The AI discussion is heating up and all I can say is that people feel threatened so their first reaction is "To Hell With YOU!!", and I can understand that. But it is ridiculous and delusional to think that you can prevent AI content or that you even should prevent AI content.

Most of these discussions I find useless and don't even want to take part in because I can see how little most people even understand about how generative AI works and to what extent it can be used. I understand that the dumbest thing you can do with tools like ChatGPT is "write me a post about pottery". What do you know about pottery and how are you going to be able to communicate with your audience if they have some specific experience-based questions and arguments on that topic? I feel that posts like that won't receive many rewards anyways.

There's a whole other level of using ChatGPT where you do the research on the topic feed it data and then use it as part of your team to write a compelling article about it in a way that's engaging and useful to readers and also because you researched the topic yourself you can continue the discussion with your audience outside of that. If that isn't valuable, what is, right?

Not everyone is born a writer, nor do they want or can learn the skill of writing to the level of capturing attention and satisfying as many readers as possible. But that's the thing. Now they don't have to anymore. They can nerd out on the topic they enjoy and research all the details that others miss because they aren't looking that deep into it and the AI only helps you express that to others. I don't see the problem with that myself.

The future is here, those that embrace it will thrive, and those that still want to live in the past will be in a forest or jungle or idk. Nothing wrong with that, but this is how it goes, and always will.