I own a marketing agency. I have a team of 8 copywriters, 5 coders, and 5 designers who all use AI to do their work. They use it to do research. The use it to troubleshoot and diagnose. They use it to do outlines. they use it to analyze. They use it to find patterns. They use it craft written content. They use it to design graphics, charts, and images. We are still figuring things out, but with our written content, no one--not human or computer-can detect we use AI to help come up with the content. This is because we don't let the AI do all the work. We say we are humans using a tool called AI. We divide up the each part of the creation process into many pieces so that we are engineering powerful content. Our visuals still sometimes look like AI sometimes, but we ae getting better at it. Eventually, if we don't fail as a business and keep serving clients well, we will never need stock images and every client will have unique branded content in whatever style they want and it will look as if it were done by professional photographers or Hollywood studios.
My business my fail, but my point is that with AI, folks will master it and begin to emerge as experts and leave behind the rest. Figuring out the prompts and programming and mastering the tools will combine with the natural talents and drive that go along with the usual capacities that create success. Yes, I see horrible things in AI, such as hackers, censorship, spying, powerful viruses, and corrupt marketing that steals data, but I also see powerful, personalized, and deeply detailed, and unique art and content coming that will blow our minds when we experience it.
AI has its limitations. It is not alive. It is not sentient. But, it mimics how we think, and so it will feel so alive and feel so real that we will experience technology in a way that will be like entering another realm. Its as if we are making our own multiverse. Is that a good thing? I don't know, but I know its a great thing and great things are sometimes terrible things.