OpenAI chief technology officer: Creative jobs will disappear with AI tools

Recently, OpenAI chief technical officer Mira Murati made some controversial remarks during a talk show held at Dartmouth College’s School of Engineering. "Certain creative jobs will disappear with the development of AI tools, but maybe those jobs shouldn't exist in the first place," Murati said when discussing the cooperation between AI tools and human creativity. Her remarks quickly aroused strong reactions online. , many netizens expressed dissatisfaction and believed that her remarks devalued the value of workers in the creative industry.

Image source: Mira Murati, chief technology officer of X OpenAI, said at the event: "Some creative jobs may disappear."

Netizens angrily criticized: It is a great insult to artists and workers in the creative industry

Murati's remarks sparked widespread criticism on social media. Many netizens believe that OpenAI is trying to undermine the efforts of artists and creative workers through such remarks, and accuse her company of profiting from artists' original works to train their machine learning models.

Image source: X Netizens criticized OpenAI for stealing ideas from creative workers

Critics on social media pointed out: "Murati's comments not only devalue artists and creative workers, but also ignore the importance of these professions to culture and society."

They believe that Murati's views show that OpenAI does not attach enough importance to creative work, which is contrary to the company's original mission of developing "safe and beneficial" AI.

Artificial Intelligence Anxiety, Will AI Take My Job?

As artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies continue to advance, practitioners in many industries are worried about their career prospects. According to Gartner's latest forecast report, global IT spending is expected to reach $5 trillion in 2024, an 8% increase from last year, and this growth will mainly come from increased AI-related investment in 2023-24. However, this has also raised concerns among white-collar workers about their jobs being replaced by AI tools.

Source: Gartner Gartner predicts that global IT spending is expected to reach $5 trillion in 2024

Websites such as “willrobotstakemyjob.com” provide insights into which jobs are most likely to be replaced by AI. High-risk jobs include logistics, office and administrative support, media work, financial clerks, information and records clerks, and more. However, there are also reports that the emergence of new technologies will bring new job opportunities. For example, research by David Autor of the MIT Department of Economics found that since computers were introduced in the United States, the productivity of highly educated workers has increased dramatically, but they have also displaced the jobs of middle-skilled workers.

Will AI really lower the barriers to entry for jobs in the creative industries?

During the discussion, Murati also mentioned how AI tools are changing the way we interact with information and ideas, making it easier for people to express their creativity.

"The AI ​​tools we are developing, such as Sora, GPT-4o, DALL·E and ChatGPT, are technically very impressive. But what is really important is how they change the way we interact with information and ideas (sic) "Murati said.

Murati believes that AI tools can lower the threshold for creativity, allowing anyone to express creativity with a prompt. However, this view also raises questions about whether AI tools truly respect and value creative workers. Creative workers are not just "special" or "elite"; they are important recorders and narrators of society, culture and history.

As the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda said: “The best poets are those who prepare our daily bread: the baker closest to us who does not consider himself a god but merely a companion. duty to complete his solemn and simple work."

Therefore, OpenAI Chief Technical Officer Mira Murati’s remarks were considered a smokescreen to devalue the value of creative workers, which caused people to fear and resent this emerging technology. In the past, some netizens said on social media: "I hope AI will do the laundry and dishes for me, so that I can have time to do art and writing; instead of AI doing art and writing for me, I will do the laundry and dishes. "

Image source: X Netizen expressed the hope that AI can help with chores rather than replace my creative work