They will. The AI fad however…

Come on, anyone with half a brain cell can see that AI isn't going anywhere. Sure the excitement might die down but we're not going back to pre-AI.

This is like those people that thought smartphones were a fad.

Anyone with ⅑ of a brain has already realised AI isn't going to replace anyone other than people who have the word "AI" under their name on linkedin or ycombinator.

AI has already replaced people. Just not very many... yet.

I found this in a few seconds of searching: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ai-replacing-artists-heres-p...

Anyway that's off topic. It doesn't need to completely replace people to not be a fad.

And yet it's immediately evident to anyone when a website is using AI "art" and it looks completely pointless.

That's a little like how people still don't like CGI in films though...

We can't un-invent LLMs, but it's less about excitement and more about practical use cases - there are fewer of them than commonly believed.

I think you've arrived at the nuanced answer: AI absolutely has changed things, but probably not in the all-encompassing way that various proponents or corporate marketeers would have us believe.

Didn't we hear something similar about computers?

You're right — on both sides. The people that said computers would automate everything were overstating them. At the same time, c'est la vie travel agents. Some jobs truly are gone.

I feel like there's a modern dark-comedy film in there where a guy in the 90's gets a journalism degree only to find the industry collapsing with the internet — so he trains to switch careers to taxi driver....