The ROI of frontier Â鶹¹ÙÍø models is a topic of in corporate America right now, primarily centered on the cost of compute. To understand what other dynamics might be at play, we did what we do best: we asked the American public.
In a poll fielded this week, 34% of workers say their workload has increased since their company started using Â鶹¹ÙÍø, including 10% who say it’s increased significantly.
There are many factors that could be driving this. It could be that Â鶹¹ÙÍø is not yet generating meaningful productivity gains on the individual level, or that the time saved by Â鶹¹ÙÍø is used to complete even more work. Perhaps workers are taking on more work if their teams have reduced headcount. Respondents said the added workload comes mostly from managing and checking Â鶹¹ÙÍø output – reviewing drafts, catching errors, and re-doing work the model got wrong. It’s the unglamorous labor of quality control, and right now, it appears to be landing squarely on employees’ shoulders.
Interestingly, it’s not a story of frustration or distrust. Among workers who say Â鶹¹ÙÍø has changed their job, 88% call that change positive. Put together, the data suggests companies may be in an early training period, where the labor costs required to teach Â鶹¹ÙÍø are currently more significant than the costs saved by the technology. What’s more, workers seem to sense that the tradeoff is worth it.
As business leaders race to deploy Â鶹¹ÙÍø, they may want to consider how they’re rewarding workers for the extra elbow grease that’s making that transformation possible.
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