Blåhaj PieFedCreative workers on the affects of AI on their jobs
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e9627w156o
How do an artist, a videographer, a musician and a copywriter feel about generative AI?
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If I told JP Allard that I did not find their work authentic, I’m sure they would say “You’re absolutely right!”
*effects
Mmm, maybe. Affects also works as it means to influence. It’s subtle and context matters, but if AI is still changing things with their job then affects is the verb you want. If AI has changed their job and nothing further is happening then effect is the noun you want.
Affects would be accurate if the sentence had been constructed differently.
Affects is a verb, which is not in line with the rest of the sentence
To be exact, there is a noun “affect” whose plural would presumably be “affects”, but it’s a term of art in psychology and absolutely not the word that is wanted here.
I work in a creative industry for a pretty large business, with limited exception really nobody is using AI except maybe to send lazy email responses. If there’s workers getting replaced by slop it’s not where I’m at.
It just really hasn’t shown much ability to not fuck up. People dip their toe in occasionally to show upper upper management we’re leveraging “all the tools available to us”, but I’ve never seen it used for anything more substantial than a mood board.
You sounds like you work at a great company. Every single level of my leadership at my company is fully brainwashed by it. They literally tell us how to do our jobs with AI, and yes, it’s almost always wrong and creates headaches and long emails explaining why we can’t or shouldn’t listen to what “they” are telling us to do.
I’m a few of these professions. I freaking hate AI. It’s dramatically harmed my enjoyment of my job.
A family member is a graphic designer for an agency. They use AI to reformat files, and claim that having AI do it, then fixing it, is quicker and easier than doing it some other way. But their actual creative process doesn’t involve AI at all.
I do retouching work. Recently lost a client to an ‘AI’ retouching firm. When the client came back to me to fix loads of stuff and I looked at the output, it became apparent that the work had actually just been outsourced to India and there was no magic AI solution.
Gen AI is an amazing tool but not a one click solution like so many are claiming.
Marketing people are the worst. They are why Ai won’t fuck off, tech bros can push it but without the marketing twats nothing will happen.
I’m only a hobbyist and create for fun, but I hate GenAI with a passion; I hate everything it stands for and now I genuinely think it’s a scam and that it needs to be treated and prosecuted as the scam it is.
And Sam Altman of OpenAI infamy really needs his own Harry Markopolos turning up the heat on him and contributing to him eventually getting busted like Markopolos did to Madoff 18 years ago, since if GenAI is a scam, then Sam Altman is the modern-day Bernie Madoff.