The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public

I honestly can’t think of reasons to use AI. At work I have to give myself reminders to show my bosses that I used the internal ai tool so I don’t get in shit.

I don’t see the utility, all I see is slop and constant notifications in google.

You can say skill issue but that’s kind of the point; this was all dropped on me by people who don’t understand it themselves. I didn’t ask or want to built the skills to understand ai. Nor did my bosses: they are just following the latest wave. We are the blind leading the blind.

Like crypto ai will prove to be a dead end mistake that only enabled grifters

One recent thing I did was make cute little illustrations for an internal slide deck. I’m not even taking work away from an artist, there was no universe where I would have paid someone to do this, but now every presentation I give can be much more visually engaging than they would have been previously.

The reason your bosses are being obnoxious about making people use the internal AI tool is to push them into thinking about things like this. Perhaps at your company it’s genuinely not useful, but I’ve seen a lot of people say that who I’m pretty confident are wrong.

> now every presentation I give can be much more visually engaging than they would have been previously

What about the impact on your audience? A lot of people are going to view your presentations more negatively based on their views about AI.

I've never heard of anyone having that reaction. Obviously hard to know if they're just not telling me, but I kinda doubt there's a large intersection between people who are vehemently anti-AI and people who assume that any clip art they don't recognize is AI.