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[–] ElfWord@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

This is such a weird take.

Oh poor baby, you need a wittle spell check to make sure you don't mess up the words in your important email?

Oh little loser, you gotta have an automatic transmission to make the car go vroom vroom?

Oh Mr. has-a-life, you have to pull out Shazam instead of knowing 8 million songs by heart?

All of us use technology to make our lives easier, to supplement skills we don't want to sink perfectionist-level time into, to enjoy "good enough" results in one area or another.

This kind of holier-than-thou hyperbolic snobbery does nothing to generate actual thoughtful reflection of where to draw the line with technology dependence and only distracts and detracts from actually good critiques of generative AI's ethics and other negative effects. I wish this sub didn't allow low-effort meme posts because it's such a brain rot circle-jerk.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

You said something here that is pertinent, but also revealing. We all use technology everyday to make our lives easier, but does it? The automatic transmission cited above allowed anyone with a pulse the ability to get behind the wheel of a car rather than putting in any effort to acquire the skill to operate a motor vehicle. Great for the people who built our car-ciety, we have all suffered for it, including inaccessible essential services w/o one and getting stuck in traffic caused in the most part by people who should never be behind a wheel of a car. Do you want people writing books and creating art that have no business writing books or creating art? Cause we've got that now. Great...

[–] vorpuni@jlai.lu 5 points 3 hours ago

I don't think automatic transmissions are in any way responsible for car centric urban planning, Europe has plenty of it and the transition to automatics is very slow and quite recent.

I agree far too many people are allowed to drive when they shouldn't but people dying on the road is more socially acceptable than stringent standards for being allowed to operate lethal machines at insanely high speeds (in terms of kinetic energy at least).

[–] ElfWord@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

We all use technology everyday to make our lives easier, but does it?

🙄 Yes. If you disagree with something this obvious, please write me a lengthy letter explaining why and send it by horse & buggy mail carrier. I promise, I'll read and respond just as soon as I'm able.

Do you want people writing books and creating art that have no business writing books or creating art?

🤮🤮🤮 Maybe we should require an intelligence test before allowing people to post their opinions on the internet too? Or have children?

If you actually think that disallowing some people to create art because they aren't "good enough," then you aren't really defending art or artists at all.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world -1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The point is we value people who are at the top of their specific game for a reason. When the barriers to access are removed, that's great, but it dilutes the end game product over all. Sorry not sorry. Easier lives makes dumber people I guess? Boy that's so cool! I get it, busy people can use AI to make their days less busy, but people who aren't too busy are using it and getting dumber for it. Prove me wrong. Yes technology has a myriad of benefits, but also a myriad of pitfalls too. Weird, eh? I'm not disallowing people from making art, but no one should or would buy it in a real world environment. I would ask, what value does it add to the world? Art is an expression of the artist interpreting the world. AI art is rubbish and it gives you exactly what you ask for. Cool? Maybe, but not art.

[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It doesn't do that at all. People creating great art isn't going away. Stop being a dumb gatekeeper too.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

bruh, it's literally a mockery. they are mocking the ineptitude of people who use AI.

way to overanalyze a tweet.

[–] ElfWord@lemmy.world -1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

"You're using your brain too much, just enjoy the 'hUmOr'" as a defense of this is ironically the funniest thing in this thread.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't say it was humor. I said they are mocking them.

if your AI brainrot hadn't been so severe you might have comprehended that.

Jesus dude, go touch some grass. you're getting bent out of shape over such an insignificant piece of shit like me, it's pathetic.

[–] ElfWord@lemmy.world -1 points 6 hours ago

Pedantry. "Think less, shut up, accept what the algorithm feeds you from this sub without question" was still the basic gist.

🤷‍♂️ I'm drinking tea and having a nice day. Sorry you think I'm getting bent out of shape just because I'm critiquing your poorly thought-out comments. 🙂

you’re getting bent out of shape over such an insignificant piece of shit like me, it’s pathetic.

My guy it honestly sounds like you're the one who needs to take a screen break more than I do. Be well.

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.