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I don’t think there’s a single serious critic who says AI’s not useful? The concerns I see are about content rights, worker impacts, environmental effects, epistemological threats, or media manipulation. But that’s all predicated on the idea that it *does* work, often too well for people to manage…

Kevin Roose@kevinroose.com

The NYT Magazine asked me and @caseynewton.bsky.social to open their AI issue by talking about how we use AI, why it's not going away, and how you can't be a serious critic if you're in denial about how useful it is. Bluesky's gonna love this one! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

That may be true! But that’s a separate point. There are people in my mentions saying it’s not useful, which is an argument that’s going to fail on its face when someone says “I just want something that will save me time figuring out what I can make for dinner without having to run to the store”

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Everytime I’ve input my ingredients just now, ever option has included ingredients I didn’t input and do not have. So your argument, in practice 10 minutes ago is still “not useful” I can open a cook book or simple google “recipes with xyz ingredients” and get the same options