A friend of mine was helping me to do some screens to make some OBS Studio scenes. We were on discord sharing our workflow via screen share, then he looks for an AI model using a search engine. Then upload an image just to cut the white background. I told him that easily he could use the magic wand in photoshop or gimp to cut it out, even, if he wanted, customize the settings to achieve saw edges or none of them. The place where he works loads a bunch of work to him, so, he says me that that’s the only way to make the day job done, but, the image that the AI spit out was horrible. The AI not just cut the background, it cut relevant part of the image too, also, it added some transparency to the image. Thing that my buddy had to fix in photoshop adding some black under it in another layer.
I do not know how to talk to him about it, because he was the photoshop guy in highschool and I was the gimp guy in highschool, we always tried to achieve the same things in both softwares, we got pretty good in them. He uses AI for everything now, to add subtitles, to delete content from a video or image, to cut background, etc, just to fix it in photoshop or whatever.
In IT, you see people do things the hard way so often because it’s what they know and figured out, and changing over to an easy way requires them to relearn and change their workflow, which they just don’t see the point in.
You’ve already suggested to them there’s a better and easier way to do what they need with existing tools instead of AI and they’ve turned it down - I would say leave it there. Something something leading horses to waters.
Some times people do things a way that takes longer because it avoids having to think. It avoids the effort of using the brain, in favor of spending more time doing something simple and easy.
This is one of the dangers of AI. The mental equivalent of getting out of shape because you drive everywhere and never walk.
If I’m completely honest, I’ve felt that with my own use of AI and it’s my primary driver in reducing or outright avoiding its use personally - I’m not learning anything when it codes up crap that barely works, and then debugging that crap later on is a nightmare because I don’t have the requisite experience.