It definitely took out a lot of jobs from the lowest rungs of the market, but on the more specialized / upper end of the ladder wages got actually higher and a lot of companies got burned, and now they have to readjust. It's rolling over slowly still, as there a lot of companies selling AI products and in turn new companies adopting those products. But it tells you a lot that
A) a company selling an AI assistant last year is now totally tied to automating busy work tasks around marketing and sales
B) AI writing companies are some of the busiest in employing human talent for... writing and editorial roles!
It's all very peculiar. I haven't seen anything like this in the past 15 years... maybe the financial crisis and big data was similar, but much much smaller at scale.
We were naive to think we could have nice things for free.
But OpenAI is having a hard time retaining/increasing ChatGPT users. Also, Alphabet's stock is about as valuable as it's ever been. So I don't think we have evidence that this is really challenging Google's search dominance.
But ChatGPT has really hurt Google's brand image.
The questions I still ask Google, have a lot of monetary value (restaurants, cloths, movie, etc).
But I agree seems SO often helps more than Google-AI.
