A MAN with four full time jobs says he uses ChatGPT to slash his workload and his bosses have no idea.
The hugely popular AI bot ChatGPT appears to be the talk of the digital town.
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The internet’s favourite chatbot reached 100million users just two months after it was first launched in November last year.
Since then, that figure has grown steadily with many people using it for lengthy pieces of code and essays.
And it can even hold conversations, learning from things that you’ve said.
Many workers are now using the AI to turbocharge their working situation and make life easier for themselves, reports Vice.
One Ohio-based technology worker claims he upped his number of jobs from two to four after he started to integrate ChatGPT into his work process.
“I think five would probably just be overkill,” he added.
While some, like Ben, were drawn into the overemployed community as a result of ChatGPT.
About a year ago, Ben found out that one of his friends had quietly started to work multiple jobs at the same time.
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The idea had become popular during the pandemic, when working from home became normalized, making the scheme easier to pull off.
Some of these workers who hold down multiple jobs now refer to themselves as the “overemployed.”
The idea excited Ben, who asked to not use his real name, but he didn’t think it was possible for someone like him to pull it off.
He helps financial technology companies market new products; the job involves creating reports, storyboards, and presentations, all of which involve writing.
The Toronto based worker said there was “no way” that he could have done his job two times over on his own.
Then, last year, he started to hear more and more about ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by the research lab OpenAI.
Before long he was trying to figure out how to use it to do his job faster and more efficiently, and what had been a time-consuming job became much easier.
And everyone he knew was using ChatGPT at work, he said.
But he started to wonder whether he could pull off a second job.
This year he took the risk and said the decision was all thanks to the popular chatbot.
Ben said: “That’s the only reason I got my job this year.
“ChatGPT does like 80 percent of my job if I’m being honest.”
And Ben even used it to generate cover letters to apply for jobs.
When one of Ben’s bosses, for example, now asks him to create a story for an upcoming product release, he will explain the context and provide a template to ChatGPT, which then creates an outline for him and helps fill out the sections.
Ben says the AI bot knows his title and the parameters of his duties and has become even better at understanding the context since the launch of GPT-4, the latest edition.
Ben saidd: “I can just tell it to create a story and it just does it for me, based off the context that I gave it.”
Occasionally, he even asks ChatGPT to craft responses to Slack messages from his manager.
In such cases, he requests that ChatGPT write the message in all lowercase, so that it appears more organic to the boss.
