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To me, this post speaks about AI from the perspective of the average employer prioritizing their concern for productivity and efficiency. While improvement is a valid goal, I think a valuable lesson could be learned from exploring the perspective of the team members who are hesitant to incorporate AI into their work, and some of the reasons that might be.
The inner workings of AI are not covered as widely as they should be, given that it is currently negatively impacting millions around the world. For AI to function and evolve, corporations like Meta construct data centers around the US utilizing water for cooling. While most have heard how AI uses water and find it a worthwhile investment, they oftentimes aren’t aware that this technology also affects the quality of the water for the surrounding area. Articles and reports addressing this problem are easily accessible but sparsely acknowledged, reporting how millions of families across the United States have lost access to clean water, for drinking, showering, and cleaning, shortly after new data centers were built in their neighborhood.
(https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o)
For AI to be able to create accurate outputs, it must be trained using example material that it learns to replicate. When an AI is trained, the material it is learning from is rarely used with permission, which is why AI-generated images and art are considered unethical. It profits from human creation without any compensation and renders human creativity obsolete by being able to transform it into its own unoriginal material, therefore stealing people’s work and future. (https://juliabausenhardt.com/how-ai-is-stealing-your-art/)
While I understand that increased efficiency and productivity are worth pursuing, I don't think it is worth harming others. Not everyone is aware of these ongoing problems, so I am sharing this purely with the intent of education.
Streaming, social media, cloud software, and everyday internet use all rely on data centers. Are you equally concerned or have you been concerned about that.
Additionally, do you have a credible source that says millions of Americans have lost clean water? I searched and only found one outlier in Mansfield, GA. While, I do think there’s a valid point about the environment. I think your next point is more opinions than established facts.
Also as an artist I don’t think creativity becomes obsolete because a new tool exists. Calculators didn’t make math obsolete; they changed what parts of math humans spend time on. AI may change creative work, but it doesn’t replace taste, judgment, intent, or originality. Most artist use AI as a tool. I just had AI catalog my art supplies it was wonderful.
Also closing with “Get a Grip,” does not seem like a way to have an intelligent conversation.
AI can be good if it actually saves you time etc etc but I hate how hard leadership is pushing it. Like it’ll start to be part of our annual review?? It shouldn’t be quantity, it should be quality of use.
There's zero pressure to use it in this instance. But i've found a few creative softwares that can generate social posts-- uploaded our brand guidelines and logo and it can pump out content. I'm keeping it simple and focused on text to not come off AI too but my teammates are treating this like its cheating 😂 they insist on building from scratch in canva.
Me personally i'd rather have high quality AI generated content than amateur hour canva designs being sent out.
Management doesn't care this is on the same team level where disagreements are happening.