They’ve had a tremendous impact on software development, which is not exactly society.

For society more broadly, what I’ve seen is a bunch of white collar workers under threat (real or perceived) of losing their livelihood, and a huge uptick in the amount of interference I’m having to run as my family members get taken in by a wave of increasingly sophisticated scams and phishing attacks.

The only impact I see on my family and friends is a proliferation of daft pictures and realistic-looking nonsense.

At work I see an increase in people spending (wasting?) time trying to make it work reliably for their inputs.