Fearing AI, I was reluctant to use ChatGPT. But friends, it changed my ADHD-hit life | Van Badham

Newly diagnosed with ADHD, I've outsourced task prioritisation to the robot in my phone'. It does not judge me

It's easy to be convinced that the myriad applications of AI pave a fun but nonetheless alarming digital path towards doom, doom, doom.

Let's start with slop". It's the term now in use for AI-created graphic content pushed out on social media to attract eyeballs - and, in doing so, channel engagement - using spectacular, surreal images, the kind that can digitally mash Jesus with prawns in photographic detail. My Facebook feed heaves with ads for 80s trash sci-fi, shiny polyester shapewear and cream for smokers' wrinkles; I suspect clicking stills" of Star Wars Episode 1 in a Ken Loach universe may be to blame.