This excerpt is from the conclusion of the article, but I highly encourage you to read Evelyn Woods’ “The rise of Whatever” in full:

What’s being sold to us is a machine that is promised to do everything. That’s far beyond a tiny question like “should you know how to manually focus in order to take a photography” — it gets at the notion of thinking about, or doing, anything at all.

I don’t think anyone is obligated to do anything in particular. If you don’t want to draw, or write, or compose, or program, or whatever, then don’t! That’s fine.

But I think the core of what pisses me off is that selling this magic machine requires selling the idea that doing things is worthless. Because if doing something has some value, then it must be somehow better than pushing a button and receiving Whatever for essentially no cost.

If you’re some assclown like Sam Altman, whose graph-go-up depends on convincing you to replace all your employees with ChatGPT, you have to destroy that idea. It is the greatest threat to your business model. You have to destroy the idea that things are worth doing.

Do things. Make things. And then put them on your website so I can see them.

Source: The rise of Whatever