The worst thing about modern AI isn't that it's ruining the web, search results, books, online product reviews, news, and so on.

It's that it sucks all the air out of the room.

Even if you're working on some other tech, the comments are polluted with questions about how AI will be leveraged. When you explain that it won't, the next question is how AI might affect what you're working on.

It's like a mind virus, infecting nearly everything & everyone.