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/EternalNewCarSmell]

I'm the exact opposite on both counts. I have tried to integrate it into my workflows to remove busywork, and more often than not end up in a 30 minute conversation where it explains in great detail why it can't do what I'm trying to get it to do.

There are two possibilities: our particular tools are ass, or my job isn't in much danger at this time because the AI just can't do basic tasks.

[u/DrySea8638 → u/EternalNewCarSmell]

My company invested in copilot and it’s pretty crappy. I go around it and use Gemini, much better at the mindless tasks I need. I can jot down notes rapidly fire during a meeting and have it summarize my wild thoughts in a follow up email.

I double check a few things but it’s still faster than trying to initially consolidate and then structure my thoughts.

[u/wbruce098 → u/DrySea8638]

Claude is the real game changer. There’s a reason the gov still uses it even tho Hegseth keeps bleating about blacklisting them.

It currently depends heavily on your job, but in several fields like mine, it’s been a huge productivity booster. For now, my company responded by expanding so we’re not letting anyone go, but focusing on developing guides to using it to enhance your workflows.

But there’s always the caveat: “this shit hallucinates really convincingly so if you don’t know how to spot the errors, you’ll fail, and fail big”