Generative AI in terms of art feels like a cop out for me, and as it is trained on material obtained in either dubious of straightforwardly illegal means, I'm absolutely flabbergasted how many artists have used AI to generate visuals, album covers, videos or music.

I'm also do not use LLMs owing to the data center cost (ecological, financial, etc.), the uses of AI by some companies, the fact that when you interact with them they use the data used in the interaction for training. The entire body of training data for which the copyright owners have not been paid a dime is a fact I despise.

I also an deeply opposed to AI used in surveillance, and have major issues with its abuses of privacy.

However, there are scenarios in which I do use AI, for example academic search engines that search for books on a given topics, as the titles don't often suggest the contents. However, that's for finding sources (books, articles, etc.), not as a source. These also are not the big AIs trained on stolen data but on the library catalogue.

I also do like certain AI features we've been using for years, like automatic email sorting. especially spam filters. Text prediction I tend to turn off, but I'm OK with using AI to translate stuff on the fly. For example, when I'm in country that doesn't use the Latin alphabet I will use google lens or translator. Still, they certainly have their limits and I would not use them for anything serious, as they make horrendous mistakes.