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Has AI removed a lot of remote work for people looking to work from home?

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I noticed there was a lot of job listings prior to 2020. There was always someone looking to hire people to work from their home offices. After the pandemic hit, a lot of people ended up working from home anyways. But since AI took off and became mainstream, it seems like a lot of freelance and remote work disappeared. Unless you are working for yourself, your options are few and far between. Did anyone else notice this or is it just me?

I am sure it has. I can't say I have been actively looking or tracking such things but I would have to imagine AI is replacing most low-skill work online. I think it is already getting to a point where it is replacing people who work in person in offices. I think things like data entry and file management will be the first things to go entirely.

  • 2 weeks later...
On 6/28/2026 at 10:43 AM, Ryyyan said:

I am sure it has. I can't say I have been actively looking or tracking such things but I would have to imagine AI is replacing most low-skill work online. I think it is already getting to a point where it is replacing people who work in person in offices. I think things like data entry and file management will be the first things to go entirely.

To be fair, low-skilled work online was already hard to come by. Unless people were focused on click farming and things of that nature. Like taking surveys and that. Stuff that didn't pay much of anything.

On 7/9/2026 at 9:51 AM, GZip29 said:

To be fair, low-skilled work online was already hard to come by. Unless people were focused on click farming and things of that nature. Like taking surveys and that. Stuff that didn't pay much of anything.

I think it went before AI became mainstream. I used to see a lot of these sorts of jobs. Like actual online hourly paid work as well as gigs for like blog writing but I don't see any of it anymore.

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It was probably a bit of both. A lot things changed after COVID don't forget. Tons of people were suddenly working from home and then when people were called back to work, a lot of those online/remote jobs disappeared after that.

I have seen less and less of this work and this was before COVID or AI. I started seeing it go away back in 2015. I think the market was already shifting and we were seeing changes happening. AI started long before it became a mainstream topic. People have been using AI widely since around 2012. It started becoming more common in 2016 and blew up in 2020.

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