It is your presumption that holds no basis. People spend least effort only within their predefined value system; your fallacy is extending this to a purely materialist stance and closing off any other. I’d love to see your mental gymnastics on why I refuse to use a smartphone, despite it clearly being “lower effort”.
That’s how it’s marketed,
How humans market AI is not value-neutral and those values do not become an innate property of the technology.
and that’s why it’s being used.
That’s awfully reductionist. There is a reason machine learning took over in natural language processing – it is because it turned out to be the better tool for the job, over having billions of hardcoded branches. Plenty of effort went into this development, and I applaud it despite its consequences.
Like I already said, it is true that most people use and develop AI for degenerate reasons, but no, saying “generative AI is low-effort” is not a value-neutral statement, it just reflects your own values on the matter. I gave examples above of where generative AI would not be low-effort. In the case of replacing artists or actors, or delegating everything to an AI agent, it would be low-effort.
Either way, we’ve have both said enough on the matter. I have an actual life to tend to, rather than to argue with nobodies on a dead forum, and I’m sure you do as well.