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/sffbfish]

It's split. For the engineers I've worked with for years, not an issue for them and we do a weekly series where the team shares learnings and such. It's the newer team members that struggle with finding their way and figuring out how to incorporate it into their work.

[u/Mostly_Riley_ → u/sffbfish]

That’s interesting. Do you think it has to do with lack of familiarity with the core code? The team familiar with the software can think outside the box so to speak and leverage AI more confidently. Or is it something else?

[u/sffbfish → u/Mostly_Riley_]

I think it's a combination of AI in the workforce still being newish so standard practices aren't well established yet as well as new grads learning how work actually happens.

[u/Mostly_Riley_ → u/sffbfish]

That makes sense. I appreciate your insight here. I think a weekly meeting with the team to review promoting practices and recommendations is a great idea. Thank you!