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I like when AI is a place you can go to try something out or to experiment with something.
I like AI as a toy.
I hate AI that is crammed into something or some place that I don't want it to be.
I don't want AI-generated summaries of a web search.
I don't want AI-generated articles.
I don't want AI crammed into every surface of my computer.
What I want is people to use AI to help solidify an idea while it's in the experimental brainstorming stage, and then to take those things that they've made with the AI, and then turn them into a real human-generated thought process-aligned output, be that an anime, or a story, or a web article that ultimately uses as little of the original AI-generated thing as possible.
It's a tool, not an artist. It's a tool, not a writer.
It's a tool. Use it as a tool.
I agree the most with that you called it a toy. It's fun to play with.
In very limited cases, it can be a tool - but I've asked GPT5 to summarize complex policy documents that I know inside and out and it gets a huge amount wrong or just makes things up.
It's getting shoehorned into business when it is nowhere even close to the functionality and accuracy it needs in that space.
And worst of all, it's utterly destroying the web. Half of what I find in search results these days is AI slop with that baby's-first-essay writing style and weasel words aplenty.
It has a few applications in small, targeted tasks, but on balance I think businesses are vastly overestimating its utility as a productivity tool.
It's super useful as a tabletop GM.
It's great for illustrations (like a character or shop interior or something) where I want to give players a gist of the vibe, but it's not something significant enough to commission an actual artist.
It's also great for generating story beats, NPCs, names, encounters. Generally I make a lot of changes, but I'm way better at modifying something that exists than coming up with something out of thin air, so it works well for me.
The important factor is that I use it purely for entertainment content. Confidently incorrect misinformation isn't really a problem for strictly fictional applications.
The prevalence in non-fictional, non-entertainment applications is somewhat concerning.