While at this point, I'm not one for the "skynet" view of things, but that may change, the one thing that I do worry about is the loss of knowledge. Even users that know how to do things the more manual/semi-manual way are noticing a slow down in various endeavours, be it art, code, music etc.
This isn't a new thing however. As more and more automation has come, users that mainly have known the automation and not really what is going on behind the scenes. Which is fine if everything is working, no bueno when it isn't. How many people only know live/power trace or whatever the auto conversion is known as? While that isn't even what passes for "AI" right now, it's along the same level of abstraction. That's why there is so much crap product out there, but unfortunately, it's been around long enough that that is what most people are used to, even "professionals".
While it puts out horrid output now except for the most simplistic of things (kinda like auto trace), there may be a chance that it gets better, but have to remember, there is enough "AI" generated content out there, that it's actually "learning" from itself. That also isn't good, especially if it's learning off the bad output.
Some things may be good ideas, it's the implementation of said ideas as to if this is a good thing or not. I don't think that it is. There is no thought in how to do this in such a way that everything matures along together appropriately. It has some very good potential, but again, the devil is in the implementation and like with a lot of things, this just isn't good.
It is nowhere near up to snuff (crap even MS is forcing their employees to have to use their "AI" tools, that should tell one something, 40% of code that MS puts out along it's various products is "AI" generated, now it may take awhile, but we have seen major regressions in quality of products from various companies that are heavily leaning into "AI"), but it's already rampant where people are learning and I'm afraid that that's all that they are going to know what is going on behind the scenes. Granted, I'm not against automation in itself, but I firmly believe that people at least at some point should have gone through the teething pains of the manual/semi-manual way of doing things, that way they aren't dead in the water if something isn't going the way that they need it to go and can't get a fix otherwise.
But I could just be an old curmudgeon yelling at the clouds. Ironically, I like tech, I like creating my own tools to make my life easier, but I also firmly believe in doing things at least the semi-manual way. I don't like to be beholding to any one specific tool, why I have always avoided Adobe (or any brand that I use) specific specialty tooling, made it much easier to switch if something went down that I didn't like.
