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OpenAI, together with freelance platform Upwork, released survey results on November 10 comparing ChatGPT usage against demand for freelance work. Analyzing 63 job categories, they found that the more a field relied on ChatGPT, the lower the share of job postings on Upwork tended to be. On 5ch, opinions split: some said they already feel illustration and writing work drying up, others countered that AI is just an efficiency tool and doesn’t actually take jobs away, and still others worried about whether this would spread to general corporate jobs and video production too.
Is “ChatGPT Is Stealing Freelance Jobs” True? Upwork Surveys 63 Fields
On November 10, OpenAI released survey results conducted jointly with freelance platform Upwork comparing ChatGPT usage against demand for freelance work. Analyzing 63 job fields, they found that categories with relatively heavy ChatGPT use tended to see a decline in the share of job listings on Upwork.
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Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Yeah, it churns out way better illustrations in just a few minutes.
The sharp unknown illustrators are already delivering AI output plus touch-ups.
And honestly, that's fine as it is.
Whichever office drones become redundant will be first on the layoff list.
For now, ChatGPT ("Chappy," as it's nicknamed here) says companies are absorbing people internally by shifting them to sales and the like, so there hasn't been mass firing yet.
There's no shortage of work checking and fact-checking whatever AI spits out.
The wording may be slick, but it doesn't actually understand the content — read closely and it often falls apart.
With domestic demand already shaky and price hikes unavoidable,
getting shuffled off to sales sounds like hell.
There's plenty of work out there — bus and truck drivers, rebar workers, scaffolders, you name it.
That just frees you up to do other work, right?
That's fine if "other work" is actually available to that person — but if it isn't, they just lose their job outright.
And since everyone who gets pushed out floods into the jobs AI can't take,
competition spikes there too, on top of pay getting driven down.
you're living on borrowed time until someone realizes humans aren't needed at all.
Whether you celebrate it or not, once "humans aren't needed" becomes reality, everyone's livelihood ends equally, so what's the difference?
Are you planning on becoming a god or something?
How long are you idiots going to keep doing unnecessary manual work?
Requests on sites like Lancers (a Japanese freelance marketplace) are going to crater.
Except for the ones with political connections, freelancers are basically done for.
AI is seriously going to take their jobs.
Eventually AI will be winning the Naoki Prize and the Akutagawa Prize (Japan's top literary awards).
Didn't a past winner already use it?
The moment you're competing against an AI that runs 24/7/365 without ever sleeping, you've already lost.
Nah, footage that's obviously all-AI just kills the vibe.
That's a bystander's opinion. Even against something that runs around the clock, I've crushed AI before with a Boolean algebra hack.
But no matter how hard they try, humans still end up passing out from exhaustion, don't they?
Workman (a Japanese workwear retailer) said they no longer need a design agency for marketing and ads — not even freelancers.
They said something that used to cost 3 million yen to make now costs zero.
Given how many ads they run, of course they'll use it if it works.
They also said it's huge that location shoots are no longer needed.
In other words, it's not just labor costs —
they're cutting total expenses across the board.
Thing is, that design agency was outsourcing work to freelancers instead of doing it in-house anyway.
That's not quite right.
Why University of Tokyo specifically?
That framing itself is the mistake.
Everyone and everything has its own strengths.
An all-around capable person is rare.
That's why people band together to form companies.
But an AI that pools all of human knowledge can do everything.
University of Tokyo? That's trash.
The resolution's rough and pixelated too.
Things keep changing fast.
If all you look at is dumb work, you end up dumb yourself.
I cracked up seeing a JR train-car ad with a disclaimer that said "This was made by AI."
Just for you:
A new image-generation AI called "MiniMax-H3-Image" has arrived, capable of generating 16-megapixel images —
it runs locally and supports image editing and multi-image reference too.
gigazine.net/news/20261111-minimax-h3-image/
It's decent at image generation, programming, and PC-related stuff,
but in fields without clear-cut answers, it answers questions with total confidence while often being wrong.
Calculations especially still have a long way to go,
and for law it mostly just regurgitates interpretations and precedents favoring the drafter's intent — relying on that alone often isn't good enough.
"It answers" and "that's wrong" — isn't that just a one-way exchange?
You're using it wrong.
It's exactly like Japan's test-based education — ask a question, grade the answer —
and that approach is completely wrong.
Background and Key Points of This Debate
It’s worth noting that this survey is a correlation analysis OpenAI itself ran jointly with Upwork. The finding that “fields with heavier ChatGPT use see fewer job listings” is a correlation — it doesn’t prove AI directly took anyone’s job. Within the thread, individual creative freelance work like illustration and writing tended to get lumped together with salaried corporate roles like general office jobs, but the two differ in how easily they can actually be replaced. There’s also a view that, rather than AI completely replacing human labor, new jobs — like checking and fact-checking AI-generated output — are emerging at the same time, which frames this less as work disappearing and more as the nature of work shifting. On the other hand, companies really are cutting back on outsourcing to freelancers in favor of in-house production and AI use, and in some fields this is already showing up as lower per-job rates and fiercer competition.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Speed+) thread “Is “ChatGPT Is Stealing Freelance Jobs” True?“
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