I have a boss who tells us weekly that everything we do should start with AI. Researching? Ask ChatGPT first. Writing an email or a document? Get ChatGPT to do it.
They send me documents they “put together” that are clearly ChatGPT generated, with no shame. They tell us that if we aren’t doing these things, our careers will be dead. And their boss is bought in to AI just as much, and so on.
I feel like I am living in a nightmare.
My workplace is very cautious with AI. It’s very conscious of putting private client data into an AI model that will transfer/use it/spit it out somewhere else, and the legal consequences of making mistakes from AI models making things up.
AI is useful in my work (we use copilot) but it’s limited to the most basic stuff. “Here’s a document, give me three key points of about 20 words each” works pretty well. It’s also ok at rewriting things in a different style but it’s a bit hit and miss.
Its crazy to me that people will use these things as some all-knowing Oracle when they’re mainly just systems that imitate human language or jumped-up search engines. I think it goes to show that things that imitate human communication well can be very convincing, and a herd mentality to adopt new technology out of a fear of being left behind, often amongst people that don’t know anything about the technology.