AI is not the enemy; you are

Before computers were in every home, designers looked at this thing with disgust. How could this electronic device possibly create anything as good as them? Nope. Computers were going to take their jobs and render them obsolete, so the best solution was to avoid them, protest them and act as though the work produced was inferior to that of a human.

Ghibli art done by AI showed up, and anime artists protested. My niece joined the army of people who thought AI was destroying everything. I suggested it may actually be advantageous.

I want to encourage you to open your mind to a world of what could be because we could make it that way. We can live in a world with AI that has value for non-AI as well.

When you buy an Aston Martin, it is signed by the lead on the car from the factory floor. You see that signature with a sense of pride, not just because you have the car but because suddenly you also sense the pride of the craftsman and feel a connection.

That's what signing something does. It doesn't have to be art, or anime, or even something physical, there is a place of value that will always exist for human made.

Animae creates have an uncanny way of capturing the real raw emotions. Because artists are human, they understand the parts of us that cannot be explained or described; humans, after all, are strange, unpredictable beings. This means that if it cannot be defined or understood, it cannot be replicated by AI, and we will notice the disparity, making art by anime and other artists still coveted and valued.

We notice when AI is writing (not used for this article at all BTW except to verify spelling), there is a flatness or a rhythm that is not captured the same way. English is a weird language and as nuanced as it is, you can tell US english from Canadian English and British English though you cannot tell people what it is, you just know. I think this is why writers know they will still have a place and that their work will still shine.

AI is not all the way there. I have seen it do some of my work, and 90% of that work needs to be edited, but it does help get something started. It's a tool to make life more efficient, not to replace everything. You are using AI without even realizing it but now there should be fences. It's ok for our Apple watch to use it, for it to help fill sentences in Google search or to get Netflix or Amazon suggestions but no further? We are villainizing a tool that we are happy to use at our request but not happy if it's used at our cost.

AI will take your job if it is redundant and simple, but this can be an opportunity to learn new skills, like early factory workers did. You can lead AI to do your job and manage it while doing your job if you learn it.

I think AI will make us appreciate human skill again, we will seek things that connect us back to that feeling of being connected to the creator. We will see in-person pop up and be better attended as people seek to see and converse with other people over chatbots and autoresponses.

Graphic designers use computers, and we still can cut and paste as we wish, we use it as a tool, knowing it did not steal our creativity, our freedom or make design bad, it made it faster, reduced the number of gluesticks and whiteout needed and allowed us to accomplish things much more effectively.