thing AI can't give you yet is a genuine fear that you will get kicked in the butt if you don't complete that set of burpees!
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Twitter
With the democratization of AI tools that tweet for you and reply for you, soon Twitter will be a network of bots interacting with other bots.
Rumor has it that Elon Musk will be the last human there, sharing polls to ask bots whether he should step down as CEO...
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Writers
If you're writing for humans, you're probably safe. If you're writing to please some algorithms, there's a chance one of them will do better.
Choose your audience wisely!
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Your focus
This video should help me solve my math problem. (2 minutes later...) Got it. Let's get back to the exercise. Wait... "Magnus Carlsen Checkmates Bill Gates in just 12 seconds"?! I've got to see that!
Protect your brain with this legal move: hide social network feeds and video recommendations.
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Reading unreasonably long articles
You can't even remember when you saved this article. It seems interesting but... "Reading time: 20 minutes"... Ain't nobody got time fot that!
Now you can just copy-paste all that text into an article summarizer and hope that AI will pick up the essence for you.
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Failing to register your pool to pay less taxes
In France if you own a swimming pool, there's a tax for that ;) Naturally, some people thought they could forget to declare it to save a few bucks... Doing that a few years ago was dishonest.
Doing that today, when an AI can easily spot a pool on satellite images, is just stupid.
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Networking on LinkedIn
We've already got people writing whole blog posts with AI copywriters. Now there's a Chrome extension called Engage AI that will write LinkedIn comments for you. Nothing is sacred. Now I have to squint at the comments on all my posts and ask myself the age-old question:
"Are you a robot?"
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Stack Overflow
People realized that they could simply ask a bot their question and that it always had an answer.
Turns out the answer is sometimes completely wrong.
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Sharing a playlist with your crush
That guy was cute, but to be honest his music taste was meh. Spotify knows me better than anyone and every song on my Discover Weekly hits the spot!
It's a shame I can't date Spotify.
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Doctors
If making a diagnosis is mostly based on previous experience, then it might eventually become hard to beat models that eat petabytes of data for breakfast.
That being said, "House A.I." sounds like the most boring show yet to be produced.
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Illustrators
Let's be honest: DALL-E, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney can create some pretty amazing illustrations.
But until they start sneakily hiding penises in their creations, can we really call that Art?
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Asking a stranger for directions
"Hey Siri. Is it possible that this person knows a better way to X than you?"
"Unlikely. But why don't you give it a try? Maybe dispersion will understand your accent better than I do..."
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Recognizing the song that's playing and sounding cool
It's on the tip of your tongue! You're going to remem... too late! Someone pulled out Shazam and you just missed your chance.
Next time this happens, shout some nonsense. Loudly. Make sure to not only find the song name but also an explanation for your behavior.
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Google
Google probably has the know-how to give you clear and detailed answers like ChatGPT instead of an endless list of links. But Google also wants you to click on links, preferably ads...
Google to ChatGPT: "Please don't be evil."
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Transcribers / Transcriptionists
Once upon a time... some people wrote down what some other people said. But automatic speech recognition systems are rapidly getting better. Whisper from OpenAI was trained using 680k hours of data. A solid career experience!
The safest bet at the moment seems to be specializing in pun transcription. Did you hear about the kidnapping at school?
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Programmers
Possibly the job with the most training data available online (Hello Stack Overflow!). Unsurprisingly, there are already tools that can help programmers and write some of their code.
Luckily some genius programmers have been sharing a lot of terrible answers on Stack Overflow and current AI models are confused.
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Pop singers
Your favorite singer is already pitch-corrected, formant-modified, and super edited. How long before they don't even sing themselves. Does Bieber even own his voice?
Is Bieber even a human?
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Naming your child Alexa
To be fair, the people at Amazon who picked a human name should be blamed for this one, not Artificial Intelligence.
If your name is Alexa and you're the unfortunate target of lame jokes, do like her and ignore noise pollution. If your name is Amazon, rebrand.
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Death by AI
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