"Cool, I found a good use for AI, this tech can really save time!"
If you're arguing that generative AI has both good and bad applications, but your main reasons for finding it positive is that you found some personally useful applications - for example formatting or summarising content - I don't feel you're considering enough what the concepts of good or bad entail.
I'd argue that the definition of good is not that it benefits you at the same time as many others are harmed.
If your personal benefit, formatting content much faster than before, comes at the expense of escalating carbon costs, unregulated child labour in hazardous mines and PTSD amongst AI gig workers, I would argue that calling this feature "good" is a stretch.
The bigger picture is a hassle to consider but I don't see how it could responsibly be ignored.
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