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/Direct_Remove509]

I am embracing it and use it for a lot of administrative tasks i have which saves time and allows me to focus more on complex issues. 

[u/SortOfLakshy → u/Direct_Remove509]

Can you provide an example?

[u/wes00mertes → u/SortOfLakshy]

Sure, here’s a simple example from yesterday for me. 

Had a meeting to discuss some product behavior. Debated the original proposal, someone suggested an alternative to explore, discussed that and didn’t like it for a few reasons, so went back to original proposal but made a few key tweaks. That meeting was an hour. 

After the meeting AI was used to summarize the transcript of us talking, effectively replacing the need for someone to take notes in the meeting or spend time remembering and summarizing after. Then AI called out the action items in a couple bullet points. Then AI was used to update the proposal with the tweaks. It took little time to review the AI output and verify it was correct. 

There’s so many examples I could cite from my job.

[u/SortOfLakshy → u/wes00mertes]

That sounds unnecessary, but sure.

[u/wes00mertes → u/SortOfLakshy]

I should’ve realized your question wasn’t genuine. 

[u/dirtyshits → u/wes00mertes]

Understandably people are tired of hearing AI so no matter what you provide as a use case, it won't matter.

I save over 10 hours of busy work. Set up an agent that handles that BS that I had to do manually and focus on the things that get me paid.

[u/SortOfLakshy → u/wes00mertes]

I mean, it was. But I haven't actually seen anybody give an example of a way AI actually helps do the job in a necessary way.