My job keeps pushing AI on us, as in we just had a session on how to use Chat GPT for work.
The guy running it called it Chatty G. It was horrible.
I work in fundraising for a journalism school. I hate it so much and it feels insane to tell employees to use Chat GPT for their work when all the students are receiving disciplinary action for it.
I also genuinely think it’s making people lazy af.
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This sounds awful. And hypocritical of the school.
I wonder if the legal representation/HR of the school is aware of this change on operations and if they had time to vet it.
My manager mentioned that the higher ups have been training her on how to use AI so it’s not in my lap but it’s on my company’s radar.
Yes. I got told today to just have AI create an email. A fucking email. I have been emailing in a corporate setting for over a decade. Why would I need AI for a email now
ChatGPT is a super useful tool even for journalists. Not sure how your employer told you to use it (I certainly wouldn’t condone it for full-on writing pieces) but it can definitely help journalists do their job better by fast tracking research, brainstorming, playing the skeptic, etc.
Yes, and I hate it so very much. To push to get people to think less (and the amount of people happily leaning in) while the political and social tides are shifting the way they are is terrifying.
Yes, but most of it makes sense. There’s a lot of data work that we do (modeling, reporting, etc) where it’s useful if not essential. But it is purpose-built AI, not stuff like LLMs/GPT.
We have had sessions on LLMs/GPT though, mostly about how they work and what they are[n’t] good at and what we can[‘t] use them for at work. It was smart of them to get ahead of the trend and set our internal policies about it.
I work as an art director/graphic tee designer for a licensed graphic apparel company that is owned by a equity group which is owned by a billionaire – so of course they are! Its not often forced on me, individually, but there’s this prevailing idea across, well judging from the comments, pretty much every corporate/desk job on the planet that if they dont find SOMEWAY to use they will be LEFT BEHIND and that will just be their ruination. Really weird gross capitalistic FOMO. Which comes across as very much like a bunch of people who don’t really know what they’re doing pretending that they do and talking about it a lot. It seems to me though what people think it can do for them and what it can actually do that’s useful has a pretty wide gap.
There are ways its being used around here that aren’t art or chat gpt that do seem useful for some teams – anything where lots and lots of data needs to be collected or organized. There are artists that use it (for generic, not licensed, graphics, usually) – I’ve seen shutterstock’s and midjourney’s mostly, and frankly, I can always tell. It has that gross sheen. And I am the type who gives a toot about the customers perception of our product – I would rather think that the prevailing thought in culture is that ai generated slop is that, and is low effort, grifty, and ugly, and that, since we’re representing massive entertainment brands and don’t want to be perceived as that, we should avoid it. I like to think most people are feel this way and not just, will buy whatever dumb tee they see on temu.
One way its being used is ai models to mock up tees (my dept is print on demand) and I like to position myself as the person who is critical about how this looks, how the customer will perceive it. My only goal with interacting with ai is to recognize it.
But I’m also someone who like never got rid of CDs, still has a Zune, still has a desktop computer with a disc drive, hates e-waste, hates the way our society mocks any kind of tech that isn’t brand spankin new and acts like all tech is ‘good’ and ‘progress’ / over values it over all other aspects of culture; I have no issue with feeling left behind or ‘old’ (hate how much people fret about that too) if I don’t ever ever ever use chat gpt.
Yes, to the point where I’m low-key forgetting my efficient spreadsheet formulas, and replacing sections with verbose formulas that only an AI can update or maintain
Yep. I’m in marketing and everyone is just fine with us churning out slop copy. I refuse to use it, which oddly annoys management.
Oh yeah. “Have it make a funny Out of Office for you lol”.
I loathe AI in my industry. Thankfully I’m lucky my department has a firm “fuck no to AI” policy for ethical reasons (creative field) and we’ve gotten no pushback from our higher ups which has been really nice.
But that sucks big time OP. Hopefully you aren’t being mandated to use it!
I don’t see an issue with using AI to brainstorm, hash out ideas or whatever. I think schools should be introducing these tools, thoughtfully, within the curriculum. Not just blindly using them but using them to curate or iterate, checking and verifying, but at a much faster rate.
Omg I literally almost posted this earlier today. I just feel a bit gaslit by all the claims it will save time and just can’t figure out how, except in some very narrow cases.
“CHATTY G” ☠️
I work in higher ed and, yes, it’s being jammed down our throats. I have come to appreciate it for certain things, like reading the policy manual and pointing out missing areas or coming up with slide titles for a presentation. I’m not about to use it for therapy or writing something FOR me, though.
I recently saw an IT person who said that the best way to describe the misunderstanding around AI is that people think AI is trained to give them “the answer,” when I’m fact AI is trained to give them something that sounds like the answer. AI isn’t going to be able to make and organize constellations of thought the way my brain can, and I’m not about to give away my intellectual property to try to make it so.
Yep. High school teacher and our district is pushing both ChatGPTand MagicSchool, both of which produce very impressive-sounding trash. They’re asking us to teach students to use it “thoughtfully” — bitch have you met a teenager? Their brains are still developing and the whole point of school is to help them build their own skills (brainstorming, organizing, and refining are in fact skills that should be acquired). I teach math though — kids who “just use it to help better understand” are falling hard and realizing that the old-fashioned approach of hard work and productive struggle are far more effective in the long run.
Yes, they want us to use copilot to make our emails more friendly. But we have to remove all client data and proprietary info before running it through the AI first before we add I back in. So basically do the job twice. I’m taking the “don’t but say I did” route and just giving it another once over.
I used it once, to figure out regex for a sed script. I only need to make a bash script once a year. It saved me probably two hours on stack overflow.
I felt kinda gross for giving in to AI.
A co-worker wants to use it as an assistant to do entry level work. I’m strongly morally opposed. The job market and economy are already rough, and now AI is taking the junior roles. How are people supposed to get experience to start their careers?
Yup, old job was forcing everyone to use an in-house version of ChatGPT basically. Had to take compliance trainings and everything since it was corporate. I switched to a new job that does govt contracting and we’re not allowed to use AI coding agents, so that’s nice.