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I Lost My Content Job to AI.
How I found my silver-lining
I used AI a few years before ChatGPT was launched. It was during COVID-19, and I had to pause my plans for higher studies and was working in content creation and management roles. In 2020, there was some murmur about AI in the startup ecosystem, and a few independent websites had launched their generative-AI tools.
I had tried out a few writing chatbots and was convinced my content jobs were in no way at risk. The generated output was juvenile and felt like a five-year-old’s assignment. The speed of the output was impressive, but the poor quality made it impossible to use professionally.
Little did I know what was about to come in 2022.
ChatGPT launched in November 2022, and a few months later, I lost my content management job. Later, I lost my content writing gig a few months after Google Gemini launched in December 2023. My jobs were heavily dependent on Search Engine Optimization, which was completely disrupted by AI Chatbots and no one saw it coming!
It was a gut-wrenching and humbling experience. It felt like the end of the world, but I was wrong.
It was a new beginning disguised as a career apocalypse.
Let me explain.
