It might be "useful" as in "it has a non-zero number of use cases", and still being massively overhyped (orders of magnitude in my opinion).
I guess there are use cases for it, even if we discount undisputed net negatives like the proliferation of slop online, scam calls, deepfakes, etc. That doesn't mean it provides an amount of utility that justifies pivoting a significant portion of world capital and production towards that end.
It will never be AGI, by the way. We are way past the inflection point of the logistic curve, so this is more or less what it is.
I guess there are use cases for it, even if we discount undisputed net negatives like the proliferation of slop online, scam calls, deepfakes, etc. That doesn't mean it provides an amount of utility that justifies pivoting a significant portion of world capital and production towards that end.
It will never be AGI, by the way. We are way past the inflection point of the logistic curve, so this is more or less what it is.