Software Engineer at a Big Five Tech company
Into the Funhouse Mirror | Anonymous A.I. Confessional
Former Marketer at a Product Management Firm, Hollywood Screenwriter, Ivy League Literature Professor, Ivy League Postdoc, Literary Agent, Magazine Editor and Writer, New York Times Best-selling Author, News Reporter, PhD Student in History, Prominent Novelist, Psychiatry Fellow, Software Engineer at a Big Five Tech company, Unemployed Anthropologist, Union Organizer
At a May event in Poland, the novelist Olga Tokarczuk revealed that she had asked an A.I. chatbot to suggest songs the protagonists of her latest novel might have heard at a dance set decades ago. And her queries weren’t limited to questions of historical fact: “Often I just ask the machine, ‘Darling, how could we develop this beautifully?’” she continued. “In literary fiction this technology is an advantage of...
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Software Engineer at a Big Five Tech company
A.I. apps and tools have completely changed the way I work. I get tasks done faster, but I also learn at a slower rate. And my company’s A.I. usage requirements infuriate me. For over a year, my employer tracked my daily A.I. usage, a policy that was pushed in the name of “innovation.” The A.I. tools provided by my company were poor and changed every week. When asked a reasonable...
