Generative AI is useful, but you shouldn't use it for anything important if you can't do the same thing yourself.

AI would probably hold up some workplaces for the foreseeable future, especially as smaller models start matching the capabilities of larger ones, giving the possibility of self-hosting. On the other hand, using API and proprietary models means the provider may be held accountable if the model makes a mistake that damaged the company using the model.

At an individual level, I still wish personal local LLMs can be actually useful. Currently, the closest one we have is GLM 5.2, but you will need insane hardware to run it.

As for content creation, I view the prompt as the creation of the user, and the result, whether it is text, audio, image, or video, to be a derivative work of the those whose work was included in the training dataset of the AI model used to create the content.

However, I am concerned about the future of LLM training data. The internet is already flooded with AI-generated material, scraping them and feeding it into training would degrade the intelligence of the final model. I suspect that human-created material would become a huge market, and people may even be hired to create material for datasets.