@milesmcbain@fosstodon.org @pbrane@sigmoid.social @jenn@pixel.kitchen Mmm... radioactivity is a better parallel. Put into everything without any idea if it was safe because it was fashionable. And turned safe things into very unsafe things. Radiation had some practical uses. This latest stuff is snake oil. Voice replication - fraud Video creation - revenge porn Website creation - Scams Essay writing - plagiarism and misinformation at scale Ad campaigns - more plagiarism It's great for criminals and not paying people.