Im very depressed over all this, to me it feels like all the beauty of the world has been sucked out, or at the very least blanketed in so much noise its impossible to discern.
That's our predicament in modern society - and I mean "modern" as in the obsolete value system and culture that produced the shameful century of world wars - that is stealing our dreams and choking the future of humanity. We didn't learn the lesson the last time fascists took over the world.
The message of the story was that imagination is our hope, it has the power to create new futures from the ruins of the old and the past, to bring forth new life from the dead.
Being a now hobbyist programmer, AI is just fun for me chatting with it, throwing structs and snippets at each other, but boy am I reading some horror stories about what it does for jobs, working conditions and code quality. The thing is, its just humans making great inventions and then as usual, fucking everything up with them.
Now imagine how depressing the industry is when you don't actually agree that this stuff really works. People are tripping over themselves to replace human craft with a tool that can't even do the job properly. It's so awful to watch.