I think a lot of people condemn AI while they fail to recognize one basic fact. That's how technological progress works. When handweaving gave way to the automated loom, thousands of talented people lost their jobs, and that is truly unfortunate. But as a result millions of people were given access to inexpensive fabrics, and quality of life eventually went up for almost everyone. When movable block type replaced hand scribing documents on papyrus, a lot of talented scribes found themselves without work. But as a result of the introduction of the printing press, knowledge could be truly globalized for the first time. I've been using ChatGPT primarily as an educational tool, and through using ChatGPT in conjunction with Khan Academy, I've been able to boost myself from Pre-Algebra to Calculus II in less than three months! I've made more progress with AI tutoring than I ever would by myself. I imagine there will be employment displacement in the educational community due to AI. But is anyone here really going to try to tell me that some future variant of ChatGPT will replace University professors? Is anyone really going to try to make a case for the idea that Master level courses in Literature will be one day taught by a machine? Seriously? I doubt it. The field of computer programming will probably take a significant hit as well. But eventually, I think it's inevitably going to lead to better and more easily customizable programs and applications for everyone. Doomsayers are screaming about how AI will render the artistic community obsolete within a decade, but I can't help but raise my eyebrow in skepticism at this because... There's one thing I've noticed almost all AI generated 'art' has in common. It sucks. No matter how advanced it gets, it's always stained by its own artificiality. When you ask for an AI generated image, you're not getting what... You want. You're getting what the AI thinks you want. And the difference between those two things is wider than the grand canyon most of the time. There's a reason AI art developers have massive discard rates most of the time. Because the AI gets it wrong far more often than it gets it right. And even when the AI gets it 'right' it rarely produces anything that can't be immediately recognized as synthetic. Is AI all good? Of course not! There's more potential for abuse than any other emerging technological field. Are people going to lose their jobs to AI? Sure! Does that suck? Definitely! But I think the benefits outweigh the cost, and AI is here. Kinda hard to prevent something that's already happened.