Those early anti-auto laws and protests only lasted a relatively short time (mostly a couple of decades), because once automobiles became more affordable and practical in the early 1900s, adoption exploded so fast that resistance basically became irrelevant.
Is it pointless to resist?
Like the Borg said … resistance is futile.
AI is following the same pattern: it’s been quietly evolving for years, but now that it’s affordable and accessible to everyday people, it’s spreading too fast to “ban” culturally, so the real conversation needs to shift from trying to make others stop using it, it to using it responsibly.
But each person does get to choose how they use AI. But trying to apply a blanket ‘no one should use it’ rule across the board just isn’t realistic or reasonable.
From a business owner perspective, AI is going to be used by other business owners. You cannot stop this. That doesn’t mean the person making the comment has to use it. They just need to understand that them choosing not to does not mean others must also choose not to.
AI is built for efficiency. Choosing not to is literally leaving TIME on the table, when the use it strategically and thoughtfully. And time is money for every entrepreneur.
Using AI right vs wrong
There can be a LOT of benefit to adding AI into your business … except entrepreneurs have been using it wrong.
They have been using it to *create art* for example … when artists should be creating this.
They have been using it to *provide expertise* … when experts should be providing this. These guidelines aren’t about morality or ethics either; just literally what AI is and is not proficient with.
There’s a huge difference between the people who are using AI to replace artists (and poets, and authors … and marketers which is one of the stupidest uses there is lol) … and people who are using AI only to enhance what they are already personally already doing.
Smart entrepreneurs understand the difference.
If you had not made the simple graphic in AI, you would have made it in Canva, which is a TEMPLATE. Less personal creative involvement there, still no artist benefitting monetarily. At least with AI, you have to personally be creative within the prompt that you give it. In Canva, zero creativity needed.
