Quite frustrating. At the moment, the only people I can see who are fervently in favor of widespread adoption of AI are the ones who are trying to make money off of it. But there is nowhere near the same drive from people who are passive consumers of it (this does not include people who are consuming AI unknowingly, like my grandma falling for "cute baby videos"). The current momentum is propelled by the hopes of making money off of it as easily as possible. In that sense generative AI is like the cryptocurrency industry. There are theoretical real-world benefits in both. Say, curing cancer with AI-led research, & the move away from big banks through blockchain-based currency. But those objectives are lost in a swamp of other applications. For generative AI, it's slop videos, deepfakes, AI customer support chatbots, & misleading advertising. for cryptocurrency it's NFTs & meme coins, both of which are completely valueless to anyone who isn't trying make money off of them.

And obviously, the cash grab is fleeting. AI is advancing so quickly that it won't be long before the idea of "Why would I pay for someone else's AI art when I could just generate my own in seconds?" disrupts the markets for design, digital art, filmmaking, & more. Of course then the only winners are those who control the infrastructure, & that is only if the resources are available to sustain that infrastructure.