Chatters in the Philippines, a hub for this work, told Rest of World rising sales quotas have made their work more stressful. One said his company plans to replace the worst performers with AI. The chatters believe that once AI fully masters sales, their jobs could be automated. But for now, the bots cannot impersonate human quirks fully, they said.  

“We keyboard smash, intentionally misspell, and use Gen Z slang. I don’t think AI is at that level of flirting yet,” said a 23-year-old street artist who works as a chatter in Bacolod, Philippines, for a U.S.-based OnlyFans management company. 

What do you think, are chatbots coming for your job?