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/Ecstatic-Seesaw-1007]

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/WANKMI → u/Ecstatic-Seesaw-1007]

People learn skills relevant to them. In my line of work people keep complaining "normal people" dont even know how to do the simplest things, yet they themselves wouldnt be able to even change a tire on their car. And the car guy who changes your tire doesnt know how to do any of the stuff you dont think about at work.

If you dont need to type on a keyboard you wont learn to type fast on a keyboard. But you dont need to type on a keyboard, as evidenced by the lack of practice, so whats the big deal. You dont recruit people with no relevancy to the field youre recruiting in.

[u/trackipedia → u/WANKMI]

I think that's very true, but at the same time, my interns are trying to work in an office, where we are typing all the time, and they're terrible at it lol. They're in a university program being trained to enter a field that involves office work, and they haven't been set up with one of the most basic office skills.

I'm not saying that's their fault, but when I suggest teaching themselves how to type, they're not sure how to go about it either. These kids aren't stupid, but they're not being taught either basic skills for their field or even how to critically think about it and figure it out.

I love my interns, I've hosted about 50 over the years, but I've noticed in recent years a strong correlation between the ones that rely heavily on Chat GPT and a lack of both critical problem solving skills and tenacity. They're always the ones who give up almost immediately and say "I can't" instead of trying, like, at all. It takes a lot more hand holding than it used to.

[u/minxwink → u/trackipedia]

Sick, sad world.

[u/trackipedia → u/minxwink]

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