The point being i’m not going to be using it again.

My experience of using AI: Creating something from the bottom of my heart and putting in hours of fighting against its default weights to get it barely presentable, then spending even more time to fix all the imperfections to the point I may as well have just done it myself, only to have everyone I show it to freak out at me for using AI and assume that I’m falling to the technocapitalist dork side. Like I was bored and wanted to fuck around with the latest thing, i’m not going to all of a sudden start firing my whole staff or shilling for cryptocurrency. I don’t even see it as a tool, it’s a toy, and not a very good one at that. Maybe good for a novelty but it wears off extremely fast.

This reeks of astroturf. That’s a lot of effort to put into saying absolutely nothing of substance. I cannot assume in good faith impartiality.

It should be illegal to post screencaps of ChatGPT without alt-text. You can’t control-F a jpeg.

Extremely good take, especially with what has come out about google’s workplace culture.

Corporations treat free software as an endless pool of free resources to exploit, pollute, and then shut down.

Put it this way: The company putting out the product creates an ethics board which warns that the product is too good should ring alarm bells.

Asking because someone in another forum basically said that while IQ might be discredited, “g” is valid.

That’s got huge “it hasn’t been disproven, yet” energy. That’s basically the “it’s not illegal” argument but for ideology.

I once went to a professional to get a website done (as my ability (read: patience) to code websites had proved inadequate) and they constantly tried to upsell me on just the most stupid bullshit. When I pointed out how a lot of moving parts just means more things that could possibly break they blew me off and acted like it was a completely unreasonable concern. Needless to say ended up using a website builder instead and despite a few small glitches it works pretty well with JS completely disabled.

EDIT: I was particularly concerned with how heavily they were leaning on JS, to the point it flat out wouldn’t load at all for some users. Having JS flair is perfectly fine on the side but when you can’t even get fucking text to load without it, that’s a problem.

My advice of “stay away from anything a youtuber tells you to use” is becoming more and more vindicated every day.