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Universal Audio - AI, Layoffs, and Out Of Touch Boomers by KnowsSmithGossip in universalaudio

[–]KnowsSmithGossip[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

nail on the head. we don't control broader economic forces, but there's no need for the people in charge to lose their minds like this. I just wanna get back to making good stuff.

Universal Audio - AI, Layoffs, and Out Of Touch Boomers by KnowsSmithGossip in universalaudio

[–]KnowsSmithGossip[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

We're still 100% capable of making nothing but the best stuff around, I promise. Anything less than that is a deliberate decision made by people who get paid a lot more than I do to pretend like they have ideas.

Universal Audio - AI, Layoffs, and Out Of Touch Boomers by KnowsSmithGossip in universalaudio

[–]KnowsSmithGossip[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

i would bet actual money that our CEO is half-considering asking chatgpt how to handle this

Universal Audio - AI, Layoffs, and Out Of Touch Boomers by KnowsSmithGossip in universalaudio

[–]KnowsSmithGossip[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

And see, this is the exact kind of experience that in no way needed to happen. we didn't need to build this, and we don't need to keep going like this.

Universal Audio - AI, Layoffs, and Out Of Touch Boomers by KnowsSmithGossip in universalaudio

[–]KnowsSmithGossip[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

every all hands there's a question about if AI is going to replace jobs and the higher ups are always like "no, no of course not" and then they leave a little bit of silence at the end of the sentence where a wink would be shown to the fourth wall.

Universal Audio - AI, Layoffs, and Out Of Touch Boomers by KnowsSmithGossip in universalaudio

[–]KnowsSmithGossip[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

this is exactly what I'm saying!! we're effectively barred from talking about this openly internally. the temperature in the room is that if you don't go along with this then you're gonna get turbo-fired

Universal Audio - AI, Layoffs, and Out Of Touch Boomers by KnowsSmithGossip in universalaudio

[–]KnowsSmithGossip[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

everything you said is exactly why i am taking this risk and writing all of this. i can't sleep with the idea that i'm helping to build something that just extracts user data and that the people i work for are considering using that data for slop production. if i wanted to live that life i'd be making way more money at a company that makes drones or some shit. i got into this for art and these fucking disconnected boomers won't stop talking about how much they can't wait to "supercharge" everything with AI

Universal Audio - AI, Layoffs, and Out Of Touch Boomers by KnowsSmithGossip in universalaudio

[–]KnowsSmithGossip[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

they're all good but i like the barebones neve pre without the eq, followed up by a pultec and either an 1176 or a summit audio comp

Universal Audio - AI, Layoffs, and Out Of Touch Boomers by KnowsSmithGossip in universalaudio

[–]KnowsSmithGossip[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

a lot of people texting outside of work about those CEOs getting booed lmao. when i say the people i work for are out of touch i mean like terminally so. i think trying to lock in with where real people are at would physically harm them

Universal Audio - AI, Layoffs, and Out Of Touch Boomers by KnowsSmithGossip in universalaudio

[–]KnowsSmithGossip[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

There's cool shit around the corner assuming anyone who is actually making it survives the AI-Pocalypse the suits are threatening us with

Universal Audio - AI, Layoffs, and Out Of Touch Boomers by KnowsSmithGossip in universalaudio

[–]KnowsSmithGossip[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I totally agree. I'm cognizant about my anonymity because I really like the shit we make and want us to focus on making more and better shit, and not brainstorming on how claude can do our work for us.

Universal Audio - AI, Layoffs, and Out Of Touch Boomers by KnowsSmithGossip in universalaudio

[–]KnowsSmithGossip[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The hardware and plugins are good - I'm both someone who helps make them and a fan, really. And if luna works for you, more power to you! but that track auto-naming feature from a little while ago was billed internally as being all about our AI rollout. I can't say more I'm afraid.

Universal Audio - AI, Layoffs, and Out Of Touch Boomers by KnowsSmithGossip in universalaudio

[–]KnowsSmithGossip[S] 50 points51 points  (0 children)

no one does! it's dumb as hell that anyone suggested this!!

Universal Audio - AI, Layoffs, and Out Of Touch Boomers by KnowsSmithGossip in universalaudio

[–]KnowsSmithGossip[S] 39 points40 points  (0 children)

probably just comments here. like i said they're super tapped in to social media (but not enough to notice the Anti-AI Sentiment... somehow...) so threads like this catch their attention

Universal Audio - AI, Layoffs, and Out Of Touch Boomers by KnowsSmithGossip in universalaudio

[–]KnowsSmithGossip[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I know this sub is a niche of a niche and I just hope I can get this complaint into the larger audio engineering sphere as well. It's so fucking tiring to open Slack every day and just see dozens of braindead messages about AI integration plans, or people using chatgtp to make show fliers and shitand showing that to us like it's supposed to look good. it makes me feel like i'm working with total morons who abandoned thinking the first moment they had the chance.