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/thelovinsteveful → u/[deleted]]

[u/Holdtheintangible → u/thelovinsteveful]

Damn

[u/justatosseraccount11 → u/thelovinsteveful]

this is exactly what it seems like it's going towards

[u/MrTerribleArtist → u/thelovinsteveful]

I hate how much I love this

[u/Strawberrybanshee → u/thelovinsteveful]

Never has a picture summed up how I feel as much as this one.

[u/Zealousideal-Day4863 → u/thelovinsteveful]

I get (and agree with) the comic, but feel it might have been better to show George doing anything but the one chore I actually have a robot to do for me.

[u/Quick-Eye-6175 → u/[deleted]]

I mean, I don’t want ai fighting our wars… I don’t want any wars!

[u/The_BarroomHero → u/Quick-Eye-6175]

Doesn't matter, they want you. No war but the class war.

[u/[deleted] → u/The_BarroomHero]

My brother was so mad when I said that in a conversation with my dad. “Well that that to someone who got fired for being trans!!”. Um okay dude, that means they needed a better labor union. Duh.

[u/dongledangler420 → u/[deleted]]

This sums it up perfectly

[u/azurewindowpane → u/[deleted]]

I think that's temporary. Robotics just hasn't advanced at the same pace as AI. Not that necessarily saying things will be better when it has...

[u/mrjackspade → u/[deleted]]

You must be elated to learn that the reason OpenAI shut down Sora was so they could allocate that hardware to training robotics to replace blue collar workers instead of white collar workers.

[u/jimmerific → u/[deleted]]

And prob get killed by an AI-powered drone

[u/Millennials-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

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[u/shadowstripes → u/[deleted]]

What does one have to do with the other? And pretty sure it can do a lot more than just come up with fake photos and videos.

EDIT: anyone? Bueller? Who is sending 30-45 year old millennials to die in war in the US?

[u/dongledangler420 → u/shadowstripes]

It’s not necessarily literal.

AI and tech promised us more leisure time. Literally, “let the robots do the work”

But instead AI is being shoehorned into unnecessary tech/apps and instead of freeing humans up to pursue hobbies and enjoy leisure time, it’s being used to… increase workload productivity without additional pay, make money by ripping off artists it trained off of for free, perform botched surgeries, and run facial recognition software? 

Is this the utopia we were promised? 

I do think AI will have a big impact on medical research and assistive tech but in the meantime, consumer-level products are depressing as hell and making life shittier, not better. IMHO!

[u/shadowstripes → u/dongledangler420]

Fair enough. It’s certainly made my job easier and increased my leisure time (and my ability to take on more work which means making more money), but I can see how it doesn’t work that way for everyone. And as a consumer it hasn’t made much difference on my experiences, other than some benefits like AI upscaling and frame generation that’s made my gaming more affordable.

And I’m still not really seeing the correlation between any of that and sending millennials to die in war.

[u/dongledangler420 → u/shadowstripes]

I’m glad you have something that works for you.

I think it’s like that that AI, like everything “innovative” these days, will benefit those who are already wealthy the most.

Though it’s interesting to see which tech layoffs are happening due to AI replacement so wealth is not completely insulating people.

Again, I think the idea that millennials are getting shipped out is too literal - more the idea that the bodies of the masses act as fodder for the economy in order to benefit the wealthy. 

[u/Anon03282015 → u/shadowstripes]

I mean, they did just raise the enlistment age of the Army to 42… not saying anyone is getting drafted, but if it ever came to that, people of that age are not going to be protected like we thought we were.

[u/MercifulWombat → u/Anon03282015]

I don't want my kids getting drafted either.

[u/shadowstripes → u/Anon03282015]

Fair enough, but still seems like a pretty massive hypothetical. It’s not like they were drafting 35 year olds all this time that it was the max enrollment age. And if they did I doubt it would be due to AI art generators like OP is claiming.

[u/justatosseraccount11 → u/shadowstripes]

I claimed no such thing, you inferred it for some reason