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this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2026
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Me and my partner love to send paragraph long messages. When this happens, meta ai is so kind as to give me the option to summarize it for me. As a brain dead AI worshiper, this has saved me a lot of time and enabled me to do what I really love: increase share holder value.
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Horses and humans. For a long time, the oligarchs and wealthy classes in every country bred, fed and maintained their equine populations. They earned a living by providing a service to the wealthy, which was transportation. Horses became specialized in certain things like fighting in a war, pulling carriages, etc... and some more than others were more highly valued and traded as workers to other companies (wealthy families and businesses)... They needed horses to do all this work so they expanded the horse population. By the 1900s, it was massive. The horses themselves were worth so much money because of the labor they provided the wealthy classes. Then the automobile was created and suddenly the wealthy didn't need the services anymore. It didn't take long for the world equine population to drop substantially never to recover.
This is what the wealthy want AI to do to you
And now we mix Horse Meat into our Fast Food Burgers!
While i dont really like AI, the horses and humans are little different.
Horses were tools. More adept parable would be cars were to horses what petrol engines were to steam engines.
People are not just going to stop procreating because ai takes their job.
Isn't "I don't have enough money to raise children" a common saying? I seem to hear it IRL and on lemmy or elsewhere
Horses are living animals, just like people. Do you think horses chose to mostly stop procreating because cars took their job?
Horses were tools that were fed and tended to in service of the economy, and would procreate as much as their circumstances of food and care allowed them.
Many humans are seen as tools to be fed and tended to with respect to their service to the economy, and will procreate as much as their circumstances of food and care will allow them.
Humans need not apply.
Some random one-sentence social media post is supposed to prove the coming "post-literate society"?
Embarrassing.
Prime example of whatβs to come in this post-literate society!
Some random one-sentence social media post followed by an automated AI offer to summarize that one sentence.
Because that one sentence used too many big words, or something.
This is like, 90% of Lemmy news posts.
Welcome to Costco, I love you!
I have worked at the grocery store, and remember many of the produce codes by heart. I practice them, its a silly fun thing for me to do in my mundane life. I stopped using the self check at my shop because they upgraded to AI involvement. However, they had one lane open the other day and I was in a rush, so I used self check.
The fucking Ai scans fhe produce it sees and gives yoy options to pick from. All pictures. I cannot put the item code in myself anymore, I have to select the photo based on what it thinks is on the register. Im not fucking dumb. this is shit is so dumb. I fucking hate it.
4011 still bananas?
"Im not fucking dumb. this is shit is so dumb.'
Well...
Typos are not an indicator of a lack of intelligence.
A lack of humor is though.
Lots of real world examples of course, but sci-fi has covered how lack of access to writing, reading or knowledge is an essential ingredient in dystopian control societies. Bit of brave new world, 1984, and some animal farm thrown in.
The 2010 play Futura by Jordan Harrison is highly recommended though don't think it's been produced anywhere in a while.
But of brave new world, 1984, and some animal farm thrown in.
Funny how you didn't mention Fahrenheit 451, since that's literally how the dystopia in the book came to be.
You can just suggest it as an addendum instead of implying that it's a deliberate omission by starting with "Funny how..."
Wasn't meant as insinuating a deliberate omission. Put you're right. The tone was a bit agressive, sorry.
I thought the omission was funny too
Had to look that word up. Thought it was a typo. Purposively. I'm going to try and use that in a sentence today irl.
Do not be surprised when someone corrects you to 'purposefully'.
I still enjoy the use of "ain't". It's a beautiful word.
Sure is!
Y'all ain't from around 'ere, aren't ya?
To be fair, they are very close in meaning.
in most cases language should minimize unneeded complexity imo
having 4 differently spelled words that mean the same shit but with slightly different hyper-specific use cases seems stupid
i bet it is French root
Haha you would love the Japanese language.
One character can have multiple meanings, and different pronunciation. δΈ (ichi) vs δΈγ€ (hitotsu) for instance.
And then there are the puns. So many puns.
We're talking about English here.
It breaks pretty much all of its own rules, and arguably is the most unnecessarily complex widely spoken language.
and something like 80% of those words are fucking French root (complete anger driven ass-pull number)
I believe the actual number is around 25-30%. Blame the Norman invasion.
But French is like 80% Latin roots so you can blame the Romans before that.
Also yeah the crazy number of synonyms is a peculiarity of English because it also has strong influence from Old Germanic, Latin (more directly), Greek, even a bit of Sanskrit.
Latin is at least pronounced just like its written.
The french took those words, threw away everything but the root, added 50% more vowels than necessary and drew a few symbols over certain letters to change the pronunciation.
I'm about to blow your fucking mind, then: "purpositive" is a word too as a nonstandard variant of "purposive", most commonly that I've seen used to replace it in "purposive sampling". "Purpositively" is a word that has some small but real usage and that you could use if you ever stop giving a shit.
Yeah I've always thought it's 'purposely'
Porpoisivly
I've had an AI "summary" of a 6 word sentence that was like 20+words. It's absolutely goddamn insane.
They just really, really want organized Elois and Morlocks - and think they're both combined into some god figure.
cute