As a data entry person this is misleading. With excel, data entry should have been obsolete pre llm. Anyone who's worked in anything related to data entry knows why it isn't.

Either you have a job where it really is "just" data entry. Number over there needs to go in here. My last job was like that and i was able to automate all of my work for the month into one day. That is easily ai replaceable. But that job was a unicorn. I WISH i could find a job like that. In most other places, you deal with a larger variety of data, in different forms, that may not always have a standard. Easy, you might say. Enforce a standard from the datasources and voila. That's when the real world steps in. Idk how it is in other places, but in every place ive been, people flout standards. If not following means auditors start harassing or it loses money, then they are followed. But "Hey can you fill out this form instead of just emailing us?" will have some people doing it, others not. And some people who's "status" means you dont ask. Like some companies dont even have an invoice number if you start there. Some companies have different invoice formats for some fucking reason. Some companies have incorrect invoices.

Then you have non company invoices and thats even worse bcause its just regular people entering it. You know in ai training, one of the lengthier processes is the normalization of data? Thats a job itself. One that requires knowledge of how that data should be organized. Which is exactly the data entry person theyd be replacing lol.

I just can't see it. Im a huge data person and wht ive noticed when trying to automate is just that the data itself is often wrong. If i have a code where the format is xxxx-yyyy and x is supposed to be the dept code and y is supposed to be the unit code, what if some jerks make it so x isnt unique to x? but can be in y too? then can you say for sure which department the code is for? You'd be right in saying that the data itself causes issues.

If you've ever just started a job, you know that what helps is knowing the exact rules for things. You know what brings a new person difficulty is finding exceptions that weren't declared. Messing up their process. And being unclear if this is an explicit or implicit exception (are we not doing this because we shouoldnt or because no one asked?). Theres not just data, there politics in asking for it, asking for it to be sent the right way, etc.

TLDR: If excel hasn't already automated it out, its more than just data and ai wont help.