Perhaps those in tech can simply see further out. It reminds me of the advent of the internet, the lay person also didn't care, until websites and web apps were made that catered to their needs. But the people who made those sites and apps were precisely the tech people who could see beyond the lay person's idea of what the internet was. So too with AI.
Teaching kids how to communicate by, for example, writing a book report or an essay is not "busy work". I feel very lucky that I had good teachers that focused on the basics of writing. I remember at the time not liking some of it at all (I had one teacher who made us diagram sentences endlessly), but as an adult I'm really grateful I had that education.
I think saying "oh it's busy work" without proposing a solution that doesn't involve orders of magnitude more work for teachers probably should spend a a few days in close proximity to a high school teacher.
Ask the copywriter whether it takes longer to write the content themselves or to edit GPT's output to satisfy the client. If it's 10% faster to edit GPT's output, that means that we need 10% fewer copywriters.
When I show ChatGPT to a lay person they don't really care.
When I show it to a professional copywriter they say that if they submitted this content to a client they would lose the client.
I'm reminded of when my son was learning to talk and everything he said seemed brilliant and coherent to me.
To any stranger it sounded like gibberish.
I think GPT is like my son, and all tech people are like excited parents.
Maybe the kid will learn to speak like an adult, but it can't yet