ChatGPT Like Calculator in 1966. To Protest?

Once math teachers, now writers. A great piss-up

1966: Math teachers protest against calculator use

A few days ago, my son showed me a photo taken during the math teachers’ protests almost 60 years ago. They weren’t fighting for pay raises or early retirement. They were fighting against “allowing” calculators into schools.

Of course, this is reminiscent of modern fears over ChatGPT — this innovation is also feared by today’s teachers. The app writes essays for students and schools don’t know what to do about it. Should new teacher protests be expected?

To be fair, representatives of other professional groups may join the revolt. After all, the fear has fallen on programmers, lawyers and consultants of all kinds, as well as people who do the writing. These include journalists, copywriters, bloggers, screenwriters, authors of popular science books, etc. Perhaps it is only a matter of time when artificial intelligence will replace poets and novelists. Painters and computer graphics artists are also looking anxiously at their professional futures. It would be foolish to ignore the dissatisfaction of more categories of creators.

Cheap labor is coming

ChatGPT can answer questions in full sentences. It finds information, associates facts, creates text plans and even whole texts. Just as a calculator is better at counting than a human, ChatGPT is better at using words than many of us. So why shouldn’t it replace people in software houses, law firms, advertising agencies and the media?

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Surely ChatGPT would be a cheaper, loyal and obedient employee. It is known, algorithms do not need rest, do not demand compliance with the labor code, salary increases, and do not get pregnant. What’s more, employers don’t have to pay health and insurance premiums and taxes for them (although the latter may change, as there is an ongoing discussion around the world about taxing software and robot labor).

What will be the role of content creators in the ChatGPT era? This is perfectly explained by Jonah Peretti, head of BuzzFeed, who announced that this…