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ChatGPT is great because you can use it to show a potential employer how good your writing is for that writing job they'll totally pay you to use ChatGPT to do.
It is and always has been racism that has stopped bad writers from getting writing jobs.
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Like, there is definitely racism in the hiring process and how writing is judged, but it comes from the fact that white people and white people alone don't have to code switch in order to be taken seriously. The problem isn't that bad writers are discriminated against it's that nonwhite people have to turn on their "white voice" in order to be recognized as good writers. Giving everyone a white robot that can functionally take their place doesn't actually make nonwhite people any more accepted. It's the same old bullshit about how anonymity means 4chan can't be racist.
I'm actually pretty sympathetic to the value of even the most sneer-worthy technologies as accessibility tools, but that has to come with an acknowledgement of the limitations of those tools and is anathema to the rot economy trying to sell them as a panacea to any problem.