People around me use AI all the time to get answers to generalized topics. More and more they use it like a search engine / information augmentation system.

They are not technical people. They mostly know that the information needs to be double checked and might be wrong. But usually take it in face value if the importance is low.

Honestly this is about what they did before. They would search Google, click on the first blog, take it as the word of God, and claim to have “done their research”.

I too use AI regularly for brainstorming, quickly summarizing massive text messages people send me, etc.

I don’t love it or hate it. In some cases it saves a lot of time and is useful tool. In other cases it outputs trash that we cannot use for any serious case.

Just like a hammer or a shovel, it’s a tool. Can be used the right way and it can be used the wrong way.

I’m sorry, but all the use cases you listed show that you’re just lazy. Stop it. It’s embarassing.

I’m lazy as fuck. I want to solve problems in the easiest way humanly possible. With the least amount of effort output.

What about you? Do you take the hard way?

I’ll be real with you, I typed lazy but wanted to type idiot. Read your fucking emails Jesus Christ. You still have to check all the shit generative AI writes because it lies constantly. It’s very nature does not understand what it’s generating.