I agree with what was said above about now being the Wild West era of AI (though I abhor the name "AI" due to how misleading it is). Things are going to be clamped down and heavily centralised and sanitised, just like how the Internet has gone from the early 2000s to present-day. It'll probably be an even briefer period of "anarchy". Therefore you should download your own local clients and make as much smut as you want while you can
Societally... I don't know. While many jobs will be impacted (perhaps artists most of all), there's a lot that the generative AI can't do. It's not truly flexible. It can't really fact-check or discern that something might not be altogether there. It's very useful though. A force multiplier, as was said somewhere above. I believe there'll be a time where there's a broad move towards AI-ing a lot of jobs and functions, then people realising they've over-corrected and they'll try to hire people back into the fray when they realise the deficiencies of the technology. The tech's definitely gonna improve for sure, but I'm not sure that it will be able to overcome the core issues.
Anecdotally, I've used chatgpt as a tool for my own personal writing. If I'm not satisfied with a part that I've written, my typical approach is to look up examples of how other people might have described such a thing, or if I can recall having read something like that, I'll go dig up the original book and reference the phrasing/metaphors. As a shortcut to the former, I paste the paragraph into chatgpt and tell it to rewrite the text. Then I mash the rewrite over and over and over again to get a sense of how else I can approach the description, and I'll crib off if I see something satisfactory. Sometimes the output is really awful, but the main benefit of doing so is helping me "de-rigidify" my language by seeing how it can be changed.
Also sometimes, I want a synonym for a concept or phrase that's on the tip of my tongue, and google is woefully incompetent in providing synonyms for non-singular words, so chatgpt is good on this front too. I don't really use it to correct my spelling/grammar/syntax though, I take personal pride in those.
I also work as an editor and it's painfully clear when something is written by chatgpt (though sometimes I wish the authors would use chatgpt, it's unbelievable how poorly some people can write). It seems to have a voice of its own that I can't quite pin down, but I usually recognise it when I see it. Its phrasings aren't quite... organic.
Last point on the censorship front, I have a profound distaste for censorship of any sort, so yeah I hate that the softwares are being restricted, though I understand why a commercial enterprise would do that. I could at best accept censoring out swear words (though maybe just put asterisks through them), but the way it neuters everything outside the box of political correctness is dogshit. Even something as innocuous as asking it to rephrase a scene where someone gets stabbed will result in it lecturing me about how violence is bad. Stupid moralising in addition to censorship is just... infuriating.
