Study finds more workers using ChatGPT without telling their bosses

[PriyaWalia]

A hot potato: The chatbot craze is reaching further than anyone thought. A recent study finds that 43 percent of professionals use AI tools, including ChatGPT, for work-related tasks. The majority, nearly one-third, are doing so without letting their boss know.

In a recent survey of 11,793 Fishbowl users, almost 70 percent of workers claimed they had used AI tools for work-related tasks, reflecting the increased public interest in AI assistance and automation spurred by innovations like ChatGPT. That is a massive increase from the 27 percent of professionals who confessed to using generative AI tools for work reasons in a Fishbowl study from early January.

When asked if they had informed their managers about utilizing AI tools for work, 68 percent said they had not. Participants in the study included employees from Amazon, Bank of America, Edelman, Google, IBM, JP Morgan, McKinsey, Meta, Nike, Twitter, and thousands of others.

Moreover, Fishbowl which is a social network used by professionals to share workplace stories, noted a 107-percent increase in posts and comments on its social network mentioning ChatGPT between January 2 and January 23. Respondents claim to use ChatGPT for creating various things, including cover letters, emails, and copywriting.

Interestingly, ChatGPT is designed to simulate a human conversation and can be used to provide customer service or information. Its accuracy depends on the quality of the data fed into it. The more data it has, the more accurate it becomes.

As more professionals now use AI to help with their work, education became a sector where ChatGPT would immediately become a hot-button issue. Using the core technology, it is now easy for kids to cheat on assignments and college application essays.

A new survey by online education resource Study.com reports that one out of every four K-12 teachers has caught at least one student cheating using ChatGPT. This discovery comes with the controversy that many educators submit materials for grading through the ChatGPT AI without the consent or knowledge of students and administrators.

Undoubtedly, the influence of AI will only grow in the future. Microsoft launched a brand-new version of Bing on Tuesday that integrates ChatGPT to improve the overall user experience. Likewise, Google is getting ready to launch Bard, its rival chatbot, in the upcoming weeks.

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[VitalyT]

And how many bosses are telling their employees they are using ChatGPT?

Automation is a two-end stick, when even IT people become jobless through their own efforts. Very soon, the notion of middle class will be history, leaving just the rich and the poor.

 

[Impudicus]

Chat GPT feels like a google search reformatted into a conversation.

 

[Theinsanegamer]

Oh no, the poor bosses that treat us like garbage might be getting work done by an AI. Oh the poor babies!

The little guy gets screwed over constantly. If they can use GPT to lessen their workload and subtlety give their bosses the finger I am all for it!

 

[kiwigraeme]

And how many bosses are telling their employees they are using ChatGPT?

Automation is a two-end stick, when even IT people become jobless through their own efforts. Very soon, the notion of middle class will be history, leaving just the rich and the poor.

Interesting times ahead - full employment in many western countries at the moment , yet students in say India in great depression as few jobs
We will need humans in care business - but robots will assist greatly - can you adjust my pillow 50 times with no guilt
Will there be a universal income ? -Big business pressuring out small guys ( plus red tape )
Need 4 day working week - more theatre, sports, music , leisure - all needing workers etc

 

[Karlos95]

And how many bosses are telling their employees they are using ChatGPT?

Automation is a two-end stick, when even IT people become jobless through their own efforts. Very soon, the notion of middle class will be history, leaving just the rich and the poor.

Define which IT people.

I work in IT and I won't be jobless to AI lol

 

[toooooot]

It is all very interesting. And most definitely decrease the need of human labor. unfortunately.

 

[Thanthan]

And how many bosses are telling their employees they are using ChatGPT?

Automation is a two-end stick, when even IT people become jobless through their own efforts. Very soon, the notion of middle class will be history, leaving just the rich and the poor.

Automation has never, in the history of industry, left anyone jobless. It just creates different jobs and people have to adapt. There are about 7 billion more people working a job than at the onset of the Industrial Revolution. Not many of them ate tilling farmland manually, compared to back then. And it didn’t make the world go to hell (even though many people back then claimed it would).

Also you can’t automate thinking. Cause nothing we’ve built can think. And nothing comes close.

 

[yannus]

"The majority, nearly one-third, " You should correct that.

 

[Puiu]

It's a tool like any other tool. If you can use then use it.

 

[Theinsanegamer]

Automation has never, in the history of industry, left anyone jobless. It just creates different jobs and people have to adapt. There are about 7 billion more people working a job than at the onset of the Industrial Revolution. Not many of them ate tilling farmland manually, compared to back then. And it didn’t make the world go to hell (even though many people back then claimed it would).

This is a very ignorant statement. One only has to look to the rust belt of america to see the impacts of automation, in areas where manufacturing is still present the number of high paying jobs are far fewer and poverty is rampant. When automation impacts a community, strife is always present, not everyone can simply "adapt" at the drop of a hat. The next generation can adapt, but the already working generation is often left out in the cold.

Also you can’t automate thinking. Cause nothing we’ve built can think. And nothing comes close.

ChatGPT is already more capable of researching and writing papers better then most journalists.

 

[Thanthan]

This is a very ignorant statement. One only has to look to the rust belt of america to see the impacts of automation, in areas where manufacturing is still present the number of high paying jobs are far fewer and poverty is rampant. When automation impacts a community, strife is always present, not everyone can simply "adapt" at the drop of a hat. The next generation can adapt, but the already working generation is often left out in the cold.

ChatGPT is already more capable of researching and writing papers better then most journalists.

I didn’t say that ineffective planning and hopelessly clinging to the past can’t destroy a community, only that the problem isn’t technology.
Bad political and C-suite decisions have destroyed plenty of communities over the years. To my knowledge, auto producing regions in Germany have not had the same issues as Detroit. Thus, I can only assume that Detroit’s problem is not one of a changing technological landscape, but a changing political and socioeconomic one.

 

[BadThad]

ChatGPT is already more capable of researching and writing papers better then most journalists.

For the MSM that's the lowest bar one could set!

 

[FaTaL]

This pretty much falls under the NO SHT category

 

[rsmith222]

It is all very interesting. And most definitely decrease the need of human labor. unfortunately.

That shouldn't be unfortunate. A lot of people would be much happier if they didn't have to sell the vast majority of their lives in order to simply survive.