Technology

AI can do some cool things. But is anyone measuring the quality of the output vs the real costs (I mean real total costs, not just your investor and environment subsidised free tier or small subscription) and effort of the input? Is it real inteligence, or just like a plastic doll that says “I love you” when you pull it’s string? Just good enough for small kids to suspend their disbelief for entertainment, companionship, and help in learning social skills.

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“We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit” – Cory Doctorow. First platforms are good, then they abuse their individual users to make things better for their corporate users, then they abuse the corporate users for profit, then they die. It’s destroying the internet to ensure better short-term shareholder returns.