AI isn't coming for my job (I hope)

I've been quite vocal about my reluctant and scarce usage of AI and I kind of wanted to talk about it from a music tutor's point of view, and to a degree from my personal point of view as a human too.

I can't say I never use it because I have. My last job almost required it, and I felt like others would make me feel like I was wasting time by writing out emails without prompting chat gpt. When I did use it, however, I found myself spending time on the prompt, and then revising and editing the result anyway. Emails would feel toxicly positive and sickly sweet with grand wordplay that I wouldn't use in day to day conversation. It feels obvious, cheap and without thought or feeling.

I want my students and parents to feel like they get emails from me and that I have spent time and consideration on the contact they do have with me. The A stands for artificial, and I don't want anything about my business to feel artificial. It should be personal, real, and human.

The other concern I have is that AI works by using the information you give it via prompts to learn. I don't want bots like ChatGPT learning about my students, or how I run my business, or taking ownership of the graphics I have lovingly created myself.

I can see a future where AI will develop enough to give feedback on clips of audio leading to it being used as a tutoring tool. I think this could be a great thing if used for practicing at home. I don't think it will substitute a human instrument tutor though. Just like you cannot recreate crochet by machine because of the complex movement involved, a machine cannot play an instrument with feel like a human can, so how can it begin to replicate a human's understanding of how to play an instrument with all the complex movement and dexterity involved.

I haven't even begun to mention the impact on the earth, but I don't know enough about it to factually comment on that.

What I will say is about art and music. A lot of people are using it to create, and it feels all kinds of wrong. All Facebook is now is AI posters and people being horrible towards eachother. I hope people start to realise that if everyone uses AI graphics that all have the same feel and style to them, their posters are just going to blend in with every other poster that looks exactly the same. I've got a little plan up my sleeve for this, so watch this space.

I suppose I just wanted to write this piece to make a bit of a promise that I won't be using AI. I don't need it, and I don't want to ruin my reputation of being personable, approachable, and that I have time for my students and parents.

Let me know what you all think.