AI on the day to day?

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    I got the most AI job enquiry yet on Friday - it was almost beyond parody, it was so mangled and ridiculous.

    Potential Client kept chasing me over the weekend so I wrote her a blunt, but polite email this morning when I came back in and a hopefully instructive response about why I would not be taking such a job on.

    The image assets she'd generated were basically impossible to create, especially using the processes I (or anyone who does what I do) am able to offer, and the language of the brief was just awful hyper-American corporatism. It was a farce.

    Never mind the fact that she wanted what would have been anyway a very complicated costing 'by monday morning latest', having sent the thing at 4pm on a Friday evening. Red Flags All The Way Down.

    I kept thinking about the effort chain, equating it to about a couple of inches worth of prompting, resulting in a couple of feet's worth of 'brief', necessitating a mile's worth of costing and effort at my end. Basically it was just kicking actual thouhg and effort down the road.

    Not much looking forward to this becoming the new normal.

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    Amusing thing was that her first email response to my immediate dismissal before explanation was clearly written by her (non-native ESL, and the email was perfectly fine), but she obviously distrusted herself so she sent the same as an AI-fluffed follow up a few minutes later and it was just... bilge.

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    • you can't really blame her when the ads show some idiot getting his presentation done by copilot, or some other numpty having his holiday planned by chatgpt.hans_glib
    • the techbros continue to lie us about how great their fourth rate autoscrapers are, and the credulous lap it up.hans_glib
    • it's like black and decker saying "our drill will build your house for you"hans_glib
    • there may be sum underestimation in the effects AI will have in the near-mid term. https://www.citrinir…keewee
    • Working a project request to data engineer a project that was clearly a long AI-response, straight pasted into a job ticket.cotton
    • Unapologetic attempt to outsource thinking to AI from the head of operations, planning to build strategy on the output which is flawed from the prompt.cotton
    • So no AI will take your job :))
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    • The fact people just try is hilarious

      Then please attack me when I call then idiots
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