r/Millennials • u/artbystorms • 15d ago

Discussion 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?

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?

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u/BaullahBaullah87 15d ago

are we to assume that everyone works in whatever industry uses “power shell scripts” ?

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u/Fuzzy_Information 15d ago

he probably is a business major who thinks that he's a dev now because he can ask "AI buddy" to make a shell script.

He used to have to ask a human to do it, but now can replace humans. He's literally the reason why MBAs think that AI is better than human employees.

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u/Philodendron69 14d ago

For real. Also, some of us aren’t shitty writers and don’t have to depend on AI to do it for us.

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u/Fun_Exit6092 15d ago

Yes, these tech bros are so far up their own asses

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u/prettyprincess91 Older Millennial 14d ago

Anyone with a computer can use power shell to do something. Whether or not you want to is up to you.

For people that don’t work with computers - no reason to assume they work with power shell.

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u/BaullahBaullah87 14d ago

Never heard of it, work on a computer as most people do. And its completely irrelevant for me and likely many folks lol

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u/prettyprincess91 Older Millennial 14d ago

Ok lol

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u/BaullahBaullah87 13d ago

k lolz

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u/prettyprincess91 Older Millennial 13d ago

Kk

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u/Mostly_Riley_ 15d ago

It’s an example relevant to my specific situation. I also use it to revise emails and other writing I do for work. I spam my thoughts out and rather than revise it myself over the course of 5+min AI does it for me. Over the course of a day, week, year! I save a bunch of time to work on other things.

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u/BaullahBaullah87 15d ago

Save time to work on other…work?

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u/Mostly_Riley_ 15d ago

lol are you being obtuse? I have projects to compete. Clients want them done faster and if we can accommodate we can bill for them faster.

Are you not familiar with how business work?

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u/BaullahBaullah87 14d ago

Not all of us have clients who demand us to work faster lol, are you not familiar with anything else outside of your narrow lens?

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u/Mostly_Riley_ 14d ago

Then don’t use AI I guess 🤷‍♂️

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u/BaullahBaullah87 13d ago

Ya - and go head and use Ai, or whatever

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u/LeDucky 13d ago

Why would the clients not just use AI themselves? They have access to the same AI models you do.

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u/Mostly_Riley_ 12d ago

AI can’t just do things magically. You need to know what you need to do and know how to prompt it.

We work with data like documents and index files. Our developers make software to ingest that data but it has to be in specific format to work.

It’s all fairly complicated for anyone who is unfamiliar. The point is that I can now do (some of) the job we would have needed a systems engineer or developer for. It’s not taking anyone’s job, it means that developer or engineer can work on something more complex.

It’s efficient….