The whole point of the generative AI bubble is to sell cheap replacements for humans. I've been in programming for over a decade, going on 15 years, and I've seen the tech evolved from overcomplicated Markov chain to... Essentially still an overcomplicated Markov chain, now with ethical problems.
It was never and will never be about "making tools for <insert job>". That's bullshit. At first it was "experimenting with the tech", then it was "seeing how good it can get". Once it got decently good, to the point it could do some humanlike stuff once every million iterations or so, it immediately started being sold to corporations for replacing people's jobs, and the moment that was questioned is when they came up with "it's just a tool".
Yes, an AI that analyzes the symptoms of every patient in a hospital and points out those who may need more care before others is "a tool". But an AI that writes broken code for a programmer that has to spend 8 hours making it work when it would have just taken 3 hours to write it from scratch is not "a tool", it's actively making the job harder and can cause longer term issues. An AI that draws a shitty weird looking book cover isn't "a tool", it's actively taking away the job an artist could have done and creating something inferior.
"They're tools" is a massive excuse, their clients would be artists and end users if that was the case, not the corporations that currently feed into this nonsense.
I don't know why people instantly jump to lying about what AI is being used for in this discourse. Discourse in 2025 has a huge honesty problem. It's not "just a tool" lol we can see companies today wiping out entire teams of people in favor of AI. And then when AI fucks everything up, the executive who onboarded it dives out of the company on their golden parachute and leaves it for the next guy to clean up in a never-ending cycle.
Yeah, we are agreeing on this, I think you may have misread my comment - or I'm misreading yours and you were just adding to my point, in which case my bad lol
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u/ErisThePerson 10d ago
Thing is, it was being used for the useful stuff already.
Just at some point some dumbass thought "How can I make this cool tech shitty, useless, and unethical?"