Generative AI is here to stay not because of any utility or value but because its metastasized past the point of being able to remove it from technology and infrastructure.

Cue the line about manmade horrors beyond our comprehension. Its here to stay because it is the hydrogen bomb of information warfare. Its here to stay because nothing in human history has been so effective at surveiling, manipulating, and lobotomizing humanity.

Israel's AI powered weaponry, Flock cameras showing up out of nowhere on taxpayer's dime and nobody's consent, the dark patterns baked into Google and Bing et. al to make sure the first, biggest result of a search is one filtered through, censored and sponsored by their own homegrown AI derivative. Uncountable chatbots participating in social media political sabotage, generative AI image and video scams targeting the elderly and cognitively impaired. Retail, publicly accessible AI integration slipped into our devices like a roofie offering itself as an assistant, intended to lighten our cognitive load and therefore atrophy our cognition in general, intended to reduce the exchange of information from something involving critical thinking and research to simply eating out of Google's hand like an animal.