TLDR: I never use Gen-AI. Not for code, not for images/video, not for audio, not for text.
AI is such a meaningless term on it's own and can refer to such a wide spectrum of different things.
The AI most people think of these days is LLMs (Large Language Models) such as ChatGPT, Midjourney and the like, also known as Generative or General AI. I think these services are not only wasteful but actively harmful. I believe the people financially incentivised to promote them are knowingly pushing them to applications they are not suitable for, and promising a future they know this evolutionary dead end can never reach.
That's before you even get to the mass theft of culture and the amount of money being spent trying to replace artists. Can you imagine a world where the same amount was spent on artist grants/training.
It's telling that the same people that were previously grifting NFTs are now fully in on AI.
In contrast I'm excited by the applications of Narrow AI, focused machine learning trained for specific tasks.
