When you have a headache, do you avoid taking ibuprofen because one day it may not be available anymore? Two hundred years ago, if you gave someone ibuprofen and told them it was the solution for 99% of the cases where they felt some kind of pain, they might be suspicious. Surely that's too good to be true.
But it's not. Ibuprofen really is a free lunch, and so is AI. It's weird to experience, but these kinds of technologies come around pretty often, they just become ubiquitous so quickly that we forget how we got by without them.
If that happened at this point, it would be after societal collapse.
Every now and then I pause before I ask an LLM to undo something it just did or answer something I know it answered already, somewhere. And then I remember oh yeah, it's an LLM, it's not going to get upset.