> The output is not enjoyable to consume, the people who rely on it are not cool, and the effects of using it are unpleasant and hard to defend on aesthetic, intellectual, or moral grounds.

The AI output you are referring to mostly seems to refer to “AI slop”. It’s not hard to argue that AI slop sucks.

There is a lot that AI does that has created joy for me or people around me:

- whimsical profile pics for online profiles for me, family, and friends

- writing e-mails for community groups — good for a family member who doesn’t have the most sociable writing style

- automating data capture and organization

- automating scheduling with multiple and variable constraints

- catching obvious errors that somehow still happen (e.g., off by one errors)

- filling in gaps in analysis either due to gaps in knowledge or simply an oversight

These are sample of things that I have done or helped people do in the past week, and the results have been well-received.

Maybe I’m part of that solution that you propose, but I have used words similar to “biggest change since…” (I usually say spreadsheets, but I don’t think “Industrial Revolution” is wrong).

Fwiw, I don’t think the result will be dystopian the way most people seem to think that it will. I firmly believe that meat space interactions will gain much more traction, and that will change the way we live and work.