Several months ago I revisited a couple of online job listings, and at first it's been funny to read a new requirement: "we ignore applications created by generative AI".
Then I've stumbled upon the flip side of the coin: the job descriptions copy pasted from chatbots. And it feels more like a tendency than a couple of isolated cases.
Think about a company led by an owner willing to make money by riding the generative AI wave. He or she is hiring rapidly some assistants good at prompting, so to acquire projects and temporary workers meant to complete the projects. Obviously the temporary task force also needs to be great at prompting, because that's the core value of the business.
In such a company all the personnel is sucked into a bubble, where the lack of technical expertise is okay, and low quality is not a problem while there is sufficient market demand for their product or service. In my opinion the basic use case of chatbots will contribute to the retooling of the companies producing for the soho market.
Recently I've started to use an online service for checking the job offers, and to filter out those authored by a chatbot. It's risky to argue with a client eventually outsmarted by an assistant tasked to publish a project-based job, which looks a good fit to my expertise, but down the road it turns into an unexpected challenge for both of us.
The companies offering text analyzers for identifying contents authored by generative AI are serving the needs of the middle market. Stopping people from doing all kind of experimentations with chatbots is not a good idea, but preventing the improper usage of generated contents is a matter of common sense.
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