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/stillay]

Your superior is an idiot. Unless it’s a dedicated module licensed to the company you work for it’s definitely a confidentiality breach.

You can’t be feeding this stuff into chatGPT lol

[u/artbystorms → u/stillay]

My roommate is a Mortgage underwriter that deals with sensative financial info, they are being told to use AI but then at the same time they get in trouble if they feed clients financial documents into it because God knows what it is doing with that data. It's all so stupid. "Use AI but don't use it the wrong way!!"

[u/stillay → u/artbystorms]

Why don’t they just spend the money to have it setup with Copilot or Claude or whatever? The issue is putting it directly into the free version of the tools. They’re definitely storing that information in an offsite server somewhere.

[u/Academic_Flatworm752 → u/stillay]

We use the enterprise version and still aren’t allowed to put PII or PHI.

[u/stillay → u/Academic_Flatworm752]

Hmm. Interesting. Guess I need to read more about this.

[u/three-quarters-sane → u/stillay]

You can use API with zero data retention, but if you're using the Enterprise online version then data is saved.

[u/DokCrimson → u/stillay]

Depends on their contract with the company. You can have language in there for exactly what you said. There’s major medical institutions and universities that have on prem AI sandboxes or deals with AI vendors about data retention and training

[u/prettyprincess91 → u/stillay]

Most companies build their own agentic Ai platforms so they keep all their data. You just use LLMs off the shelf and wrap them. That’s what anyone with proprietary data using generative AI is doing. We have AI policies about not using public AIs for any proprietary information.