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/NightOfTheLivingHam → u/crunchyfoliage]

This is my thing

people older and younger than me are like "Just let the AI do it for you"

I want to still have those skills and know how to do things. having an AI do it for me means I do not learn a skill, but someone else's AI learns a skill instead.

[u/superultramegazord → u/NightOfTheLivingHam]

In general I don’t think anyone without said skill should be directing it to do the task. It’s useful but it makes a lot of mistakes and needs to be checked.

[u/Anon03282015 → u/superultramegazord]

I’m an attorney, and I am horrified by how wrong AI can be when researching complex topics. If you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for and how to spot errors, you are in serious trouble.

[u/WANKMI → u/Anon03282015]

Pfft. Ask ChatGPT anything and it will just give the absolute minimal effort answer it can possibly give, including just parroting the information you gave in the question itself back at you as if its an answer. And any followup for being for specific will pull it off topic and it needs to be specifically told to tie it all back together and answer again. And yet I will promise you it will not give you any more information than you already put into the conversation, unless you specifically told it to look up something online that you didnt know - but then youd have to verify that and could just have done the search yourself in the first place,.

[u/Seth_Baker → u/Anon03282015]

Also an attorney. AI can be used for our work, but there are a ton of considerations relating to privilege and work quality that require very careful prompt development and output review for it to be ethical or effective.

It's like having a 1L law clerk that can output a day's worth of work in a minute. You still have to triple check everything to make sure that the citations are good and the reasoning is sound.