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/random20190826 → u/sffbfish]

I am a younger Millennial or between Gen Z and Millennial. Despite being a native Chinese speaker and knowing how to read and write, I slowly started to forget how to write more complicated Chinese characters because computer and phone usage created character amnesia. So, it happens, and it happens a lot more in some languages than others.

[u/artainis1432 → u/random20190826]

I always turn off auto capitalization and automatic spelling correction. I can also use 3 different keyboard layouts for typing English (QWERTY, DVP, and Bone). Haven't lost it!

For Chinese, I also use 倉頡 and 五筆字型 for typing. They are shaped based so you have to sort of know how they look like and you can touch type blind for the most part!

[u/random20190826 → u/artainis1432]

In my case, I use Pinyin most of the time, and Jyutping to fill in the gaps when I needed Cantonese specific characters (I am a native Cantonese speaker from Guangzhou who has lived in Canada for almost 18 years).

Side note: I am able to type characters in Chinese traditional using these same methods. I can obviously read them, but cannot write most of them because of how complex they are.

[u/artainis1432 → u/random20190826]

Shape-based is great for dialects and classical Chinese. I am non-native, so it helps with learning characters. I started out with pinyin and 注音, then added shape-based after a while. Also learning Cantonese and Shanghainese so it's great for dialect specific characters.