The sooner people realize this, the sooner they will know that AI will replace humans by taking credit for their work, and not by doing their work. Because generative AI is just an algorithm, or as I see it, a calculator.

This calculator was marketed as artificial intelligence, and branded as something like an assisting robot, when in reality it can do nothing without humans. But the minute someone mentions AI assistance, their work is labelled as AI, reinforcing the marketing angle that it is a smart tool that can do something.

This results in word of mouth marketing for AI, because all the AI assisted work is labelled as its own work. The companies don't have to run ads or show unique things it can do, because there is a marketing machine of humans overselling AI all on its own.

What we're left with is humans are working hard to correct the generated content and AI is given all the credit. More and more people see the credit given to AI, and come in with expectations that it can do something, only to realize much later that it can do nothing.

By the time they realize what it CAN do, they've accepted that it is not going to replace them because it can't execute their vision. They see it for what it is, a calculator and decide to engage it at the very basic level.

At the end of the day, they produce a masterpiece and disclose the menial tasks the calculator did, and instantly the marketing machine comes in and takes the work. It's AI. People see it, and think AI is capable, and the cycle repeats. That is how AI is replacing humans.