None of them feel like tools, at best you have to force them to be that, but are still really bad at it, see vibe coding and “AI-assisted” or higher effort AI images.
It’s also like they skipped a few steps too. I think an actual synonym search could be way more useful than a sycophantic chatbot built into my text editor (wonder if something like that already exist). At least in case of animation I heard some frame interpolation tool actually made for artists got trashed due to their makers wanted to hop onto the still in-infancy full-on generative AI bandwagon.
However I have to give it to them when it comes to amazing outsiders. They often already thought digital art or composing on the PC was something like what the AI was, only they didn’t know what button to press.
I was already thinking it is a kind of belief system.
Otherwise all the grandios claims what AI can do would be checked carefully, like, you know, in science. Trying to falsify hypotheses. And for extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary evidence.
But tech had already a tendency for cargo-culting.Things like “agile” practised like a religion. Tech companies acting like a cult. Free speech, critical thinking, or democratic decisions in a company? That would be communism.