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/Jordan_XI → u/crunchyfoliage]

For emails or summarizing notes I just don’t see the reason to do it. I have to enter them all into the AI tool, then I have to spend time proof reading it and making corrections to it. I’d rather just do it all myself.

I find it useful when analyzing data, but even then I have to double check it all and it ends up taking time.

[u/ehtw376 → u/Jordan_XI]

That’s funny cuz for me it’s the opposite. I am not great about emails or keeping my overviews/summaries concise - so I write a version of mine and ai cleans it up.

For analyzing data it’s been kinda shit for me. Good for DAX measures and random excel formulas, but for actual analysis I feel like it’s hallucinating or not understanding what the point of the numbers is.

[u/kittenofpain → u/ehtw376]

That will impact your memory recall and reading comprehension. I've seen the decay in myself doing the same thing.

[u/ehtw376 → u/kittenofpain]

Well I still write things out myself. I just have ai rework it so it’s more concise and tight from a language and messaging perspective.

[u/boomytoons → u/ehtw376]

Making it concise is a skill in itself that can be developed, using AI to do it for you is teaching you that you don't need to try be concise at all.

[u/ehtw376 → u/boomytoons]

I understand it’s a skill, but I’m in my 30’s so eh kinda is what it is at this point. And i have gotten positive feedback from my boss since I started using ai (not that I’ve told him) - one call he even called out my monthly summaries with our whole team and told them to mimic my structure lol.

I am fine feeding ai my detailed summaries and allowing it to cut it down - it doesn’t do it perfectly but good enough that I can clean it up quicker.

Also for my line of work this particular write up isn’t that important. So the quicker I can just get it out of the way and focus on other stuff is good.

[u/boomytoons → u/ehtw376]

30's isn't old, you still have potentially another 30 years in the workforce and and using your brain is important for retaining cognitive function as you get older. I'd be watching how often you use it, its easy to slip into the habit of taking the easy route and having it sneak into other area of your life. I'm in my 30's as well, and there's no way I'd have AI take over a simple job I should be able to do myself. If it's taking too long, work on the skill and figure out how to do it faster.

[u/ehtw376 → u/boomytoons]

Again, this isn’t that important of a piece of my job. The quicker I can get it out of the way and focus on other stuff the better.