What I find really frustrating about the present moment is — if you say something like “It is not a good thing for airplanes to be enhanced into birds by cameras”, you get all these people coming out of the woodwork saying things like “Boy, if you think that your phone wasn't changing your picture before AI, you are really mistaken” or something.

It's true that cameras do an immense amount of processing of raw data in order to make it look like something that resembles our memory of the event. Putting aside the fact that a some of this processing actually is excessive and makes photographs look weird, there's a huge qualitative difference between that kind of processing and something that adds feathers to an airplane or inserts a new picture of the moon.

It's the same as when we talk about generative AI and people say things like "Guess calculators are destroying the brain too huh!!". It's such a Low Brain Energy take.