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It doesn't sound like it used to be any better. Maybe we don't need to complain about AI destroying things that already sucked, like billboards or Linkedin.

Enough of this passive aggressive quoting. If you have something to say, man up and say it.

It's becoming a central tension of our time: people want to create with AI but don't want to be downstream of anyone else creating with it.

It's a failure of the mindset that now that almost anything can be automated, it will be automated. Often as cheaply and carelessly as possible.

Excessive automation is terrible, yes, but also people choose their actions and the accountability stays on them.

Are you making the argument that surrendering general thinking, problem solving, research, and creativity is nothing more to be concerned about than no longer memorizing URLs and p…

"Reuters analysis finds map image carries OpenAI watermark"

I don't know why that premise was ever accepted. The same tool has been used for both good and evil since rocks and sticks.

I don't even understand the mindset of the question. It's like asking, if ingredients were added to the recipe, why did it get worse?

They realized they need to keep one on staff so there's someone to fire if/when AI does destroy the world.

I read his take as not that "we've solved prose", but that we've created the McDonald's slop food version of prose, and people who are undiscerning will cause it to succeed and dom…

Exactly. Hypertension, emphysema, people who don't smoke not wanting to be anywhere near you,

A big reason that political discussions here get so silly is because so many people here believe that the world can/should work like code, and that the right algorithm/data structu…

Displacing a vast amount of labor is what makes the numbers make sense. We don't know if they'll succeed or not, but it's obviously what they're chasing. In addition to actual lost…

The best concert I ever went to was one I only knew about from a TV commercial. Somewhere along the way I started blocking ads and commercials aggressively and in hindsight I've no…

The tech giants owe their success to people accepting this new business model in which revenue can scale without the company having to scale headcount proportionately. In other wor…

Most people don't want to think any more than they absolutely have to.

My idea of an alternative to a modern phone would not let Meta/Google anywhere near it. I'm curious how many people would go out of their way for this kind of hardware but still us…

How could you think that anyone would argue that arbitrary doses of any medication are safe? Drinking too much water will kill you.

You're never going to watch it, but you're waiting for it to be on Netflix? You can start not watching it already.

It's hard to believe that in the late smartphone era there are people who think they're not online enough already, and want smart glasses so they can be even more online.

Something I appreciate about Samsung phones is that having a Samsung account is completely optional. I've never had one. If I accidentally click on one of the dumb AI features I'm …

Steam gave me similar problems. In the process of trying to get in for the first time in a while to delete my account, I completed a successful 2FA but still couldn't log in becaus…

What could be more representative of this community than the hubris of believing a simple algorithmic change could fix something that's actually deceptively complex and better off …

People are so desperate for this to be true. Maybe it comes from a subconscious recognition that their own self-imposed deskilling will inevitably catch up with them.