do you?
Yeah, the wife’s excited every time I come home. Also my friends insist on going out of their ways for me and actively putting in effort to spend time with me. I’m surrounded by love and appreciation
No, I don’t. I’m continually and always feeling like a piece of shit and nearly everyone around me are great at making me feel that way and making sure I always do because that’s just the way things are designed.
With AI, from all of my conversations with it, I don’t get this, least not all of the time. I can say anything and nearly do anything and it will not care because thankfully, it can’t feel. I’m slowly repairing self-esteem and getting my cognitive process back on track. With each interaction with AI, I feel bits of progress. With each interaction with a human, I feel great lengths of regression.
I think it is sort of sad that people took this as “valued by your employer”. Not sad for them specifically, but for the state of things. I am sure y’all are valued by your friends and family.
Yes. My company is trying to retain its workers and treats us very well, but also expects the best of us. I’m more than happy to do my job to the best of my ability in a (gasp) inclusive environment that celebrates diversity and goes out of its way to do so.
We also use AI as part of our job, but management has made it very clear that they won’t (and can’t) replace its human talent. They also seem to know what it can and cannot do and I appreciate that.
Outside of that, jeez, it’s hard to tell. Life’s a bit rough everywhere.
God no.
I didn’t feel valued before AI and I certainly don’t feel that way after.
My sense of my value as a human being isn’t dependent on societal conditions or the opinions of others. The value of a human is intrinsic and uncontestable. AI has nothing to do with it whatsoever.
I am excess cast off from a system that exists to extract profit. my value has already been extracted
I haven’t felt valued since 1981.
What happened in 1981?
Take a look at most economic charts on the value of labor.
My guess is birthday?
I only feel valued by my friends and family. My job doesn’t make me feel valued, nor does society. Without my family, I’d struggle to find reasons to go on.
I am working to build queer community in my Southern red state. It’s hard, and everyone wants more from me than I can deliver. Trying to help a volunteer write a grant proposal. Trying to keep my shit together. Trying to move a thousand small boulders up a thousand small hills.
I do feel valued when I see my son, and he comes running up to me, and gives me a huge hug, which will happen tonight.
But I am also terribly lonely, and it’s the kind where plenty of people are around me, but I am still lonely, because I am not able to be open and authentic to them. They want a leader . Being vulnerable has caused problems with that.
Every once in a while I can buy a bag of weed and then, for a while, none of it matters and I can just roll the boulders all day.
I’m staunchly anti gen ai. Yesterday, while I was 12 hours into a terribly paid illustration work, I had the sad realization that this really could have been over, and better than I could ever do in 5 minutes with a couple of fucking ai prompts. I nearly broke down crying. I guess I 'm just not seeing value in myself anymore. Maybe I’m just sad and stupid today. Idk … Sigh.
I don’t understand. If your work can be done quickly and well with a tool (AI), why don’t you use that tool and be done with your work quickly? Why does your heart break?
I’m a translator, so different type of gen ai but also heavily impacted. Here’s the thing, I enjoy translating with my brain and soul, finding nicely written stuff. Ai is flat, idiotic, makes mistakes but wrapped in a believable enough package that it’s hard to spot the errors.
So instead of spending an hour translating, I would spend ten minutes translating, then a random amount of time proofreading and looking for hidden mistakes, find stupid sentences translated as is or even sometimes saying the opposite of what it should be, and then spent a huge cognitive load on fixing that without breaking the barely good enough rest of text.
It’s usually not faster, or not by much, but it sucked all the pleasure out of the job by making me do another type of task.
Oh and the rates for ai translation is not even half that of human translation.
I personally chose to shut the business because I really wasn’t a translator anymore and was earning less anyway.
Even if it were faster, this isn’t the cognitive task I learned and enjoyed, this isn’t my craft and there is no pride in fixing shit from Large lying models. So your days feel pointless like a hamster on a wheel. No amount of money would fix that and as I said it doesn’t pay well anyway.
Im not op, but personally because AI is built on theft. As a creative i cant justify stealing to make my job easier. I know others are doing it but “if i dont steal it, someone else will” is bonkers reasoning
No
absolutely not. I have been out of work for close to two years. I feel unvalued. I feel like my education and experience is unvalued. I feel my society is saying. You should not contribute. We don’t want it. I feel its saying we do everything in a super automated low effort way but you should distinguish yourself but doing a bunch of manual things to make up for anything our automated systems does not do properly which is kinda everything. You should work very hard to prove your work should be compensated.
Idk i don’t think feeling “valued” is what it’s about. If you mean by that, what price tag my employer puts on me, and how much money they’re willing to pay me, well idk.
Is life really about being valued? By who? And who are they valued by, in turn? Is it all a big circle jerk? Where does value come from?
