I'm very much into AI, in terms of judicious and sprinkled usage across disciplines -- but I'm a computer guy, I produce and support a lot of code, art, audio, video, social, multimedia etc content, and I've incorporated bits and pieces of AI here and there to achieve a vision or get work done (LLMs, diffusion, etc) -- my main issue with it, like anything technical, is that the mainstream interpretation / instinct by the average bozo is that the machine will do my work for me, and nothing could be further from the truth.

There's a lot of anti-AI sentiment from the mainstream, but I'm noticing the pro-AI mainstream sentiment comes from people who are either technically-minded grifters looking to deploy automated solutions to snake $$$ from people's pockets, or lazy / disengaged worker drones who just want the computer to do their middling work for them. And it will, up to a point, where your "work" plateaus into a mess of predictable, non-novel banality lol, unless you invest the time to master the tool (which, for what it's worth, isn't like introducing the toothed saw, it's more like a Dremel or a SAWZALL that have specific purposes but casual users won't ever master them)

Buying a digital ELPH in 2001 didn't make you a photographer unless you were a photographer with an open mind. Squarespace doesn't make you a web designer unless you've studied the system and understand the tradeoffs. AWS doesn't solve infrastructure unless you learn how to architect a solution that works for your use-case. AI, by the same property, is shit until you research how it works, experiment with solutions, and find novel workflows to get something out the other end that's new, fresh and exciting.

Companies just rolling "AI" into their products aren't gonna win over customers and users unless they use the tool to deliver something of exceedingly-needed value. If it's a short-term grift or "hail mary", good luck! You'll need it!