dubcrab

Spot on. Big difference between using AI as a tool to fix real problems - where it shines - and using it to clone art. Art needs a human with something to say, some lived experience to share. Maybe it'll get a real voice one day, who knows. But we aren't anywhere close.

I wish I could run models locally. I just don't have the hardware for it. So I rent access to one that still works well enough and hasn't annoyed me yet. But "yet" is doing a lot of work there. The article is right that the trend is worrying. You're at the mercy of someone else's cost cutting and someone else's political compass. I just can't afford to opt out right now. That's the part that stings the most.

NotebookLM is genuinely useful for structured research workflows. My concern is not the name. It's whether the "notebook" metaphor survives the rebrand.