I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now

I think that the appearance of generative AI with its seemingly magical abilities to unleash the creative beast lurking inside all of us has broken our brains a little bit and it has become difficult to think straight when it comes to the intersection of the technology and humanity and what being creative involves.

Every post I see about how I simply must use AI more and more in my workflow, if I don’t want to get left behind, further convinces me that I probably shouldn’t, if I want to have any chance of standing out.

I guess I’m a little more LLM-skeptical than your average geek, but I read the list of features and thought: Would this sort of thing accelerate my mobile-device-upgrade latency, which at the moment is around three years? Um, no. Anyone’s? Still dubious.

Quite possibly I’m wrong. Maybe there’ll be a wave of influencers raving about how AI/GG improve

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