AI-coholism

With this matter, I hope I actually shan’t have more to write about. But this thought needed to be written out (only if to unload it from my head). For some reason the current state of affairs around “AI” reminds me a lot of alcohol. Mind you, it’s a useful substance (as a solvent or a disinfectant), some people may even use it in recreational purposes or to deal with stress—but there are always some people abusing it, often for no good reason, and giving bad name to it all. Also there were countries whose budget was largely dependent on alcohol over-consumption but that’s less important here. The situation with “AI” assistants looks entirely familiar: some people use it responsibly and even achieve useful results with it, but it’s usually other people (a loud but hopefully still minority) who abuse such tools to the point they get high with imaginary power and behave themselves as typical drunks: some boast how much they can consume (tokens or pints of beer), some vomit…