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The AI boom is screwing over Gen Z | ChatGPT is commandeering the mundane tasks that young employees have relied on to advance their careers. (www.businessinsider.com)
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The AI boom is screwing over Gen Z | ChatGPT is commandeering the mundane tasks that young employees have relied on to advance their careers.::ChatGPT is commandeering the tasks that young employees rely on to advance their careers. That's going to crush Gen Z's career path.

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[–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not quite. It's more that a job that once had 5-10 people and perhaps an "expert" supervisor will just be whittled down to the expert. Similarly, factories used to employ hundreds and a handful of supervisors to produce a widget. Now, they can employ a couple of supervisors and a handful of robot technicians to produce more widgets.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem is, where do those experts come from? Expertise is earned through experience, and if all the entry-level jobs go away then eventually you'll run out of experts.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Education. If education was free this wouldn't be a problem, you could take a few more years at university to gain that experience instead of working in a junior role.

This is the problem with capitalism, if you take too much without giving back, eventually there's nothing left to take.

[–] tagliatelle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't get experts from education. You get experts from job experience (after education).

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You definitely don't get experts from unemployed people, or from people working to the bone doing menial labor for minimum wage.

Education is a broad term, that could include apprenticeships where you do get real work experience. And education would have to change a lot in all areas. The point is, the government can support people to gain that experience, the problem is that right now it isn't. It's common to exit just a bachelors degree with crippling amounts of debt.

[–] tagliatelle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And it's viewed more positively in the society to have a bullshit Bs or Ms than a (usefull) trade degree

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

I wasn't commenting on what type of education is better or worse than another. The point is that we need to support people through education.