I love a good reason to ding on AI, but I think this ain't it lol. I mean, there's nothing entertaining about AI agents, so obviously it's not going to be blowing up like TikTok or Insta. Well, except I can guarantee you there's some college students on the more lewd side of it 😛 But for work/school, AI usage is kind of everywhere, at least I've heard many talk about it. Students use it for homework, and to cheat, and most white collar will use it somehow, heck restaurants and other small business are using it as well. Maybe not full blown agentic loops, but does that matter?
I think Nilay Patel explains this very well: https://www.theverge.com/podcast/917029/software-brain-ai-backlash-databases-automation - his concept of "software brain" is spot on and applies here 100%
The feature cannot be disabled per channel, as far as I'm aware. And even if it were possible, it probably wouldn't be something worth doing.