Whenever I hear about such a thing (people doing legacy system data extraction manually) I wonder if in every case someone got the estimate for the "proper" solution and just decided a bunch of people typing is cheaper?
Integrating things like Chatgpt will still require people who know what they are doing to look at it, and I wouldn't be surprised if the first advice they give is "don't use chatgpt for it".
If the market forces work as they’re supposed to (not a given anymore), then corporations that adopt better tech will see better profits through lower expenses. And then the laggards will have to adapt or die.
Also remember that this is essentially v1 of the software- the Windows 95 of this adoption cycle
Integrating things like Chatgpt will still require people who know what they are doing to look at it, and I wouldn't be surprised if the first advice they give is "don't use chatgpt for it".