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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…

To be fair, there have been many prominent people who have told me directly and repeatedly that AI is useless and they think I'm crazy/stupid for believing otherwise.

Wasn’t “generated at scale” always part of the concept though? To me the more striking drift is from “bulk content meant to fool only robots or the elderly” to now including one-off works by humans who took pains to pass the work off as purely handmade.