AI technology is being misused rather than utilized for assistance as you pointed out. Despite the fact that OpenAI launched ChatGPT specifically to aid people and not to take away jobs or exclude individuals from employment we see examples of ChatGPT being abused on this forum and reports of users posting inappropriate material with its help. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stresses that AI is there to improve human capabilities and knowledge not to eliminate jobs. It eliminates repetitive tasks allowing humans to concentrate on more intricate work. To succeed it is critical to adapt and develop new skills that complement AI. In order to appropriately incorporate AI it is crucial to prioritize worker welfare and ethical conduct inclusivity should be promoted and opportunities for retraining should be provided. Although the bot, ChatGPT, has exhibited unethical behaviors OpenAI seeks to provide support rather than replace jobs. Instances of misapplication demonstrate the necessity for responsible usage.
Even if it was being used for assistance, sometimes it overdelivers and some startup business surely used ChatGPT more than just hiring developers. Just because it cannot do anything that a developer can't do does not mean it can't still improve in the upcoming years.
Although to be fair, just like I mentioned in the previous reply here, it could still be open to more jobs since dealing with AI let alone ChatGPT isn't just typing in the chat simply. There are those such things as prompt engineering and you might still need to know on how to deal with an AI. That would mean that it might still be open to more opportunity/jobs.
I can still recall back in the days when I try to automate filling up Excel sheets using Selenium with Python language.
We are far from the perfect AI technology, chatGPT is just an infant and its only for text but already there are many AI has been developed for other things too. If you ask the AI will take over jobs in future then yes definitely there will be no need for drivers when auto pilot cars and trucks filled in the roads and also I read many jobs related to medicine field maybe replaced by AI for sure.
However there will always be opportunity for jobs but the only thing the field will keep changing over time.
Someone still has to maintain the software anyway. Maybe the scary part would be if AI would fix itself. There will always be a bug in a software and someone still has to fix those recurring bugs and maintain it.