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March 5, 2023

ChatGPT Has Already Decreased My Income Security, and Likely Yours Too

By Scott Baker

ChatGPT and other AI - emerging almost on a daily basis - is already upending people's livelihoods, forcing people to realize that >90% of what they do is unoriginal and can be done by a machine that looks only at what has already been done, works off prompts and is, at most, guided by humans, increasingly removed from the creative process. Herein, how one writer wonders how ChatGPT anonymously scraping his work will leave him an op ...

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ChatGPT and other AI - emerging almost on a daily basis - is already upending people's livelihoods, forcing people to realize that >90% of what they do is unoriginal and can be done by a machine that looks only at what has already been done, works off prompts and is, at most, guided by humans, increasingly removed from the creative process. Herein, how one writer wonders how ChatGPT anonymously scraping his work will leave him an opportunity to make a living. Some options are considered. So is a Basic Income Guarantee, for what seems like the inevitable time when there is not enough work for all the people who need an income.



Authors Website: http://newthinking.blogspot.com/

Authors Bio:

Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.

His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:

http://www.americaisnotbroke.net/

Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of articles for Common Ground's national publication, GroundSwell, and has advocated for the Georgist Land Value Tax to public and political audiences.

A complete list of his publications can be found here:

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He is also New York State Coordinator,Senior Advisor, Director and AI Chair for the Public Banking Institute

Click Here, which seeks to promote Public Banking. The PBI is chaired by another OEN blogger, Ellen Brown.
Scott has appeared on TV/Radio and in in-person Presentations to explain the principles of Georgism, Greenbacking, and State Banking. These may also be found on his personal blog: http://newthinking.blogspot.com/


Scott has a dozen progressive petitions on Change.org which may be found here:

http://chn.ge/10nUAmJ

Scott was an I.T. Manager for a major New York university for over two decades where he earned a Certificate for Frontline Leadership.


He had a video game published in Compute! Magazine: Click Here

Scott is a graduate and adjunct faculty of the Henry George School of Social Science in New York City.


Scott is a modern-day Renaissance Man with interests in economics, science and all future-forward topics.

He has been called an "adept syncretist" by Kirkus Discoveries for his novel, NeitherWorld - a two-volume opus blending Native American myth, archaeological detail, government conspiracy, with a sci-fi flair http://amzn.to/10nUoDV


Scott grew up in New York City and Pennsylvania. He graduated with honors and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University and was a member of the Psychology honor society PSI CHI.

Today he is an avid bicyclist and ride co-leader in a prominent bike advocacy organization.

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