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I don’t think there’s a single serious critic who says AI’s not useful? The concerns I see are about content rights, worker impacts, environmental effects, epistemological threats, or media manipulation. But that’s all predicated on the idea that it *does* work, often too well for people to manage…

not only is it not useful, LLMs rot your brain

I do not think it rots people’s brains to say, “I’ve got these ingredients in my fridge, what could I make from them” and get a recipe. Like, there should be safeguards! But I don’t think autocomplete in our IDEs rotted our brains either.

That is a function that Epicurious/Bon Appetite had 20 years ago.

Or, that specific use case is actually not that useful. If it was, the previous specialized feature would have been used more often. This hits exactly at the reason the supposed utility doesn't stand up to the massive costs / negative externalities for society.