More to do in less time? Enter the ‘magic helper’.
It seems there’s a new conundrum that’s entered the villa. It’s called: 'Our bosses want us to get more work done than we’ve ever gotten done in our lives and in far less time too.’
With the use of AI, from ChatGPT to Grammarly to Photoshop, it seems things are easier to do than ever. Need to write an essay about the conundrum of AI? Just ask ChatGPT and save yourself the time!
With that being known and budgets across the nation getting more strict (or at least, seemingly so), it seems obvious that AI can help us.
This is likely true. Let’s just not let it hurt us more in the process.
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My creative brain fears AI, not due to the fact that my skills are no longer assets, but more so that it saddens me that the most human-est of jobs, the ones founded on emotion and care and understanding and belonging - are being taken by those who…. don’t inherently have emotion and care and understanding and belonging.
It’s a lie. It’s fraud. It’s… AI.
Just gives me a freaky feeling.
A company is a company, that’s scary enough, right? So what do we do to make it not so scary? We put humans behind those companies, to provide the HUMANNESS that makes makes the corporate experience feel okay. A hand holder. A “I know you want to take my money but you are a group of people with emotions so it’s OKAY”.
But then, you see a certain brand’s social media page and in one single glance, you know: This was NOT created by a human. You know when you see it. There’s a few emojis, perhaps a pun, a slight feeling of disconnect with the brand voice, a term is used just sliiiiiiightly incorrectly. And if it WAS a human, it was a human trying to pretend to be like AI. Now THAT is a terrifying thought, my goodness. New ‘Scary Movie’ plot unlocked. Definitely worthy of a Black Mirror episode, if it hasn’t already been.
You may ask: “But what if AI gets good enough that there’s no disconnect whatsover and it feels authentic to the brand”. Well, if that is the case, I’m going to go with my gut. WHY CAN’T WE JUST BE ENOUGH ON OUR OWN?
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The one thing we have as humans is creativity and the ability to make intersections between unrelated thoughts and I just think that’s the most beautiful thing in the whole wide world.
I just hope we don’t loose that. And that when I read something on social media, I know it’s coming from at least a human entity of some form.
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That was Part 2 of me getting sidetracked along the way with the conversation of AI. We’ll see where we end up on the next one.
Sincerely,
not AI.
NEXT ON: AI - ARE WE ABOUT TO GET REALLY BAD AT THINGS THAT WERE ONCE EASY SINCE WE ARE NOW JUST LETTING AI DO IT FOR US?! How quickly will we regress? Where will we be able to put the extra brain-space towards - or was that brain space not requesting VACANCY?! WHERE WILL THIS EXTRA TIME TAKE US OR WILL WE JUST BE SHELLS OF OUR FORMER SELVES WITH NO HOPE FORWARD?!! Yay okay talk soon xo
