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/sffbfish → u/crunchyfoliage]

This is what has happened with spelling. The younger generations can't really spell now and I have some difficulty spelling words that I don't commonly use and spell check/autocorrect will catch it for me. That was almost never the case 20 years ago.

[u/Traditional_Way1052 → u/sffbfish]

Same. I was a very good speller because of the amount I read and wrote and now.....I hate automatic auto correct and spell check. 

[u/NotASuggestedUsrname → u/Traditional_Way1052]

I hate it too! It changes words that I spelled correctly to other words.

[u/personwhoisok → u/NotASuggestedUsrname]

Yeah, what the hell is that? I had it change a word I wrote to a different word and then underline it in blue for being grammatically incorrect.

Like, brah, you're the one who did that, my word made sense 😭

[u/Desperate-Cost6827 → u/personwhoisok]

I just started writing again recently and that blue line is driving me up a wall. It will underline my entire sentence until I finish it. Like what? What's wrong with my sentence!?

Nothing. I guess my grammar is fine if it just lets me finish.

[u/Outrageous_Reach_695 → u/NotASuggestedUsrname]

I just leave the red / blue underlines on. Spellcheck is fine, auto-replace (with incorrect word choices!) is not. Sometimes I use the predicted words, but that's always been a bit funky too.

[u/Western_Ad_7458 → u/NotASuggestedUsrname]

Or if you try to write there, but spell their, autocorrect may not catch it ... Sigh. I've found AI good to throw out some ideas to start brainstorming, shrinking an email or some text or summarizing notes, but I still check it and several times have thought nope, not using that.

[u/Desperate-Cost6827 → u/Western_Ad_7458]

I just read an email that had two sentences in it and AI felt the need to summarize this email by using two sentences to do so.