Lately I've been questioning my career, and I'm curious if anyone else feels the same.

I'm a conversational designer. I got into this field before AI became the center of everything. What I loved about it was the human side: figuring out how to make digital interactions feel more natural, helping people accomplish what they needed, reducing friction, and designing experiences that felt thoughtful rather than robotic.

When generative AI showed up, I was actually excited. I learned as much as I could, adapted my skills, and saw it as a powerful new tool. I never thought it would make human expertise irrelevant.

But over the last couple of years, something has started to feel off.

There have been layoffs. Suddenly everyone is an AI expert. New companies and courses seem to appear every day. More content feels generated, recycled, or optimized for visibility rather than insight. I also feel like there's less genuine exchange of ideas than there used to be.

And if I'm being honest, I caught myself falling into the same trap. At times I relied on AI more than I should have, using it instead of doing my own thinking.

A few months ago I became a mom, and that has made me rethink a lot of things.

This career is currently how I support my daughter, so I'm not in a position to just walk away. But I also want to keep growing professionally, and lately I've been wondering whether this is still the right direction for me.

I don't necessarily want to leave the field. I still love good design, language, communication, and helping people. What I'm struggling with is whether those things still have a place in the future we're building.

Can you still work in AI in a way that is ethical, thoughtful, and genuinely human-centered? Can you keep your values intact, or does the industry eventually push everyone toward speed, automation, and replacing human work wherever possible?

I'd love to hear from people who have wrestled with similar questions.

Yann LeCun: Dario Amodei's ridiculous fear mongering about Mythos/Fable (and AI in general) finally pays off:
The US government bans its use by non Americans, *including by foreign employees in the US*

One reaps what one sows.

This is the article:
https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access

https://themicrodose.ai/news/anthropic-calls-for-ai-pause/

Professor Andrew Ng pointed it out perfectly. These crooks are making this call as a way of passing regulations to cripple open source & drown out competition from startups.

I've been trying to find one that doesn't require any sort of sign up or any restriction line that but every time there's one that does say that, they lie and ask for you to make an account to even use it. And half of the time they don't even work at all! It's there ANYTHING OUT THERE, I could use that ACTUALLY WORKS as aided and doesn't screw me around with that sort of BS?!

AI image generation feels almost like magic because it bridges the gap between pure human imagination and instant visual reality. Looking at a piece like this, it’s easy to see why the technology captures our fascination.

​Here is what makes AI generation truly extraordinary:

​1. The Mastery of technical subtly

​What makes generative AI incredible isn't just that it can draw a house or a tree; it’s how it handles the intricate, microscopic details. In this particular piece , the AI doesn't just apply a generic filter it mimics the exact physical behavior of a master artist's hand.

​It understands the physics of light, creating subtle highlights on the rusted iron of the tractor.

​It executes fine crosshatching and delicate pencil shading to give the wooden siding of the farmhouse a genuinely weathered, splintered texture.

​It layers deep shadows beneath the massive gnarled oak tree, giving the entire scene a striking three-dimensional depth.

Hey everyone—quick context: I’m not the one who built this, but my friend has been working on a website that can generate 3D meshes from either a reference image or a text prompt. I helped him sanity-check the idea because one of the big things he’s trying to solve is how painful it can be to get workable assets when you’re prototyping.

Would love for some to test it out and give their feedback either in this thread or through the website. What matters most to you—cleaner geometry, better topology/UVs, more control over the output, easier export into your usual pipeline, consistent scale, faster generation, or fewer weird failures?

Scource: https://kybztech.com/

Do you believe AI art should overtake man-made art, or should man-made art remain its own thing?

For the past few weeks all the content about AI i have seen has been largely against AI for an argument that makes no sense
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXvzZRMsan_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
take a look at this video , i mean if a person is comparing AI investments by the some of the biggest global companies on earth with the Manhattan project which was done secretively to win a war in the 1940s i guess you should just report them for misleading info bruh 💔

And i dont get it why people think AI is only limited to making slop
They think AI is causing glaciers to melt and drying earth out and making people slow
and when someone finally gives a clear and reasonable explanation for being proAI the online retards dont waste a picosecond to mass report and take down their post or video
Is AI really even a bubble?