To defend generative AI as being a "tool" is to misrepresent useful tools which are made for particular purposes as if they were found objects, incidentally useful in some situations.
Like a butter knife as a screwdriver in a pinch, it's taking the adequate instead of the optimal.
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Stephen Farrugia
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