Kolkata copywriter becomes victim of AI revolution, her pay declines by 90%: Report
New York Post on 2 August. According to the report, Sharanya Bhattacharya – once a ghostwriter and copywriter for a creative solutions agency – now earns only 10 percent of what she used to earn earlier – all thanks to ChatGPT. Before ChatGPT's introduction by the firm, she used to earn around $240 a month by picking up a few SEO-optimized articles each week.
But by late 2022, her firm started using ChatGPT and did not explain the lack of work. She suspects the introduction of ChatGPT was to cut costs, adds the report. “It has been tough since the reduction in my workload — not just for me but my family, too.
I can hardly make 10% of what I used to make," NYPost quoted the Kolkata student as saying. She used to support her and her mother, Bandana, 45, who sells sarees. Now with decreased income, the family has been forced to 'cut back' heavily on living expenses.
“We’ve had to monitor how much food we consume, and we no longer do things we used to enjoy doing like going out to eat — we can only do that once every couple of months now," said Bhattacharya. She is a postgraduate biological science student at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research. “We’ve had to focus our money on the necessities, like food and bills, to make sure we can live fine," she adds.
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