Taking a blob of Silly Putty and smashing it down on a comic strip in a newspaper doesn’t suddenly make a person a cartoon artist. Telling an AI chatbot to “make me a picture of…” doesn’t suddenly make you a graphic artist. Telling an AI chatbot your concept of a new web app and having it spit out the code that you can upload to a web server, doesn’t suddenly make you a programmer, either. The sad truth is, your favorite AI chatbot isn’t suddenly making you special!
Have you noticed that the majority of all documentary/how-to/educational videos on YouTube now are nothing but AI slop? Most of them are horribly done and are chock full of mis-pronounced words and names. Absolutely zero talent is required to make these videos. You just copy & paste text from Wikipedia into an AI narrator, download the MP3 file and import it along with a bunch of photos into a video editor to make a slideshow. BAM! You’re now a content creator!
So-called vibe coders are equally as bad. They take full credit for code that AI generated, but they couldn’t debug it or expand upon it if their life depended on it. Ask them to show you the code where a specific feature exists and they can’t do it because they didn’t actually write it. Yet, they tell people that they’re a programmer. LoLz!!! Yeah, right, you’re a programmer, just like the old lady that used to program her VCR and learned to store station presets in her car radio.
Everybody and their dog these days has a plan to make as much money as possible with absolutely zero effort, and the worst offenders are those who are dead-set on becoming a social media star. The problem is that the majority of these people have no actual talent, so they try to use AI to create their content. Congratulations, you’re now doing the same thing as millions of other people and making less than the teenager next door who flips burgers part time.
Meanwhile, I know a guy who retired early from his job with the county to do custom framing (photos, art, collectibles, diplomas, mirrors, etc). Easy work, he now makes 6 figures, but the job requires actual talent that can’t be replaced by AI. Same goes for another friend who has a lawn and parking lot service who also does window screen replacement. No AI can replace his business because it requires actual talent. Yet, people settle for $50 a month from AI content.
Don’t waste my time showing me what you “created” using AI, you didn’t create shit. That’s no more credible than a cat walking around with a mouse in its mouth while it’s still stuck in a mousetrap. No, it’s not a tool either. If you say it is, then let’s see you do the same thing with manual hand tools. You actually need skills and talent to use tools, they don’t negate that requirement. Making somebody else do something for you just demonstrates your own inabilities.
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