If AI "speeds up your work a lot" you probably have a bulletin job. And hey no shade get that bag but as someone with experience in the fields pushing Ai productivity that is not a flex.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

If AI "speeds up your work a lot" you probably have a bulletin job.

Damn near every job is formulaic and repetitive on some level, there are very few jobs that require true creativity and ingenuity in every step of the job.

[–] s0ykaf@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

you probably have a bulletin job

i'm a historian. it speeds things up when i need to look for more specific bibliographical references, something google sucks at (and has somehow become worse since around 2020, especially with the ad spamming). it helps me communicate in conferences. as an editorial board member of a journal, it helps me search for peer reviewers, something google and google scholar are also remarkably bad at. i used to translate my abstracts by hand (my first language is portuguese, but english language abstracts are required by most journals), and i can safely say AI does 90% of that job within a fraction of the time, which is especially good when doing portuguese to english (the structure in portuguese language makes this a big headache). the only thing i'll probably never do is asking the thing to write for me from scratch, or even to do text review, since it always results in a dry, artificial pile of words

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

become worse since around 2020

And llms have a lot to do with that.

[–] s0ykaf@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

And llms have a lot to do with that.

a moot point as long as it effectively replaces and improves on what google used to do. the process of using google now is worse than it's ever been; but for my purposes, the process of using AI instead has been better than googling ever was, before or after llms