One recent thing I did was make cute little illustrations for an internal slide deck. I’m not even taking work away from an artist, there was no universe where I would have paid someone to do this, but now every presentation I give can be much more visually engaging than they would have been previously.
The reason your bosses are being obnoxious about making people use the internal AI tool is to push them into thinking about things like this. Perhaps at your company it’s genuinely not useful, but I’ve seen a lot of people say that who I’m pretty confident are wrong.
I've never heard of anyone having that reaction. Obviously hard to know if they're just not telling me, but I kinda doubt there's a large intersection between people who are vehemently anti-AI and people who assume that any clip art they don't recognize is AI.
I’m one of those. I immediately tune out of any presentation that has any sign of ai content because clearly the speaker doesn’t value me as an audience member
The reason your bosses are being obnoxious about making people use the internal AI tool is to push them into thinking about things like this. Perhaps at your company it’s genuinely not useful, but I’ve seen a lot of people say that who I’m pretty confident are wrong.