>They're not only useful for programming, it's just that programming is by itself a trillion dollar a year industry. This, by itself, is sufficient to not be th

>They're not only useful for programming, it's just that programming is by itself a trillion dollar a year industry. This, by itself, is sufficient to not be the scam you assert it to be. Yeah, if you think I'm being overly literal. Regardless, people here were positing, yourself included, that they are widely useful. > Bluntly, over my lifetime, I've heard "AI will never/not in my lifetime do X" repeatedly within a year of it doing X, for many different X. It's Again, over my lifetime, I've seen it been told to me that the next iteration of each model will surely be the one that does away with my entire profession. Yet, again, here we are, firms at my door, begging me to use their tools. >Artists are unhappy, not only because it rips off their work, but because businesses that were previously hiring them now use it instead. No, they are unhappy because it rips off their work. You're totally wrong about that.