Labor and Economics

Chat-GPT (#2)

Is the white-collar world about to be hit like Flint, Michigan?

'bumpyjonas…
5 min readJan 30, 2023

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The demolition site of Buick City, for many years General Motors’ flagship factory on the north side. — Public Domain photo

I have friends who are using CHAT-GPT. They are using it for all sorts of written tasks. I say they are playing with fire. When automation came to the industrial blue-collar areas in America, and when jobs were outsourced, these parts of the U.S. lost jobs like trees lose leaves in autumn. Some cities like Flint, Michigan, Dayton, Ohio, and Youngstown, Ohio never recovered.

What is Chat GPT and why should you care?

According to Popular Computers Guide, “Chat GPT is an AI chatbot auto-generative system created by Open AI for online customer care. It is a pre-trained generative chat, which makes use of (NLP) Natural Language Processing. The source of its data is textbooks, websites, and various articles, which it uses to model its own language for responding to human interaction.”

To summarize, Chat GPT is a computer system that can write, speak, and think and write like a human being or sort of. You, the human feed it information, and it can write something for you like this essay I am writing. This is why this is a game changer for many more people in the workforce or for people who have not even entered the workforce yet. It can do this, a skill a lot…

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'bumpyjonas…

word scratcher, baller...shot caller, born in a city made of chocolate.