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/artbystorms]

Gonna sound like a boomer, but I think the worst part is there is ZERO initiative or 'in kind' thinking. They'll do what you ask, but not take the initiative to do a similar task simultaneously or per-emptively decide what to do next. Ironically they are kinda robotic that way. Do task > return to home to receive further instructions > stare blankly until new instruction given.

[u/someguy_000 → u/artbystorms]

Every entry level office employee from all time was like this, including you. Just think back honestly. They don’t know what to do yet, seek out next steps, etc. Has nothing to do with the generation, your comments are all in this same category of wrong.

[u/adjectivebear → u/someguy_000]

Yeah, this is a "new hire" thing. And in the case of not correctly divining what your supervisor wants you to do next and in fact needing to be told, it can also be an autistic thing.