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This is where I’m at too lol.
Oop you’re totally right! Bit close to home. :)
“A system where those with money can multiply is” sure sounds dystopian to me.
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They were also designed to addict adults, just saying.
If you type in “Hi, how are you?” and go back and forth between English and LinkedIn Speak a few times, it winds up with “I’d like to sell you something.” Pretty accurate.
> Cope and cognitive dissonance
To be fair, AI probably wrote the blog post from a short prompt, which would explain the lack of detail.
I wonder how much of the site was AI-generated. The images definitely are (kids with different numbers of fingers from each other in the same picture lol).
Your posts in this thread have said exactly what I was thinking
Same here about distrusting pieces that use AI art. It’s like… a signifier of something hard to describe — values, qualities — that makes me want to listen to someone’s point of view less.
This has to be parody, right?
I try to always work on something that’s contributing to something I care about in the world. I find that motivation is less of an issue if there’s intrinsic value to the work I’m doing.
For me, the "bloat" issue is less significant than the way that Electron apps don't have native macOS controls. They feel like a web app in a window, and attempts to emulate macOS-style controls just feel like…
I thought exactly the same thing! Been a long time coming…
I was laid off in December… from my job researching the origins of pandemic diseases and developing mitigation methods. ¯\(°_O)/¯
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This is where I’m at too lol.
Oop you’re totally right! Bit close to home. :)
“A system where those with money can multiply is” sure sounds dystopian to me.
Comment of the week
They were also designed to addict adults, just saying.
If you type in “Hi, how are you?” and go back and forth between English and LinkedIn Speak a few times, it winds up with “I’d like to sell you something.” Pretty accurate.
> Cope and cognitive dissonance
To be fair, AI probably wrote the blog post from a short prompt, which would explain the lack of detail.
I wonder how much of the site was AI-generated. The images definitely are (kids with different numbers of fingers from each other in the same picture lol).
Your posts in this thread have said exactly what I was thinking
Same here about distrusting pieces that use AI art. It’s like… a signifier of something hard to describe — values, qualities — that makes me want to listen to someone’s point of view less.
This has to be parody, right?
I try to always work on something that’s contributing to something I care about in the world. I find that motivation is less of an issue if there’s intrinsic value to the work I’m doing.
For me, the "bloat" issue is less significant than the way that Electron apps don't have native macOS controls. They feel like a web app in a window, and attempts to emulate macOS-style controls just feel like…
I thought exactly the same thing! Been a long time coming…
I was laid off in December… from my job researching the origins of pandemic diseases and developing mitigation methods. ¯\(°_O)/¯