Imagine taking the lightweight, privacy-focused appeal of Linux and completely ruining it by hardwiring AI models straight into the OS. Nobody is switching from Windows for more forced AI features.
How about digging a ditch with a hand shovel vs. using an excavator? About a hundred years ago, you would have hired a bunch of men to chop down a forest, and dig ditches so that the land could be turned into a field. Digging the ditches was hard work, but excavators changed that completely. What used to require 10 strong men and a week, could be done by a single excavator operator in an afternoon. The result is still pretty much the same, even though the bucket of an excavator isn't quite so precise. You still get the job done, but most of it was done by a machine. Should that one guy be proud of the work? Sure, it didn't take much time effort, and to him it was probably just afternoon like any other. A few months later, that gig begins to blend in with hundreds of others like it, so it's not going to be very significant to him. But can you still be proud of your work?
Similar kinds of shifts have happened before that, and the industrial revolution in the textile industry is clearly the most famous example of that. I'm thinking AI in similar terms, even though the details differ. There's still enough to compare. They both produce trash if you skip quality control. They both reduce the amount of time and effort required. The cheap trash is sold on Temu and dumped in the landfills of wealthy countries. Same process with proper quality control results in all sorts of nice products you would never find on Temu. I think the same logic applies to AI generated things. So far, we've seen plenty of Temu grade trash, AKA slop. There's no reason to be proud of that.