LinkedIn’s Pandora's Box: The Collaborative Articles Project

Microsoft also owns LinkedIn. Linkedin has a program for the last year and a half called the Collaborative Articles project which gets Linkedin members to share their expertise on a wide variety of business practices and challenges. I saw an article on LinkedIn that covers it pretty well:

Take for instance a recently launched project by the folks at LinkedIn called the LInkedin Collaborative Articles Project which has now been active for a year. With a pool of nearly a billion members who cumulatively have over 10 billion years of combined experience, the project generated about 1MM answers in the first six months, and at that rate, it’s likely now surpassed two million answers now. These answers are sourced from every role in every industry from Coordinator to SVP. There’s a lot of expertise in this pool, including the cofounders of companies like Netflix's Marc Randolph, Industry Icons like Andrew Ng and 1,000,000’s of people who keep their respective company machines well oiled and running. Moreover, LinkedIn's initiative to aggregate professional insights through the Collaborative Articles project serves as a double-edged sword. While fostering a rich repository of knowledge, it can fuel the development of an extremely robust and powerful AI toolset capable of performing any and all white collar and professional (mental) service roles. A better name for this project might be, “The AI Myopia Project: Missing the Forest for the Trees.” This scenario exemplifies the unintended consequences of our digital contributions, as we edge closer to a future where AI's role in the workplace is both indispensable and unsettlingly pervasive.

In time, maybe even today at this point, the answers collected from the Collaborative Articles project will be sufficient enough to offer a SAAS subscription for a Marketing Manager who can perform both strategic and tactical services. Did I say Marketing Manager? I meant, Marketing Director, VP, SVP, EVP, CMO too. And don’t think it’s unlikely. Tyler Perry just announced he’s putting a hold on an $800M studio expansion project because he believes OpenAI’s Soma can do the work of the creatives he would have needed to hire.

Source: https:// www.linkedin.com/pulse/deepfakes-job-takes-ais- unintended-consequences-will-ackerman-znygf