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Working paper finds later profile edits distort historical AI-skill data

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A National Bureau of Economic Research working paper examining 29.4 million U.S. LinkedIn profiles found that 19.7% had retroactively changed a job already left. Additions of AI-related terms to prior roles rose more than sixfold after ChatGPT's release, the authors found. They estimate that a 2026 LinkedIn snapshot would overstate the prevalence of AI-related skills in 2022 by about 30%.
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