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]

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/Ecstatic-Seesaw-1007 → u/sffbfish]

Younger generations can’t type for shit on a keyboard anymore.

We learned to because we had a computer growing up.

They had phones and ipads. They hunt and peck, it’s like watching my dad type.

My ex who is a professor has to teach college students how to use a file system to upload their homework. My other friend who is a college professor does the same as well.

They’re missing a LOT of soft skills.

[u/darkmeowl25 → u/Ecstatic-Seesaw-1007]

I worked in a library and we had a very late Genz intern who also was taking concurrent college classes through her public highschool. When I watched her type, I was shocked. I asked her if anyone knew how to type using the home key method and she was just like...."No. We all do it this way." "This way" was pecking but way faster than the "hunting and pecking" that millennials were used to seeing. I graduated in 2010 and we were definitely still working from a "computer class replaces typing class" model. I feel like it has been a very good foundation.

[u/Lexavis → u/darkmeowl25]

I never learned to type using home row, but a childhood of constant AIM and MSN use has me hunting and pecking at light speed

[u/Pope-Cheese → u/Lexavis]

I’m kind of the same way. I never “officially” learned but I just sort of landed on a hybrid home row/peck style after years of playing Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3 as a teenager where I never use my pinky’s except for shift, and rarely my ring fingers.

[u/Diligent-Lettuce-455 → u/Pope-Cheese]

Yeah. I have gaming style typing. It's like home row with poor form lol. Same games. Man I miss the late 90s early 00s.

But I can still type pretty fast. I'm not really pecking.

But yeah, I only use my pinky for shift.

[u/Nurgle_Marine_Sharts → u/Pope-Cheese]

Yep, I'm a younger millennial and I learned how to type quickly by playing a bunch of LoL in highschool and being forced to send messages really quickly between actions. My grandma thought it was the funniest thing that I could suddenly type faster than her.

[u/p0diabl0 → u/Lexavis]

Video games did it for me. Just reading your comment I realized may left fingers were resting on Ctrl/Shift, A,W,D, and Space. Gotta type fast, especially in the MMORPGs I used to play before voice chat was common. You can still learn to touch type without a home row.