22 YO Suffers Anxiety, Panic Attacks After Losing Job To ChatGPT. Will This Be The Story Of Many Others?
AI is stealing jobs and livelihoods!
The world as we knew it changed when technology and the internet became accessible and now with AI becoming just as accessible, things have been changing. We’ve all been hearing of how ChatGPT is affecting the livelihood of people who work as writers. One such case is of a 22-year-old Kolkata-based student who worked as a copywriter and ghostwriter for an agency until ChatGPT changed things. Sharanya Bhattacharya’s life took a U-turn after her writing assignments were reduced drastically without any explanation from the agency.
According to media reports, 22-year-old Sharanya Bhattacharya earned over Rs. 20, 000 per month by writing SEO articles but everything changed in late 2022. The writer’s assignments began reducing which affected her income. While no explanation was provided by the agency, the writer suspects this happened due to the rise of ChatGPT.
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This drastically affected not just Sharanya’s life but also her family. The 22-year-old girl supported her family and her mother who earned by selling sarees. Speaking to the media, Sharanya revealed that this has affected her and her family’s lifestyle who have to now cut costs to be able to afford basic necessities. She also revealed that all this has affected her mental health as well as she is not struggling with anxiety and panic attacks. The 22-year-old writer also urged companies to think about the people who are losing their job to AI while adding that humans bring a “unique value” to the table, unlike AI-generated content. FYI, Sharanya Bhattacharya is currently studying biologic science at the Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research.
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Like Sharanya Bhattacharya, there are many other people who are losing their livelihoods as AI takes over the world. AI has been replacing people as businesses continue to cut costs and save money by turning to ChatGPT to write content for them. The AI revolution is changing industries across the globe and adding to the unemployment rate across fields and countries.
The SAG-AFTRA strike is the biggest example of how the AI revolution has left people fearing for their jobs and livelihood. The entertainment industry operates on copywriters, scriptwriters and other such creative people but thanks to Artificial Intelligence, things have begun changing and while it may have begun with the entertainment industry, the way things are going, it will soon affect other industries as well.
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