The only two viewpoints on generative AI that get any play among tech punditry are:

1. AI is a lever that helps people do better
2. AI is effective automation that will replace people, or be a threat to them.

The third viewpoint, that AI tools are kind of shit and, if used in their current form at scale by corporations and governments, will “enshittify” large portions of our society, doesn’t seem to register with them at all.

@baldur
the whole business landscape is set up to encourage everyone to take the first barely-viable shitty version of a thing and make it absolutely ubiquitous to the point of choking out all competition forever rather than to wait another five years making a good version first