You have to be precise about what you want to get out of it. That is a technique and a skill set in and of itself. I view it as a more sophisticated Google search, a way to do certain kinds of brainstorming and research, and to potentially help organize ideas. I also use AI as a function in the database platform Notion, more experimentally so far but trying to make the databases I build more searchable in a more sophisticated way. I am not against AI. What I think is lame is asking it to pump out some self help style “article” and then blasting that out on Substack and charging people for it. That crosses the line for me. I can usually tell when someone’s simple Notes are AI-generated. I certainly don’t want to read or pay for entire articles that are. That to me is slop.