I use Claude and chatGPT a lot and I've realized that in the past three or so month of using the models their outputs have honestly not changed, the results are always the same, no change in contexts, no capabilities to understand unique query and all that, but the models keeps getting expensive even though they're not getting better or smarter.
AI as we know, gets a lot of hate from people because of it's inability to actually replicate the natural intelligence of a human mind, and even though it's been only a short while, billions of dollars have gone into the training and development of AI.
Currently they can do a lot of things that are straightforward or black and white like solving maths and coding problems, but they cannot reason, apply context or a sort of intelligence that makes them better, and this is why they're currently still hated.
This is why people hate the usage of AI, because it's not perfect, it cannot replicate human work, and because a lot of people are still very lazy to use AI well, they still find it very hard to actually to do tweak AI to do the job, and they just want to use AI to replace human reasoning and efforts even though AI is currently not smart enough to do that.
Will it be good enough?
The question I always ask is that will AI actually be good enough to replace people, and even if it is, will it still be cheap and accessible enough for the common person to pay for?
I'm not exactly sure. The first time I used AI I was really perplexed at what it can do, but the more I started pushing it, I started noticing that I needed to pay a lot of money to get that premium result, I paid for a few tools and even as at that.
I still think their results are not as good as the money you pay for it. I saw an AI film recently and the owner of the AI film would have need to spend about 1000$ each to produce one film, and you might argue that it's cheaper that having a full production, it still won't be good enough to be widely accepted.
A lot of people will still call it SLOP, not necessarily because it's sloppy, but because they're still living in the age where they think anything not created by humans from scratch is SLOP and this is probably why the mentality will not change anytime soon.
There are a few people in the US, Australia or Canada who automatically labels anything that's not humanly produced as slop, and that's because they think before anything can be considered original, it has to be manually created from scratch, and all that.
Accepted or not?
While the correct usage of AI changes SLOP to premium, a lot of people will still not accept AI, and people will continue to get the boot for using AI even if they use it rightly.
I don't know if this will change anytime soon, I mean I've seen people being racially abused because they used AI to create some part of their work, they get a lot of hate on the internet and this gets out of hand everyday.
I recently started exploring AI to create part of my workflow for YouTube, and I paid heavily for it, and the results were honestly below average. I've ditched the AI workflow and actually started creating my stuff organically, and even though the workflow is hard.
I think I understand why people wants to automate their workload; they hate the work, love the result but like the money.
Make no mistake, a lot of people are getting rich using or integrating AI into their project and workflow. Some of them have spent a lot of money to get the needed results are now making a lot of money.
So AI integration is not completely horrible in different places, some workflows are excellent, and that's it, others are not and completely sloppy.
Verdict?
This is why I've concluded that you need premium AI integration to get results that are not sloppy, and guess what? You'll need a lot of money to get it done. Not having enough money simply makes your usage of AI looks sloppy and this is the difference between average AI users and a premium user.
But there are still areas where AI usages falls short and this has to do with comprehensive, contextual and intelligent reasoning.
AI will definitely not be as intelligent or solve problems uniquely and emotionally as humans no matter how expensive they become, but my verdict is that it'll become expensive enough to get close, but will probably only be accessible to only those who can actually pay.
