I don’t hate AI itself, but the amount of AI slop ruining the internet gives me a negative feeling about it whenever I see it. I used to enjoy fucking around with the early pre-2021 GANs, diffusion models and GPT3 playground before ChatGPT was around and actually liked the crazy dreamlike nonsense they made, but now it all feels like dead soulless crap getting used to replace humans. Probably going to get super downvoted for admitting to ever liking AI image gens lmao
I agree the most with that you called it a toy. It’s fun to play with.
In very limited cases, it can be a tool - but I’ve asked GPT5 to summarize complex policy documents that I know inside and out and it gets a huge amount wrong or just makes things up.
It’s getting shoehorned into business when it is nowhere even close to the functionality and accuracy it needs in that space.
And worst of all, it’s utterly destroying the web. Half of what I find in search results these days is AI slop with that baby’s-first-essay writing style and weasel words aplenty.
It has a few applications in small, targeted tasks, but on balance I think businesses are vastly overestimating its utility as a productivity tool.