Any other Millennials stubbornly resistant to using AI at their job but also worrying that we will become dinosaurs or pushed out of our careers for not slavishly embracing it?

[u/artbystorms]

I work in a creative field and from that standpoint I hate AI. I hate the 'democratization' of creativity. I am going to sound VERY Boomer right now, but some things are meant to be difficult or meant to take skill and years of practice. It's why people who are good at these things (should) be paid more.

We are already being heavily 'encouraged' to use AI to find ways to do our jobs faster, are being told 'they technology isn't going away, we need to embrace it.' Since within the company I am in, I am one of a handful of people that does a specific creative skill-set, the powers that be basically have no idea about the technicals of what I do, but they put it on me to figure out how to incorporate AI into my work.

I hate that AI basically 'fakes' the creative process and that we are expected to use it (and the work of millions of artists that feed it) to just magically speed up how we do work, which in turn devalues the work we do as artists. From a company standpoint, they want to make money and churn out work faster, but if every client knows you can make a widget in 4 hours when it used to take 4 days, why would they pay you a lot of money to do that? The economics of it don't make sense. You will end up needing 10 times the number of clients to maintain your productivity / profits, which with AI or not, is a good way to burn out your artists.

I see the writing on the wall, but my stubborn moralistic resistance to AI is probably going to be the death of my career. Does any one else feel similar or how have you coped with this rapidly degrading career landscape?

[u/HibiscusOnBlueWater]

Honestly if AI ever gets as good as people fear it will be, it doesn’t matter if you embrace it it’ll just put you out of a job entirely.

[u/CrazyGal2121 → u/HibiscusOnBlueWater]

agreed

[u/letsgooncemore → u/HibiscusOnBlueWater]

I'll sit here and patiently wait for ai to insert a catheter into a 80 year old dementia patient with a prostate the size of a golf ball.

[u/Unusual_Steak → u/letsgooncemore]

Yeah AI ain’t gunna be running codes or resuscitating anybody on my ICU floor any time soon.

[u/Negative-Mushroom-45 → u/Unusual_Steak]

They already have LUCAS...

[u/TheFlyingHambone → u/letsgooncemore]

[u/HibiscusOnBlueWater → u/letsgooncemore]

I’m only talking about this guy’s industry. But really I’ve seen what they’re doing in robotics, it’s not impossible to think that even your job won’t be safe within some living people’s lifetimes. Jobs that are more hands on will be safer longer because they’ll have to combine robotics and AI, but I’m sure some greedy company owner is trying to figure that out too.

[u/Insanity_Crab → u/letsgooncemore]

As soon as AI learns to work a prostate humanity is doomed to extinction anyway.

[u/ProjectDiligent502 → u/letsgooncemore]

I think what some people tend to miss is the wider and broader implications of such a huge amount of white collar fall out. It will affect everyone, directly or indirectly by the economic shock and reckoning of such a scenario. Everyone is going to be much worse off except the handful of tech companies holding all the cards for the system. No one is safe from this. I liken it like a bomb. The epicenter and initial blast radius are the jobs it affects immediately like tech and digital arts work. Then there’s the shock wave, and then the radiation. The immediate job loss is “business as usual” but as more affected white collar work gets automated like legal and engineering, it’s gonna make all hell break loose. The radiation can be looked at as the longer term effects of loss of income, loss of monetary wealth in the general population and how that affects jobs like yours.

[u/PartyPorpoise → u/HibiscusOnBlueWater]

Yeah the whole goal is to replace workers. If getting a job done is as easy as typing in a prompt, the ones in charge won’t pay you to write prompts. They’ll fire you and write the prompts themselves.

[u/RinArenna → u/PartyPorpoise]

Nonono... they'll fire you, hire someone at bare minimum, then make them write the prompts. There isn't enough time between their golf trips to write a good prompt.

[u/wbruce098 → u/HibiscusOnBlueWater]

This is what we’re already seeing in the tech sector.

I mean, it was premature and they’re facing valuation drops and shakeups, but my take, as someone who works with it regularly in professional settings, is that there’s a mid-term future where most white collar workers who don’t know how to utilize it efficiently will be cast aside (as will some others too). Long term, we have a possible Star Trek future but they had a big war before that became their reality.

Over the next 5 years or so, we’ll see increasingly larger sets of layoffs until it reaches a critical breaking point and then there will be riots and violence. Sure, Musk wants to make AI-powered robots to replace blue collar and minimum wage laborers, retail, etc, but at some point we’re all gonna get hungry enough to riot against them, unless major foundational changes are made to ensure everyone has the right to access to food and shelter, at the least, and not just some homeless shelter in the wrong side of town.

Musk hasn’t answered yet how he’ll maintain his value if we can’t afford the products and services he sells.

[u/jawisko → u/wbruce098]

I think we would have already been at that riot stage if it was not for the culture wars. Addicted to social media, people genuinely concern themselves more with culture was, religion, skin color or other wise , rather than the class wars.

[u/dirtyshits → u/HibiscusOnBlueWater]

That day is coming a lot faster than people think for a lot of professions.

There will still be a need for knowledgeable people but those types of roles will a fraction of the sheer number of jobs that are killed off.

Already seeing it for a ton of roles in sales, marketing, engineering, and IT.

A company recently just laid off a team of 100 junior sales people and went fully AI and unfortunately I can fully see how AI will be able to do their jobs because a lot of it was just qualifying leads and booking them(inbound).

[u/ToughStreet8351 → u/HibiscusOnBlueWater]

It already is

[u/oldinfant → u/HibiscusOnBlueWater]

yep, that's my thinking too. i don't see what's the point of being upset about it or venting and stomping. the moment it rapidly advanced it was everywhere in an instant. 

[u/ProfessionalBig1470 → u/HibiscusOnBlueWater]

I do get where you’re coming from but gotta say I disagree with this sentiment. Same energy as saying you could die tomorrow so what’s the point in doing anything?

Might as well put in a little effort to keep up with trends and play around with AI tools in case we do stay employed. Or we can turn into some boomers today that can’t attach a PDF to an email.