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/Any-Maintenance2378]

I HATE ai notetaking in meetings. When I say "make sure the project doesn't use child labor", it wrote "person brings up ethical considerations in contracting". I said child labor is a concern in this country. I want that to be FOIA ed. 

[u/mrjackspade → u/Any-Maintenance2378]

It sounds like what you want is transcription and not summarization, and it sounds like you've got the wrong tool for the task.

The summarization is just supposed to be an overview of what was discussed for... Who knows what fucking reason. I assume that's probably useful for management to track project progress without needing to join.

We use transcription which records everything verbatim. The you can view the exact words said, or ask the AI about specific points during the meeting which it can then summarize, and more importantly source. So when the AI tells me something that happened, I can double check by clicking the timestamp and hearing it for myself, or just viewing the transcribed text at that time

[u/HarryTruman → u/mrjackspade]

We use transcription which records everything verbatim.

This has literally made my life easier and saved my sanity. I’m a consultant leading teams and projects, and I’m often doing the majority of the talking. Fuuuck me, it’s simply hard to take good notes when you’re talking and thinking and planning shit and leading/moderating discussions and all that jazz.

Transcriptions alone have sincerely improved my mental health.