Employees want to work with good tools and do interesting work. I'm at a small startup and get to spend a lot of my time working with AI - figuring out how we can use it internally, working out where we can integrate it into our product and using it myself to prototype things and automate some of our business processes.

I am hugely fascinated and impressed by AI, and the fact that my work is paying me to spend time using this awesome tool in a real world context is suuuuuuuper good for my job satisfaction.

Because many people will get away with it. Their paycheck is not contingent on not using ChatGPT, because their employer won't find out.

Some people want their work to be high quality and/or done quicker. If there are tools to facilitate that, some people will be interested.

Depends. If suddenly my company said I was going to work on some deadend legacy crap for the next 5 years, I'm going to nope out ASAP.

If you get fired/quit and any other job you're looking at is going to have you interacting with new languages or AI workflows or something like that you have to assess what value you're losing by working for that company and the risks associated with it.

> I'm employed in order to receive a paycheck. If receiving my paycheck is contingent on me not using ChatGPT, then so be it, what do I care?

I can be employed to receive a paycheck by employers that give me freedom or employers that take away useful tools.

Why do I stick with the employer that gives me less freedom? Not to mention, getting a new job almost always drastically increases the size of said paycheck.