u/_omar_b

A bit of a rant

Companies & their bosses are pushing for AI in our work without even fully understanding what it is

You can see it in your social media feeds. 50% of the ads I see now on Instagram are AI generated and often inaccurate or misleading. So much of it is fake, lazy and complete slop

In my workplace, I submit work that I did organically for review.. they just say "Run it though chatgpt and improve it"

I ask my boss to lend and eye and provide their criticism? They run it though chatgpt and reiterate whatever it says, without checking if its true or not

I try to do things the right way according to standards our company has set, and they say "just let chatgpt do it for you why are you wasting your time making it manually"

The moment I speak ill about AI its like I committed blasphemy ..

I couldn't care less about the company and the work I give them. But I also want to uphold my own standards. I'm annoyed because I recognize this is the same reason I see AI generated content and low quality work all the time where it shouldn't be, and I wish I could choose to not contribute to this problem from my side.

And since I'm a low level in the company, I don't have a say and my view isn't respected. I'm just expected to contribute to the slop whether I like it or not, while the higher ups keep pushing for AI so they can put it as a buzzword in their CEO-level presentations, even if it doesn't work as intended.

And I'm not against AI. It's excellent for making mundane & time consuming tasks so much quicker. But like all things in the world, it shouldn't be used & abused for everything. It has its uses and its limits. And if you start depending so much on AI that it replaces your thought process or replaces your own creativity, then you've crossed that limit. But that seems to be where they want me to be headed

So many people are misusing the technology and as an employee you're just expected to roll right with them. I don't like it

I got stuck in a mall parking run by Parkonic for over an hour. Almost as long as the movie I had just seen. System refused to acknowledge my car ever entered the mall. Call support at the machine doesn't work. Toll-free line initially tried to get me to pay (which I shouldn't have to), but then were helpless to actually fix the issue.

What truly shocked me is that they had 0 staff in the mall to support with these issues. Absolutely no one! I had to wait over an hour for anyone to show up. Wondering if anyone else encountered this.

I can't imagine if someone has an important meeting or an emergency and had to leave urgently, then encountered this joke of a system. What would you do?