The Safest Job from AI may be Writing
Murat Demirbas argues that writing may be the job safest from AI: while the programmer's job description is being "completely refactored", writing "remains surprisingly unaffected". LLMs produce prose readily, but in Demirbas's view it is stuck in an uncanny valley the labs have failed to escape, while image, voice and video models kept improving. Writing is the extreme "wicked problem", with no specification, no stopping rule and no objective check, unlike maths and code, where verification can be mechanical, and good prose needs a model of the reader's mind. Comparative advantage and costly signalling, Demirbas adds, make an authentic human voice worth more as slop spreads. The post offers no data, and asks readers to "Tell me where my logic does not hold up".
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