Veggie_Lover

The answer is actually very simple and direct for me: no.

And there are a few reasons behind that. The first is that, in my professional field, I’m a creative professional, and I’ve seen the negative way AI has been taking over parts of the industry, replacing humans in the creation of generic, soulless advertising campaigns.

There’s nothing better than a actually HUMAN being, with real emotions and real experiences, creating something that can genuinely make difference.

The second reason is that the more AI advances within creative industries (and by that I mean everything from visual art, advertising campaigns, music, books, etc) the less space there is for actual ARTISTS. And, more importantly, the more the general public becomes “conditioned” and used to consuming this kind of “art.”

Honestly, what AI produces shouldn’t even really be considered art, simply because it compiles, fragments, and stitches together pieces of real art made by REAL artists into something completely empty.

That said, I also don’t want to be hypocritical. I do use AI, probably daily, especially in my work environment. Since I work in tech, I’m encouraged to use it, to improve my worked-hours performance metrics (capitalism, yeah it sucks). I don’t really see a problem with using AI for repetitive and mechanical tasks, aside from the environmental impact, of course. But never, never, as a way to “create” for me. Never asking to come up with ideas that should and need to come from my own mind.

I mostly use AI tools built into call platforms to summarize absurdly long two-hour meetings that would otherwise turn into gigantic emails. Or to locate a document in Google Drive when I forgot the file name. I use it to search for information I’m struggling to find easily on Google, or to understand something very specific, like slang from a country whose language I don’t speak. And generally, all of that is connected to my work.