I think what is missing on from the conversation is the generational question.
In general, once new technologies have been introduced, there has been the older generation who has been sad about it because they have the frame of reference on the previous way of doing things. However the new generation does not know anything else, and are often happy enough since the lower-dimensional new reality is their only reality.
Same thing has happened with fast-food, social media or psychologists in your phone. You have a generation grown up with nothing except for it, and dont know anything else, and hence are as happy as they can be with the options.
I don’t know if that can really be applied here. I don’t know if any previous lessons can be applied here.
Every one of these past innovations has been removing manual labor from something - be it household chores, traveling, having to build something, etc.
This innovation is aimed at replacing both thinking and social interaction. Putting aside whether you find that exciting, terrifying, morally objectionable, etc. it’s just too different of a paradigm shift to predict.
I'm in my mid 20s, far from being a grumpt old man, and I used to frequent Facebook back in the early 2010s (remember all those games?)
What became clear is how the landscape is filled to the brim with scammers and grifters. These newer applications of technology are akin to cigarettes, or heroin, or opium. They're designed to inflict misfortune for profit.
Years ago my parents would chastise me for spending too much time othe computer/phone, now I'm the one begging them to uninstall those garbage applications from their phones.
Around me, more older people than younger ones are susceptible to lies and scams perpetrated by LLMs.
The younger generation around me (kids 10 to 17 yo) are falling for the same traps I fell for when I was their age, and people my age are stil falling for: addictive online games with scummy lootboxes (especially Fifa) and gacha games.
I believe there are more than enough studies detailing the extreme negative consequences of Instagram and/or tiktok usage, so much that we don't question that anymore, and treat it like ye olde tobacco addiction. It's addicting and fucks up your health but here yo stay.
You are already past your formative years. Imagine if you were 14 today, and you knew nothing else than BetterHelp, or psychologists in your phone. You would not know that there is an alternative, and would never feel the human connection with someone understanding you, you wouldnt have the point of reference, so the shrink in your phone would be enough. I am in my mid-20s as well, the argument is about a world-view that is shifted. Same with dating. In 10 years, it will perhaps be incomprehensible for kids to understand how people were dating before their AI-profiles selected the best match.
Society moves faster with faster technological innovations, you will feel like an old man faster as well.
In general, once new technologies have been introduced, there has been the older generation who has been sad about it because they have the frame of reference on the previous way of doing things. However the new generation does not know anything else, and are often happy enough since the lower-dimensional new reality is their only reality.
Same thing has happened with fast-food, social media or psychologists in your phone. You have a generation grown up with nothing except for it, and dont know anything else, and hence are as happy as they can be with the options.