And yet some people do.

The idea that a robot which pretends to be your friend might satiate some people’s desire to have a friend is not that deep a cut. It’s barely even interesting.

I’m sure it’s a lot of things. The bottom line, though, is that the fruit is too sweet. And so you get a dynamic very similar to veganism, climate change, health-conscious eating, anti-smoking, etc., where people want to behold their fruits without feeling like they’re villains for it—criticism of smoking is to criticise a person for smoking as well, you see? It becomes like a moral failing of their character. It’s just insecurity.

Bitcoin didn’t really catch on because, besides money laundering schemes, it doesn’t really have a purpose. But AI has lots of purposes. It eases the burden of writing, it can do your homework for you, it’s a better search engine because google sabotaged their own, it can generate DnD assets for “free”—and lastly, this is a really big one, it fills an emotional niche in lonely people.

I can’t promise that in a world where people didn’t live their whole lives in suburban houses, in small bedrooms, on their computer all day with remarkably few friends, that people wouldn’t take to gen AI as much as they do, but it’s certainly not helping.

Oh, I understood the sentiment just fine. I’m asking why it’s unintelligible. We’ll ban hammers so that people won’t need head stitches…?

So long as we’re doing petty jabs, maybe you should have run this run-on sentence through an AI grammar checker.

*points at clown* “You look like a clown!”

That’s a good one, mate. I’ll have to remember that.

No, I don’t converse with demons. A machine speaking falsehoods and lies in my holy tongue? Disgusting.

I said serious translation work. What, are you translating the german memes on ich eil?

You know people who use google translate to “speak spanish” are made fun of? It can’t translate puns. I cannot imagine using this for any serious translation work.

I do to, it always ruffles a bunch of feathers.

Jarvis, explain what the hell this means.

This is what I’ve been using for years -> https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose

I’d looked up a score card first and there were precisely three checkboxes for extra, succulent, 100-point-scoring yahtzees. What I don’t know is if this is a limit of the paper or of Hasbro’s imagination for crowning human achievement.

What, we can’t have a little poetry? Is fun illegal now?

The em dash is just something you can use to diagnose the “AI-ness” of some text, the same way a cough could mean a cold or it could mean something else. You don’t need to be self-conscious about it.

Somebody else replied with the video that popularized this bit of insight.

If you were playing yahtzee, and your opponent only rolled sixes, would you not say anything? No, no, rolling a six isn’t proof of cheating—that’s… that’s ridiculous.

Also, don’t tell me you need to roll more than sixes to win yahtzee, I don’t know any other dice games.

I can still tell these two paragraphs apart from the other one because of its voice. God, the chatgpt voice is tacky…

and only distracts and detracts from actually good critiques

No, it doesn’t. You just want to be able to pick from your buffet of cake flavors without it being morally complicated. Gen AI is demon technology made by demons, and those demons deserve mockery and ridicule. It should be impolite to be this anti-social.

Mate, humanity is not going to make it if we can’t learn to sympathize with and protect each other. I’m sorry your life is hard. It’s not a god damn contest.

What industry are you in, anyway? If you don’t mind me asking.

Okay, not sure how much this matters considering where the world is heading, but:

If they can’t get better working conditions because you’ll complain (it’s not fair, yadda yadda), how will you get better working conditions when they complain (it’s not fair, yadda yadda)?

I’m just saying, if you’re not willing to play ball, why should I care about your sick pay?

Medicaid is gonna burn up soon. Should I be concerned that you’ll be losing coverage, or are we just fully on board with this petty individualism?

That entertainment is labor. What are you talking about?

They give analogies elsewhere about buses blowing big fat gas loads in front of SUV drivers, so if this is what they’re doing at all, it’s only because they’re floating between opinions, happily landing on whichever one happens to be more useful.

I believe they would say both are insignificant—but also!—video games are worse, so… you know, if you think electricity waste is bad, really you’re the problem, hippie.