Accusatory

Using generative automation for things is quickly becoming a cardinal sin, and this is leading to an interesting social media phenomenon; calling people out for using generative "A.I." as a means of leveling a criticism without actually engaging with whatever it is that's being presented. It is, in effect, a form of ad hominem.

I suspect that it's a form of the Liar's Dividend, although not in a manner that I saw coming. While it does seek to sow distrust of others, it's not about the quality of the information itself, as had usually been noted. Here, it's a form of moral accusation, one the serves to disqualify the writer from further consideration of their ideas. I'm curious to see how long it lasts: Is this something that the Millennials and the cohorts that follow them will carry with them as a generational habit, or is it simply a fad that will fade away as the technology does whatever damage it will do, and then simply becomes part of the background noise?

I think, at least for now, it will be the latter. Most people today don't strike me as being committed Luddites (in the original sense of the term); they're not likely to give up things they want, or give up some portion of an attainable standard living, simply out of opposition to the technology that enables it. Once whatever is going to happen happens, there will be no profit in standing athwart history shouting "Stop!" Even in a race to the bottom, no one wants to be the last one to cross the finish line, and while generative automation may be worth complaining about, if younger people were any more likely than Generation X or the Baby Boomers to pay more money that necessary simply to support their ideas of the way the world should be; well, the world would look very different now.