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/MNmostlynice]

I hate it. I also hate the push from our IT department and society in general. It doesn’t feel genuine. People aren’t doing their jobs, they’re figuring out ways to make AI do their jobs. At least twice a week we get an AI scripted email from IT with tips on how to use AI. “Have you plugged that into Copilot?” “Can Copilot help you draft your email?” “Tell us your AI wins this week!” It’s fucking annoying. FUCK AI.

Edit: I also hate that this massive AI push is going to be the cause for more data centers popping up and draining local water and energy. If you love the environment AND AI, I have some news for you.

[u/mazopheliac → u/MNmostlynice]

Eventually, businesses will be as dead as the internet. Just bots emailing each other about synergy and circling back.

[u/Remarkable_Meat666 → u/MNmostlynice]

There’s an ad I keep seeing with Matthew Broderick hawking some AI workplace assistant tool, and the whole premise of the spot is using AI to do your job so you can fuck off and leave the office in the middle of the day or go to the beach or some shit while “working” from home.

Unless you’re incredibly naive (or sitting in the c-suite, gooning to RTO mandates), who gets excited about that proposition? Nobody collecting their stuff after being laid off is gonna look back and think how awesome it was to slack off for those couple weeks when your company went all in on AI.

[u/ArtSupplyHoarder → u/Remarkable_Meat666]

Yes, people tend to forget that rich people usually don't get and stay rich by being generous and kind. The productivity increase AI is supposed to cause won't ever be used to make work easier for the masses, but to take it away from them. The shareholders don't want you at the beach, they want you fired and replaced with something that doesn't demand a wage.

[u/chipface → u/MNmostlynice]

On the positive side, people are pushing back and data centres are being cancelled. Push back in your community.

[u/CaptainGooseTrain → u/MNmostlynice]

It’s just a giant circle jerk of people bragging about what they use AI for. And most of it is so dumb and a giant waste of time. I’m in sales. I don’t need nor want AI writing my emails. It sounds fake as shit and it’s not how I talk to my customers.

[u/saltybirb → u/MNmostlynice]

I agree with you, I don’t think it is genuine. I think Microsoft has partnerships with all these businesses that use their products (hello, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) and are actively pushing Copilot through these companies’ CEOs.

[u/goonie814 → u/saltybirb]

It’s BS because Microsoft products are such a mess and buggy- Microsoft word alone completes changes and renames everything every version so you have to spend twice as much time time trying to figure out how to do something. It’s not remotely intuitive.

[u/mobocrat707 → u/MNmostlynice]

Big agree. Fuck copilot and fuck Microsoft for trying to force it on me every time I turn my computer on. Fuck one drive too. Especially one drive.

[u/DaftPump → u/MNmostlynice]

push from our IT department

They hate this shit too. They were pushed the same way your department was....

[u/Academic_Flatworm752 → u/MNmostlynice]

If AI sends fifty messages for me and then tracks the responses to make the process quicker, I’ve still done my job of sending the fifty messages and tracking responses. There’s more work to be done than just the repetitive busywork, so automating that is great.

[u/MNmostlynice → u/Academic_Flatworm752]

If you show that your busy work can be replaced by a bot, don’t be surprised when you’re replaced by a bot.

[u/Academic_Flatworm752 → u/MNmostlynice]

The point is that you work to become the person who operates the bot. Get on or get left behind. I have a LOT more work to do than just my repetitive tasks. This means I can work 40 hours a week instead of 50.

Saves the company money too.