With media companies like Vice shuttering last week, and mass layoffs at august publications like the Los Angeles Times last month, it feels like a vulnerable moment for humans who write. And the well-known propensity for programs like ChatGPT to write passable — if uninspiring — prose is well documented, but with its jaw-dropping new video model Sora, ChatGPT’s parent company OpenAI has renewed our collective sense that AI companies are on a mission to put people out of work.
Source: AI ‘writers’ are mostly worthless right now. But that won’t last.