Why are people encouraged to use AI, but penalised for it?

@JumpingRabbitthanks - all good. The questions were very clearly designed to eliminate those people powered by AI, so I’m resting easy tonight.

Thanks!

There’s a big difference between using it to do homework assignments or creating AI slop event posters and leveraging its efficiency to sharpen your productivity. AI will change the world over the next couple of years, that change is not going to come about from editing photos or creating fake videos, it will impact the sciences, medicine, industry, legal and financial services, supply chains and so on in ways we cannot fathom.

Much like when the iPhone was first launched no one at the time understood the opportunities that would unlock, back in the Nokia days if someone had said your phone would soon be your car key (Tesla) an incredible camera, filled with social media apps, track your sleep, be able to watch tv shows and that you’d probably make only a couple of calls per day if any you wouldn’t have believed them or be able to grasp the concept.

AI is going to be the same.

Are the people who are encouraging you to use AI and the people telling you not to use it the same people? If they are I can understand your confusion but if, as I suspect, they are not, then I don’t see a contradiction.

Ah no sorry 😔 I am sure if you have written it and only used it to score it you will be fine. Good luck!

Who is asking you to use it?

@JumpingRabbitI don’t suppose you’re interviewing for NICS DP?

Ignore if not, but I’m quite disheartened by the AI. I have written my presentation and used AI to score it - but I’m hoping I’ve threaded enough of me through it so my panel will know it hasn’t been churned out by software.

Are you the OP?

I would like to use AI to copy over information from one form to another which would be really helpful

AI is a great tool but it needs 20% human input at the beginning - a well thought out, clear and specific prompt

60% AI

20% human input at the end to re-vise, edit, improve and proof read

My workplace. We were all (more than 100 of us) dragged into an online AI awareness training on MS Teams. The instructor was saying how AI is the next big thing and encouraged to use it left, right and centre. Except in our IT policy, the only AI we're allowed to use is MS Copilot.

Our work is very mundane and repetitive. Think: booking a Premier Inn room, but doing it 800 times a month, then following up each booking, processing cancellations, amendments etc. Our workload has nearly trebled but there is no money for extra staff. My gripe is that AI should in theory be able to process some of the repetition but we're not allowed to use the wider tools and I can't see how Copilot can help there. It's more geared towards writing letters and tarting them up which goes back to the OP's original issue with AI detection.

Good post but I'd add c) people who don't understand AI (or LLMs) and think they can do far more than they can.

absolutely this!

The double standard in recruitment RN is beyond ridiculous. We’re not allowed to use AI to write applications but those applications are often sifted and filtered by AIs that don’t do a good job or use any common sense. Job applicants just can’t win at the moment.

Sadly not true. You can put work in that was created years before AI and AI detectors will say it’s mostly AI generated. They’re pretty useless.

The only people telling you to use AI are (a) the AI companies and (b) the bosses who think they can get you to do more work for less money and without hiring extra works by having you use AI. There are some things that AI does well, but also a lot that it does badly. Being able to judge the difference is an important skill in itself.

I don't understand what you're getting at, being encouraged to use ai (not something that I've experienced) doesnt mean it is appropriate in every situation

What is confusing?

Also, hate to point out the obvious but if AI can do it, what exactly are they paying you for?

What was this for

If it is a creative industry then you shouldn't be using AI to pull it all together, that's what you should be doing!

Because AI is a tool. It can be a very powerful tool.
A builder might have a super duper drill (AI), best in the business. But if that builder cant use his tape measure then you probably dont want to hire him.

Who's encouraging you to use it?

Well it is, because it won’t be picked up by AI detectors if you use it in they way we’re describing

The best way I've heard it described is as a junior research assistant; it's good, but not great. I don't think it does much to raise the ceiling, but it does raise the floor. It will rarely be exceptional, but it will stop things from being totally shit, as it stands you can still find a skilled person in any field that will do it way better than AI can. So get a first draft from it, but it's rarely appropriate to submit it as your own. Knowing how to use it well is a great skill.