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Unpopular opinion: you only hate chat gpt because it makes it harder to stack rank and discriminate against people.

So what everyone can write well now? great it's a tool! Just like moving faster because you drive a car.

The good news is you'll be easily able to hire for that writing job you need. The bad news is you won't be able to discriminate against candidates who are not as good with the written word.

Also, an obsession with the written word is a tenant of white supremacy [salute emoji]

Ian Rennie
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Man, this probably hits really hard if you're fuckin stupid.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (1 children)

ChatGPT is great because you can use it to show a potential employer how good your writing is for that writing job they'll totally pay you to use ChatGPT to do.

It is and always has been racism that has stopped bad writers from getting writing jobs.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Like, there is definitely racism in the hiring process and how writing is judged, but it comes from the fact that white people and white people alone don't have to code switch in order to be taken seriously. The problem isn't that bad writers are discriminated against it's that nonwhite people have to turn on their "white voice" in order to be recognized as good writers. Giving everyone a white robot that can functionally take their place doesn't actually make nonwhite people any more accepted. It's the same old bullshit about how anonymity means 4chan can't be racist.

I'm actually pretty sympathetic to the value of even the most sneer-worthy technologies as accessibility tools, but that has to come with an acknowledgement of the limitations of those tools and is anathema to the rot economy trying to sell them as a panacea to any problem.