I'm kinda done trying to have some sort of anti-stance with this. AI reminds me too much of smartphones, where anybody who didn't have one was an asshole, ignorant stupid old person blah. I held out on a smartphone for something like ten years, just because they were pricey, I had my dumbphone and PC, I didn't need one. Eventually you just couldn't do adult business effectively without one and there I stood with an iPhone 4 when 3G was getting ready to disappear.
Everyone does nothing but piss and moan about their phones, now, all the "normal" people have been sucked into the vortex that created the "neckbeard", and we live in a dystopia where everyone can't seem to leave the house without their government tracking device. It didn't matter at all back when they were hot and new, every kid had to have one and now we're fucked.
It's the same with AI. People jumped on that shit scary fast, I think GenZ was desperate to have something that felt like "their" technology. Once I heard the scientists acting like people were stupid for being anti-AI, then I knew it was over. The upper-middle-class has spoken, all you can do now is decide to get treated like crap. Capital wants AI, and what baby wants, baby gets. They have learned to whip you with your own children to make you obey.
My favorite use for Copilot is using it to translate normal declarative sentences into that awful passive-aggressive language they use in offices because they just can't have the terrifying confrontation of, "I put all that information in the last email, please read it again." It's really good at that because it's been trained on everything you've probably ever sent though Outlook.
That shit's an arbitrary class barrier, so it's good that you can use Copilot to translate sentences into White Woman to learn office talk the way I can use SpanishDict to translate my English into Spanish and back. There wasn't really a way to do that before, and now you can study it and learn it so you can deal with the fucked up social requirements that go into a job that pays above the median wage.
Otherwise I have no profitable use for it. I desperately need to learn one.
So yeah, start using the shit out of it or get kicked out the airlock. Sucks for the artists but capital wants change and you've already lost. Yeah, I don't really want to get good at anything, either, if this thing's just gonna suck it up, take my skills and make me go work at McDonald's anyway after decades of dedication. Love how technology empowers like 2/10ths of the people and throws most of us under the bus, again and again.
