If you work at an office, you're paid to think, not to use the computer
If you have to spend 8 hours a day sitting at a desk, staring at a screen, and typing stuff away, there's a high chance (like, 95% I'd guess) that your job is actually having to think about stuff, and not using the computer. It doesn't matter if you're a translator, a writer, a coder, a digital artist, an accountant, a lawyer, a secretary/clerk, or whatever else: the most important part of your job happens inside your brain. The computer is just a tool to put your thoughts in order, to avoid forgetting stuff, and to communicate it all to other people.
Here's the issue: people who defend the so-called "AI", and hype it up, mistake one thing for the other. My first guess is that they don't derive any pleasure on doing their job — which is like, fine, being ground by the system every day tends to do that — which might lead to looking for shortcuts to reduce mental load, especially if they are overworked, underpaid, and don't have enough time to unwind after a busy day.
But also, there are the cases of executive and management types who don't understand the work of their underlings and think that all they do is to type stuff away on the computer, and this is the real issue: the thinking is the real work, but since it happens inside our heads, it can't be measured, so people measure the employee's "output" instead, which is misleading and a failed approach from the get-go. A coder needs to solve abstract problems in their head before typing in the code; an engineer needs to think long and hard on how to deal with this or that situation before committing it to the software or paper; artists, writers, and every other creative job need to think about endless possibilities before defining how to approach whatever is they are working on; and so on. I mean, even clerks and secretary have to bear a lot of cognitive load to deal with schedules, calls, the public, and think about how to handle — and prioritize! — everything in a timely fashion before they act.
So, why am I saying this? Because I hope people understand, or at least remember, that thinking is also a part of the job, even if it can't be measured. The so-called "AI" is trying to rob us of the most important aspect and leaving us to just become husks typing away (or copying-pasting) whatever nonsense it creates. The people behind this tech don't understand any of the fields they want to supplant with "AI". A tech that could revolutionize all of our work and make it "more productive" will never exist because each job has their own quirks that require specific solutions. They could completely remove the necessity of me typing a translation into the computer and I would be, I don't know, 15% more productive at best, because typing is the easy part, and the hard part — thinking — can never be truly overtaken by genAI.
Just a reminder: manual labor also requires thinking and solving problems. I'm just talking about "office work" here because it's the main target of the "AI" cultists, but rest assured, every kind of labor requires more than just empty mechanical movement, it doesn't matter how "unskilled" it might seem.
Never forget, people: you're paid to type stuff into a computer alright, but you're also paid to stare at the ceiling for 10~20 minutes while trying to come with a solution for the most recent roadblock. And you can't forcefully optimize this kind of stuff.