A day later, I’m still thinking about that study from Upwork.
Mainly because marketing-funded research of the kind that Upwork does usually prevents these kind of results by finessing the questions.
They simply do not directly ask questions that might have answers they don’t like. That they didn’t this time means they really, really did believe that “AI” is a magic productivity tool and weren’t prepared for even the possibility that it might be harmful.
@baldur Hm. Doesn't Upwork stand to gain from discouraging LLM use, because their business model is "commissions on outsourced human labour"?
@baldur Ah, I'd missed that bit. Yeah, then your explanation seems like the more credible one.
@joepie91 That would be the rational strategic thing to do. And yet they are all-in on AI judging from their blog and have an AI bot right up top on their front page.