--- title: "Grifters Using ChatGPT to Work Multiple Full-Time Jobs at Once" description: "A group calling themselves the \"overemployed\" are harnessing the power of generative AI to work multiple full-time jobs at the same time, Vice reports." date: "2023-04-12" modified: "2023-04-12" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/grifters-chatgpt-work-multiple-full-time-jobs-at-once" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "OpenAI" tags: - "ai chatbots" - "chatgpt" - "job automation" - "the digest" --- # Grifters Using ChatGPT to Work Multiple Full-Time Jobs at Once ![A group calling themselves the "overemployed" are harnessing the power of generative AI to work multiple full-time jobs at the same time, Vice reports.]() *\Image: Getty / Futurism\* ## Overemployed An emerging group — calling themselves, incredibly, the "overemployed" — are harnessing the power of generative AI to work multiple full-time jobs at the same time, [*Vice* reports](). It's perhaps an early sign that the [automation of jobs]() is about to accelerate significantly and strangely in the age of AI chatbots. "That's the only reason I got my job this year," one such worker told the publication. "ChatGPT does like 80 percent of my job if I’m being honest," adding that he even used the chatbot to [apply for jobs](). Despite the tool sometimes getting stuff wrong, that worker said he only had to make relatively "minor" adjustments to fix the copy he was delivering to his boss. In fact, he even went as far as to use ChatGPT to draft responses to Slack messages from his manager. ## AI Juggling Act Another "overemployed" worker, who also spoke to *Vice* on the condition of anonymity, said they were able to generate useful code to work three financial reporting jobs at once. And a university lecturer was able to juggle their teaching job with running a digital marketing agency and even a tech startup. While working several jobs at once is generally frowned upon, these workers don't think they're doing anything wrong. "I never could mentally comprehend why it was so taboo for me to work two salaried positions," one tech worker told *Vice*. It's a trend that, according to some of the publication's sources, could accelerate the automation of jobs at the hands of highly sophisticated algorithms capable of fulfilling a wide variety of human jobs — if employers were to ever catch on, that is. In other words, it's in their interest to keep the fact they're filling several full-time positions at once on the down low. Because the alternative could be the dissolution of a vast number of salaried positions. "It's gonna be one loom operator, as opposed to, you know, 100 weavers," one source told *Vice*. **More on generative AI and jobs:** *[These Are the Jobs Most Vulnerable to AI, Researchers Say]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()