A lot of people at my work, especially managerment, are very pro AI. I’ve haven’t openly shared my opinion of AI/the fact that I don’t use it, because the hype around AI seems almost cult like at my work. It was months before anyone brought up hallunications.
Part of me wants to share my reasons against AI at work. Some possible reasons I’m thinking of sharing are cooking the planet, you don’t know when it is hallucinating so how do you trust it, critical thinking rot.
Any advice on discussing the negatives of AI at work? Or should I just keep my head down and let sloppers slop?
Make a point of mentioning all the mistakes it makes, and the time you spend unfucking them.
My boss was quickly convinced against AI when he tried to introduce it into our workflow by sitting down with a user to “guide” their use of AI to “help” their work and then seeing how, even with his “guidance” it was almost impossible to get something useful out of it. When he was tinkering with it to see if it was plausible, he didn’t account for the time spent correcting the never-ending stream of errors (assuming it was part of the learning curve) but once seeing it in use he realized how not only did it add little to the abilities of the workers, it actively detracted from their productivity.
So provide something similar. Record a session with your boss’ AI of choice. Make a note of time and place of each failure. A count of corrections and how long it took to spot the mistake to correct it in the first place. Print this out, ideally with handwritten annotations of each error and time. Put that on his desk.
And keep doing that.
Time after time after time.