According to new research, the artificial intelligence software ChatGPT has the potential to replace the workers who train AI programs. The research found that ChatGPT is more accurate and consistent than the human workers, often underpaid, who perform the annotation tasks. This has a potentially large impact on the population of contract workers who currently perform the tedious work of manually labeling and filtering content for AI datasets. There have also been limitations to ChatGPT that have been found though, so it is still inconclusive if this technology will actually replace human jobs.
See "New research shows that ChatGPT may threaten the jobs of low-paid human workers who train AI programs", Chloe Xiang, VICE, March 29, 2023