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I think one helpful trick when thinking about AI hype is to replace mentions of "AI" with "Blockchain" to see how silly it all sounds.

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[–] morto@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago

That works because since there's almost nothing objective about the usefulness and applications of ai tools, those announcements are written in such a generic tongue (maybe even written using ai?) that words can be replaced by another and change nothing, just like that