do you?
Yup.
At work, at home, perhaps not on the internet.
Professionally? No
As a family member or friend? Yes
As a member of society? Barely
What’s the context of your question?
The point of asking a somewhat general question is that you can answer and interpret it how you like and experience responses you wouldn’t expect.
Which is what I got from you. By asking one question.
The mention of AI as an introduction suggests you may have a specific context in mind. If the question is so general, you don’t need to give irrelevant information. Asking “do you feel valued?” is enough, and the absence of context becomes obvious.
Then you answered incorrectly. Maybe you should have focused your response on that rather than ranting about OP post.
Yeah, the wife’s excited every time I come home. Also my friends insist on going out of their ways for me and actively putting in effort to spend time with me. I’m surrounded by love and appreciation
I think it is sort of sad that people took this as “valued by your employer”. Not sad for them specifically, but for the state of things. I am sure y’all are valued by your friends and family.
I’m staunchly anti gen ai. Yesterday, while I was 12 hours into a terribly paid illustration work, I had the sad realization that this really could have been over, and better than I could ever do in 5 minutes with a couple of fucking ai prompts. I nearly broke down crying. I guess I 'm just not seeing value in myself anymore. Maybe I’m just sad and stupid today. Idk … Sigh.
I don’t understand. If your work can be done quickly and well with a tool (AI), why don’t you use that tool and be done with your work quickly? Why does your heart break?
I’m a translator, so different type of gen ai but also heavily impacted. Here’s the thing, I enjoy translating with my brain and soul, finding nicely written stuff. Ai is flat, idiotic, makes mistakes but wrapped in a believable enough package that it’s hard to spot the errors.
So instead of spending an hour translating, I would spend ten minutes translating, then a random amount of time proofreading and looking for hidden mistakes, find stupid sentences translated as is or even sometimes saying the opposite of what it should be, and then spent a huge cognitive load on fixing that without breaking the barely good enough rest of text.
It’s usually not faster, or not by much, but it sucked all the pleasure out of the job by making me do another type of task.
Oh and the rates for ai translation is not even half that of human translation.
I personally chose to shut the business because I really wasn’t a translator anymore and was earning less anyway.
Even if it were faster, this isn’t the cognitive task I learned and enjoyed, this isn’t my craft and there is no pride in fixing shit from Large lying models. So your days feel pointless like a hamster on a wheel. No amount of money would fix that and as I said it doesn’t pay well anyway.
Im not op, but personally because AI is built on theft. As a creative i cant justify stealing to make my job easier. I know others are doing it but “if i dont steal it, someone else will” is bonkers reasoning
As a retired person: no, apart from by other retired people in the village, because we help each other out with our different skill-sets.
We still have a few friends but they are scattered; we meet mostly at funerals.
Politicians think we’re too expensive (healthcare, pensions, etc.) although they’re careful not to be too nasty, as apparently we vote more than other demographics. The fascists think we might vote for them (not a chance).
The young are busy with their own lives as they should be and so we are mostly seen as an inconvenience or, at best, a future inheritance. I’m fine with this: they’ve got it tough and we help where we can.
The AI crowd know we’re too old for that shit (we remember all the bubbles). We don’t buy much stuff either, so the capitalists and advertisers aren’t happy with us. The pub likes us but wishes we’d visit more often. The fund managers are going off us as our pension funds dwindle. I think the lady in the corner shop has a good opinion of us, although she thinks I buy too much beer.
Valued by my friends and family? Yes, very much so!
Value by society? No, not so much, but it’s mutual.
No.
I can’t find sustainable work. I don’t have a romantic partner. I’m old and now facing bleak years left on Earth.
Im young ish, but yeah. No one values me outside of my parents and siblings.
Not particularly, at least not by anyone other than my wife. She thinks I’m pretty great, and I just don’t see it. I think I’m pretty average and unremarkable, and the world will just keep moving along without me once I’m gone. Takes the pressure off a bit, tbh, because it makes the stakes pretty low. If no one values what you provide, then it doesn’t really matter if you meet their expectations or not.
I am working to build queer community in my Southern red state. It’s hard, and everyone wants more from me than I can deliver. Trying to help a volunteer write a grant proposal. Trying to keep my shit together. Trying to move a thousand small boulders up a thousand small hills.
I do feel valued when I see my son, and he comes running up to me, and gives me a huge hug, which will happen tonight.
But I am also terribly lonely, and it’s the kind where plenty of people are around me, but I am still lonely, because I am not able to be open and authentic to them. They want a leader . Being vulnerable has caused problems with that.
Every once in a while I can buy a bag of weed and then, for a while, none of it matters and I can just roll the boulders all day.
I haven’t felt valued since 1981.
What happened in 1981?
Take a look at most economic charts on the value of labor.
My guess is birthday?
My sense of my value as a human being isn’t dependent on societal conditions or the opinions of others. The value of a human is intrinsic and uncontestable. AI has nothing to do with it whatsoever.
I only feel valued by my friends and family. My job doesn’t make me feel valued, nor does society. Without my family, I’d struggle to find reasons to go on.
God no.
Not at all. I’m pretty sure, if I died now, it would take a few months for anyone to notice anything.
I can’t promise to miss you viscerally but I am pretty sure the rest of the universe would.
I don’t see how lol.
I mean, I haven’t had any contact with anybody in 4 months now. Other than the checkout person in the local shop. And I’m sure they wouldn’t care if I stopped going there.
Anyway, this is not a “woe is me” thing, I’m completely fine with this. I much prefer to be left alone lol.
And yet, you responded to this. What’s going on with you? Why do you think you are not valued? I value you.
Yeah, you value me because I answered your question. The question was “do you feel valued” and no, I don’t feel valued because I answered your question.
I don’t feel valued because I bring no value to anyone in my life. Internet strangers asking questions do not count into that lol
I don’t feel valued because I bring no value to anyone in my life. Internet strangers asking questions do not count into that lol
Well, sure it does. That’s the reason we’re all here, isn’t it? Maybe not for you in particular, but for the Lemmy community. Internet strangers asking questions that you then answer and spark discussion is kind of THE value that any of us bring to this place. People asking questions and having discussions and sharing their own perspectives and life experiences is like, 80% of the whole internet. It’s what brought us into the global awareness that we have today.
Well, doesn’t seem to work for me. Glad it does for you.
That sucks. What’s something that to you would feel valuable to do?
Anything, really. Work or whatever. But the crippling depression and anxiety disorder etc sort of gets in the way of all that.
That also sucks. I hope you find some work to do.
I gotta admit to one particular nightmare here
Setting up a home gym in my garage to hopefully remove my excuses …… but years back an acquaintance died while using his home gym in his garage, and was discovered by family. You don’t usually think of exercise as a deadly risk but it happens. Since I live alone, the nightmare is it would be a long time before I was discovered and that much more traumatic if it were family
Well theres a easy solution for that. Don’t get any of those pulley machine things. Just hand weights and a pull up bar. You don’t even really need anything else. Those machines are a waste of money.
Yeah none of that, but one of my kids is a pretty serious weightlifter, so I need some serious equipment for when they’re home from school for the summer.
And an exercycle for cardio when the weather isn’t good
Started with the cycle: a high end machine for dirt cheap off Marketplace. Then dumbbells (except they’re only up to 30 lbs and he uses higher). Most recently found a deal on an Olympic bar and plates. Now comes the hard part: benches and racks, and I’m running out of time to find them on Marketplace
