I think there is a plateau to how far things can escalate in practice. The limitation is ultimately how much information humans can process throughout the day. It’s also worth noting that we’re already drowning in propaganda and junk information right now. I’m not sure that additional saturation of the information space will fundamentally change things.

And I agree with the unethical side of how models get trained, especially in the case of proprietary models. I would argue this is more of a capitalism problem than a technology problem though.

I imagine that in the end people are still going to specialize, and they will leverage these tools to automate a lot of tedious work in their professions. It’s never been the case that new sorts of technology and automation led to stagnation. The opposite is generally the case where there is a huge explosion in creativity and invention.

I do think that societies like China will make much better use of this tech than the west will though because there is a central direction over how the tech is used and what it’s directed towards.