of AI users being dumbed down by AI as they choose to let AI think for them. And having AI tell you where to shop makes you an ideal target for advertisers paying AI companies.
I don't need to use AI for ideas. But if I wanted to see examples of other people's ideas for landscaping, for instance, it's easy enough to search for them and find examples on lots of websites showing real examples from real people. Websites that the AI might have ripped off for the ideas it offered you. Websites whose continued existence is threatened by AI, both because the bots scraping websites add to costs, and because the websites are being deprived of traffic and ad revenue.
What has that got to do with being "delusional enough to want to use it to pretend to have skills I don't have, or knowledge I don't have,"
You let the AI do the landscaping design for you and list the supplies and where to buy them. You didn't bother to get any idea of how many possibilities there might have been for design options, materials to use, plants you could have used. You let the AI tell you what to buy and where to buy it. You let the AI filter what options you had.
Did it save you time? Sure, the same way it saves time if a student is given an assignment to write a story, and they ask a chatbot for ideas and then have the bot fill in more and more of the writing.
It lifts the "cognitive burden" AI peddlers tell people they should want lifted. Let the bot think for you. Let the bot shop for you.
I suspect you could have come up with an equally good design on your own - something that was really personal - and learned something about design and plants and what garden furniture is available in the process. And had reason to feel really proud of what you'd achieved.
But I guess if anyone compliments you on the landscaping, you can tell them AI did it, but at least you picked out which of the designs the AI offered you as options.
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