Yes, @paradigmprospect - these are very disturbing times, and make me question a lot more, what I'm interacting with online; thank you for your insight. 🌟🙏🪷
I've been shocked & saddened greatly by how many creative friends are leaning over the precipice into this deep chasm of dependence on AI for their thinking and making.

Another friend recently showed me clothing designs that AI had 'created' 'with' her - and when I expressed my extreme aversion to anything AI-constructed, she detailed how frustrating the design and drawing process was for her.

By this logic, any challenge in our growth, any discomfort (if I am not mistaken, a core driving force behind our self-improvement and/ or spiritual development??) would be sidestepped - so that we can...... what??!? Save time & energy?? To do what?? Be more numb, stupid and useless, when faced with our next natural challenge arising??! I fear the latter: a large group of folks heading further and more rapidly into that utter dependency on the artificial. Bleuch!

So glad to be a free-thinker and sentient high-quality Being - and to know others like yourselves who question such things!! ❤️‍🔥🥰🌷😊🪷

We are going to hopefully buy a car very soon, and so may be able to meet up again imminently!