I had this idea the other day concerning the 'AI obfuscation' of knowledge. The discussion was about how AI image generators are designed to empower everyone to contribute to the design process. But I argued that you can only reasonably contribute to the process if you can actually articulate the reasoning beyond your contributions. If an AI made it for you, you probably can't, because the reasoning is simply "this is the amalgamation of training data that the AI spat out." But, there's a realistic version of reality where this becomes the norm and we increasingly rely on AI to solve for issues that we don't understand ourselves.

And, perhaps more worrying, the more widely adopted AI becomes, the harder it becomes to correct its mistakes. Right now millions of people are being fed information they don't understand, and information that's almost entirely incorrect or inaccurate. What is the long term damage from that?

We've obfuscated the source data and essentially the entire process of learning with LLMs / AIs, and the path this leads down seems pretty obviously a net negative for society (outside of short term profit for the stake holders).