I can’t seem to win. I get criticized whenever I pick out a career I’m interested in. According to others, I can’t possibly do it, no matter what it is. I face shame for messing up at jobs, then I get more shame for not having a job.
I get shame for not having a boyfriend, or a husband (no kids, and pets too…I got nothing so shame on me), then I get rid of these nasty people who shame me, and get more shame for having no friends.
I get fat-shamed too, most recently by my own father, who didn’t even work to lose weight—it was a health issue that caused it!
On top of all this external shame, I get voices that insult me at least one third of all the chatter, day after day. Even when I had a job, they thought I was a bum.
The only things I’m good at are being overtaken by AI (art, writing). I have a degree in graphic design, but I was never the best at it, so I worked on being a good illustrator and I survived in that industry for over a decade because people knew I had the bonus talent of illustration. Then I got sick in the late 1990s. Now AI is replacing illustration. I’m not working right now, but I feel like a door has been shut. I can’t go back to that if I get better. Chat GPT might eventually replace writers which is my only other talent.
I don’t know how to speak French and I live in a bilingual city. Shame on me!
I wish I could move, but I’d be even more alone if I did.
My daughter is finishing a degree in marketing (Bachelor of Commerce). She is getting very good at using AI to create the basis for designs or marketing text and customizing it. Her view is that AI won’t put her out of a job if she is proficient with it because employers will want employees who know how to leverage it in the workplace. She is very good at both writing and illustration.
The people who made Midjourney trained their AI on a database of five billion copyrighted artworks and photography scraped from the internet without the consent of artists and photographers (some of these people have disabilities). They exploited a legal loop hole. None of these creative people were compensated. I will never use AI to create artwork. It is unethically sourced. I just can’t…sorry. But it doesn’t really matter. I can’t hold a job right now anyway.
same here. Except that I feel like Im stuck in a quantum illuminati matrix. As soon as they installed those new lamps (cues evil laughter for no reason) has sudden fake heart attack–
I don’t think AI has trouble making hands anymore. It had trouble at the end of last year.