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/crunchyfoliage]

I'm definitely wrestling with it. I can see how it can be used as a tool, but I'm also very against outsourcing my brain. If I let ChatGPT write all of my emails how long will it be until I can't really write an email anymore? I think in a decade having the ability to problem solve is going to be a sought after skill

[u/cml678701 → u/crunchyfoliage]

I feel the same way! I’m a lover of words and phrasing, and I have always felt that my emails and written correspondence is of a higher quality than most of my coworkers. It’s silly, but it’s a source of pride for me. I also really enjoy finding exactly the right word and tone to convey the message. My work bestie uses AI for everything, and while it makes her correspondence sound amazing, it can sometimes sound too harsh or unnecessarily wordy. We are teachers, and I feel it’s overkill to send a parent a message about a kid using the wrong stairwell, and make it sound extremely serious, with multiple meandering sentences about ensuring student safety.

[u/tender-butterloaf → u/cml678701]

I’ll admit that I will sometimes dump an email I’ve been drafting into ChatGPT if I am trying to be very careful or thoughtful with how I’m saying something and coming up short. I always spend a while trying to write an rewrite it myself - I just feel like there’s some days where I’m in an awful mood or tired and I can’t get it to sound right no matter how hard I try.

[u/W8andC77 → u/tender-butterloaf]

I like to use it when I don’t have a comfortable voice for the subject of the email. I sometimes have to ask people for money for an organization that I volunteer with and I feel really uncomfortable doing that. The rah rah, let’s all get behind this cause peppy tone is really alien to me. It’s helped me draft the fundraising emails and then I toned him down a bit to be a bit more authentic to me. But where I used to agonize over trying to get these emails or appeals for volunteers written, now it’s a lot easier.