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It was obvious scam I completely agree. It can still stay around tho. As example, imagine people between middle-school and college. A good 95% of the current students cheat using AI tools.
They won't ever go "well this is immoral so I will learn 2 whole years of material before this homework due next week." They will convince themselves they alone use it responsibly or pretend to quit gradually instead
But only way to stop is suddenly and nobody will do that. Students will just continue using chatgpt and spending money if they have to in order to keep their GPA.
A similar thing with AI recruiters and AI corporate art and so on. It will continue to be hyped and there will be at least one advancement in the field followed by people convincing themselves it's making a comeback.
The people you describe are about to be royally rogered when, not if, the AI bubble bursts and all the chatbots die.
Is that planned on the same day hell freezes over?
It's not "planned". It's "inevitable".
ALL of the chat bots are massive money sinks. The only reason they're still in operation now is because stupid people keep pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into investments that can never pay off. At some point one of two things will happen:
Once, either way, investment ends, the chatbots will be gone, leaving nothing behind. Because nobody (in a statistical sense) will pay the kinds of outrageous costs it will take to run things like ChatGPT for the marginal value such garbage machines bring to the table. They can't continue without the money-burning class feeding them. They will die off and the healing of the dead Internet can eventually begin.
I appreciate your optimistm, but I won't hold my breath.
There's absolutely nothing optimistic about it. They aren't a government that issues their own currency. They can't keep burning cash.