According to a recent survey from Vice, employees using ChatGPT to work multiple jobs is becoming more common. One worker, going by the name of Ben for the sake of anonymity, admitted he took on a second job after realizing he could implement the AI tool in the office. Ben’s position involves helping financial-technology companies market new products, and once he started utilizing ChatGPT to assist with daily job tasks, he found himself with a lot of extra time.
Ben claims to use AI to create content and write messages to his manager, directing the bot to make communication with his boss look as humanly as possible by using techniques such as all lowercase lettering. He even went as far as to apply for a second job by using the chatbot to write his cover letters.
“That’s the only reason I got my job this year,” Ben claimed. “ChatGPT does like 80% of my job if I’m being honest.”
He went on to say, “I can just tell it to create a story, and it just does it for me, based on the context that I gave it.” He did mention that the text needs an occasional tweak but does a sufficient job for the most part.
Employees’ experiences with multi-tasking with help from AI intertwines with the overemployment trend which started with the pandemic’s mandatory remote work where some capitalized on taking a secret second job. The phenomenon dubbed “overemployment” entails white-collar employees boosting their income through multiple positions.
More powerful than we probably anticipated, Google has found that it, hypothetically, would hire the chatbot as an entry-level coder if it interviewed with the company.
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