A tangential AI question, not on AI itself, but on “How do you pretend to like AI at work because you know you have to?”

[crookedletter]

Since this is one of those “I hate AI so much I’m gonna post six angry replies just to prove it” threads, I’ll do my part and keep it to one.

And we're all so very proud of you.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I made one post expressing my dislike, and the others are responses to other people's posts. Other people's posts aren't as fun as other people's money.

Since this is one of those “I hate AI so much I’m gonna post six angry replies just to prove it” threads, I’ll do my part and keep it to one.

 

[Bamagan]

Start asking the AI the questions you would normally ask the chief-whatever who was enthusiastic about it, and happily report how much better everything goes when you bypass their input/cut out the middle-man(agement) and just consult the computer directly. If a bot can do their job, after all, it's much more efficient for the meat-made employee to stop being there.

 

[Writer61]

I try to focus on use-cases where it helps. The best example I have is live translation during a meeting, the results are occasionally hilarious but when you work with with people from different countries it is a huge plus. A huge time-saver is generating minutes from meetings. I don't think either represents theft of anybody's work.

More sketchy is that I have used AI to help with writing a couple of macros. No doubt the answers were built on the work of others, but I think both were so simple that the answer generated by AI just saved me time searching though results provided by Google/whatever.

 

[Britva415]

there is a vast distance between a supervisor saying they like a particular method of doing something and the demand that all subordinates adopt that method

And there’s a difference between that and demanding that subordinates like it.

A workplace is free to dictate expectations about how the work gets done and what tools will be used. A worker is free to feel however they feel about that. We usually just keep the feelings to ourselves and either do the work or… don’t.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

I hear AI is pretty good if you ask it to take on a persona. So clearly, you ask the AI to pretend that it is someone who really loves using AI and wants to share that love with others. Then, you pose that AI scenarios and ask how it would respond if it were to be the sort of person who loves AI and, voila, you've learned how to pretend to be someone who likes AI.

Bonus points if you can feed it elements of your personality so that it can more accurately pretend to be YOU pretending to like AI in a business setting like your own.

 

[jsmiam]

I do appreciate the varied replies.

In my case I’m in the computer industry, and with AI being so pervasive, there is a pressure to look like you’re changing with the times. So disliking AI is “bad”, liking it is “good”.

I suppose I can console myself knowing at least some of the AI lovers out there are pretending too. And doing a better job of pretending than me.

 

[SmilingLez]

I also believe there is another reason for pending purgatory. The CMS database was set up 25 plus years ago. Literotica did not have the amount of authors then as it has now. I believe there was a variable hard coded that limited the number of submissions that would stay in the pending queue waiting for review. Anything over that hard coded limit would be sent to pending purgatory (no entry in database). There would be no way for the reviewer to see the story. Remember, the pending tag is an automatic process that occurs once a work is submitted.



As far as the AI tool literotica uses to automatically check story length and ai generation is probably a free add on to the cms.



Revenue is generated by ad clicks, authors contribute nothing to the bottom line, therefore this issue will never be fixed because money and labor/time is involved. The ROI is zero. YMMV

 

[YmaOHyd]

The title says it all.

• How do you pretend you like AI at work, if you think it’s slop, based on theft, mass plagiarism, and click theft, that it’s at best offering 9th grade/3rd form level superficiality, and also that it isn’t much better than just clicking on the first (old fashioned) search result you find in a web search?
• (As you might guess, the intended audience for this discussion are fellow AI skeptics/cynics).
• Keep in mind we debate AI at length in other threads, so we don’t have to debate it in this one.
• So I’m hoping to keep the focus on the topic at hand, “how do you pretend to like AI at work when you know you have to?”

So…. “How do you pretend you like AI at work, when you know your bosses expect you to like it?” For example, the chief-something-officer at my job recently talked enthusiastically about how AI wrote a memo for him/her. So I know where they stand.

I’m just too honest, and I’m struggling at work to keep my mouth shut and to pretend I’m all in. But I know I need to.

How do the rest of my fellow doubters pull of the act at work?

I was, I think, the first person at my org to use AI for anything. The use case for me is really simple: I work on video and audio content on highly technical topics. I cannot afford the fees professional services charge for subtitling and closed caption development, and I don't have time to do it myself as we produce thousands of hours of video and audio each year. AI tools allow me to provide ADA-compliant training.

What I use it for is a pretty simple use case that leans into what AI is good at. It's all voice-to-text recognition stuff, and scope for creative interpretation is pretty limited. I do not use it for writing, editing, image generation or note-taking, and caution people against doing so. Organizationally we're very enthusiastic about it, as we are all tech trends and fads (we wanted to do blockchain despite zero people knowing what that meant). I just try to channel people in the direction of using it for non-thought tasks and understanding and accepting the risks that come with allowing a computer to think for you.

 

[PennyThompson]

AI tools allow me to provide ADA-compliant training

Accessibility is absolutely the single best use case for AI, it's truly a game changer for a lot of people in terms of what content they're able to access and engage with.

Visual accessibility, language accessibility, cognitive and vocabulary accessibility, speech to text, text to speech, vastly improved voice computer interfaces, THIS is the good shit

 

[YmaOHyd]

Accessibility is absolutely the single best use case for AI, it's truly a game changer for a lot of people in terms of what content they're able to access and engage with.

Visual accessibility, language accessibility, cognitive and vocabulary accessibility, speech to text, text to speech, THIS is the good shit

It's gonna put Scout and Jeremy out of a job one day

 

[PennyThompson]

It's gonna put Scout and Jeremy out of a job one day

(Spoiler alert if I ever get this next story finished and submitted, Scout and Jeremy are doing just fine )

 

[YmaOHyd]

(Spoiler alert if I ever get this next story finished and submitted, Scout and Jeremy are doing just fine )

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