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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] homes@piefed.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

no. in that instance, search would have been sufficient.

but if that answer came in the form of tens of thousands of fragmented answers delivered over hundreds of thousands of forum posts/replies made over the course of 35+ years, then AI is able to parse all of that in seconds rather than making me do that over the course of, possibly, years (or just giving up long before then)-- and that's a process I've already been through many, many times before over the decades.

no, if I can just save a bunch of time and simply ask Claude and get a reply that will not only give me the solution I need, but also explain to me exactly why the problem existed in the first place and why the solution works, then the AI is working is a positive way that's worthwhile.

[–] sqw@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i think that is pretty much not happening under any conceivable circumstance.

[–] homes@piefed.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But it has. Repeatedly. And it often continues to do so. There are few things that contemporaneous AI truly excels at, but that’s definitely one of them: aggregating disparate information into condensed information summaries and drawing logical conclusions based off of that disparately assembled information. especially when that information is technical in nature.

And managing to do so all while teaching me all about the subject matter at hand better than I would’ve learned it by mucking around blind on my own? Amazing.

Did you even bother reading the previous comment that you replied to?