This illusion is what made the current AI hype possible in the first place, and it is now causing humanity to take steps backward rather than moving forward. Yet AI technology could be used fairly and very effectively if it weren’t marketed exactly as it is: as a machine that supposedly enables everyone to do things they don’t have the slightest clue about.
This is what has made social media so profitable, and it’s also the reason why LLMs aren’t being used the way they should be, but are instead being sold as artificial intelligence to idiots who don’t have the slightest clue about the subject -not about what it takes or how long it takes to write a book, paint a picture, write a scientific article, code a secure application, or whatever.
The profit motive has turned the internet into the opposite of what it should have been, and AI technology has consequently ended up as an instrument of power in the hands of a small number of people who are incredibly narrow-minded but, unfortunately, also incredibly powerful due to their boundless greed.
It is the general public that bears the brunt of this boundless greed.
If things continue this way and we look just a few decades into the future, this is exactly what will spell the end of humanity, since profit is always prioritized over the common good.
The idea that you can do anything you set your mind to can be an incredibly useful motivator. It still requires meaningful action to accomplish your goals, but it can help people be more willing to expand their own potential.
What’s harmful is the idea that asking an AI to do something for you has any relation to you actually doing that thing.
Sure, absolutely, you have to believe in yourself but you have to put in the work too, there are a lot of temptations to take shortcuts but I promise you the art will suffer. I guess it all depends on your end goal, now there are artists and people who want to make money from art and it seems like the later group is now bigger which is a shame.