I engage with the anti-AI crowd a significant amount, but my own life looks very different. Both my parents are power users of ChatGPT Pro, including the actual pro models. They've integrated "prompt and wait 20 minutes for the best result" into their heuristics, and are living totally different lives than the anti-AI crowd. My Dad is a lawyer, and he uses it to bolster his own practice on his own. He is extremely spiritual, in a much different way than I am, and he sees Chat as a sort of blessing for his work. It lets him go up against teams of lawyers he couldn't have faced alone before, because he isn't working by himself.
It's easy to forget about the impact our work has on the world, especially when much of them are telling us how awful it is. But they're wrong, and I mean categorically wrong. This technology, these new minds, it is a beautiful thing. Universal access to this is genuinely the greatest humanitarian project ever conceived. Any question, answered. Good advice and company on tap.
Even disregarding my own thoughts on the exteriorization of the imagination and diffuse consciousness throughout the cosmos, even if you believe chatgpt is only a tool like my parents do, what a tremendous thing to have built. Let's not lose sight of that.