A key -- perhaps THE key -- remark here, IMO is the following:

> I do want to make things, and many times I dont want to know something, but I want to use it

This confesses the desire to make, to use, and to make use of, without ANY substantive understanding.

Of course this seems attractive for some reasons, but it is a wrong, degenerative way to be in the world. Thinking and being belong together. Knowing and using are two dimensions of the same activity.

The way of these tools is a making without understanding, a using without learning, a way of being that is thoughtless.

There's nothing preventing us from thoughtful, rigorous, enriching use of generative ML, except that the systems we live and work in don't want us to be thoughtful and enriched and rigorous. They want us pliant and reactive and automated and sloppy.

We don't have to bend to their wants tho.