@Mr_NutterButter which side is which side, in your opinion? i'm definitely someone who views things more through the spiritual lens but realizes that the material world still exists and is home to our spirits.

personally, i think AI has some great uses as long as it is curated by humans. when it is just left to run amok it's absolute garbage. for instance, for image generation, if you want something that actually looks really good you can be looking at hours of your time spent tweaking prompts and generating things until you find something pleasing. for things like code, or answers to questions, it can often just be flat out wrong and you still have to have a certain level of knowledge to know that it is wrong to begin with.

i also see AI as being a sort of "genre" in of itself when we're talking about entertainment. the best examples of that have a great degree of human tweaking behind them, such as the artist Glorb who uses AI character voices. it's really not that far removed from Vocaloids.