Comments - Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI

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The last thing the world needed was more crap content, and yet somehow that’s the great invention of the last five years: a machine that prints crap. They're desperate to obfuscate and bury the truth under mountains of bullshit. It won't work in the end, but it might delay the end. That's not exactly accurate. AI can also be used to do good things, help people be more productive, and produce good things. I can use AI to economically produce graphics and videos for my business; I can use AI to help me make products for my business; I can use AI to help me be faster, more efficient, and more productive. AI can be used as a positive for all manner of things. It's not “the greatest invention of the last five years: a machine that prints crap.” It's that for every good and productive thing that AI can be used for, it can also be used for an equal amount of crap. However, that is how it is with anything man has produced. For all the good things the Internet is and can be used for, it can als

What?! No, that's... kind of an 𝗮𝘄𝗳𝘂𝗹 post — lots of errors, lots of needless invective, and some odd turns of phrase; I'd argue that it is, therefore, 𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 brilliantly-argued 𝘯𝘰𝘳 beautifully-written. To wit: → "Do you think all the people who killed themselves after being put out of work by automation in the early 20th century, or their families, would agree these were positive developments for society as a whole?" Mechanization of food production has saved many, *many* more lives than it cost — there was hardly an epidemic of suicides, but even if there were, take a…

Comments - Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI

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