This article interviews 8 people, mostly from non tech jobs. e.g. this salon owner:
Samantha Lackney Salon owner Alexandria, Virginia
I cannot tell you how many times in the last six to eight months that clients have come in and shown me photos of stuff they’re looking at, and I have to explain it’s an AI photo. You’ll see images online where hair looks super voluminous, super dense and thick, but if you look closely, you’ll notice that very few people truly have that length of hair and that volume and texture. Or the color is beautiful, but the longer you look at it, it’s very uncanny valley—way too dark in certain areas and way too light in others. I worry about the impact of all this on the beauty standards we hold ourselves to.
On the business side, AI has been super helpful. I’ve used it to help me fine-tune my employee handbook or to assist me when my lawyer was busy, having it look over a copy of a lease before he could get back to me. It was great at summarizing documents or determining the cost of painting an interior in this ZIP code.
A lot of salons use it for caption generating, but you can tell when ChatGPT wrote something, by the format and how it’s laid out. It sounds like Vanna White telling you what’s on the Wheel of Fortune board—it’s too game-show-announcer-y. It’s like: “Trending now! Come get blond for summer.”
I’ve stopped using it. Sometimes I’ll leave one or two small typos in my captions on social media to prove that I’m real.