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Comment on Refusing LinkedIn's ID verification is costing me my job in ~tech
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Comment on Refusing LinkedIn's ID verification is costing me my job in ~tech
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentI did this a while back for a lot of friends with fake Facebook names when Facebook was harassing them about it. I did it for myself too. This is why I basically think these ID laws are stupid,...I did this a while back for a lot of friends with fake Facebook names when Facebook was harassing them about it.
I did it for myself too.
This is why I basically think these ID laws are stupid, unless they cross check IDs with state databases, which from what I can tell they dont. Most people can just use photoshopped IDs.
I laughed because there's going to be a huge fake ID surge when all these sites start asking for IDs.
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Comment on Why the internet really wants your ID... (and why now?) in ~tech
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentSo are these digital identification solutions tied to state license/id databases? What's stopping someone from photoshopping or using a fake id?So are these digital identification solutions tied to state license/id databases?
What's stopping someone from photoshopping or using a fake id?
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Comment on With 'Golden' topping 'Ordinary,' a K-pop girl group hits No. 1 for the first time in ~music
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentI'm glad that post introduced it to people!I'm glad that post introduced it to people!
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Comment on Which other sites do you visit? in ~tech
CrypticCuriosity629 (edited )LinkSo outside of Reddit, YouTube, and Tildes, my mains are ChatGPT for occasional help with formatting and various tasks, but I'm working on locally hosting my own LLM and AI agents to move away on...So outside of Reddit, YouTube, and Tildes, my mains are ChatGPT for occasional help with formatting and various tasks, but I'm working on locally hosting my own LLM and AI agents to move away on reliance on ChatGPT for various transcription stuff.. I'll browse Google News too.
For my hobbies I'll browse 3D Printing sites like Printables, Thingiverse, Makersworld, Yegi, etc. Also TheRPF.com, but it's not as active anymore.
I'm also on Github quite a bit too.
I really really wish there were more sites available to browse. I've been meaning to set up an RSS feed server and finding more blogs.
As far as random time wasters go:
- https://wiby.me/surprise/ - Gives you a random Web 1.0 website. Some of these are really interesting and I can definitely fall into rabbit holes.
- https://openguessr.com/ - It's exactly like Geoguessr but before they enshitified that with ads and "credits" and a bunch of other BS.
- https://goblin.tools/ - Less of a timewaster and more of a tool, has some good toolsfor neurodivergent folk like myself.
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Comment on Just Buy Nothing: A fake online store to combat shopping addiction in ~health.mental
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentThat's fair, and especially the idea to use it for dementia patients. My uncle had dementia and he'd get in trouble for buying random shit on Amazon and wasting a lot of money. My cousin had to...That's fair, and especially the idea to use it for dementia patients. My uncle had dementia and he'd get in trouble for buying random shit on Amazon and wasting a lot of money. My cousin had to put on a garage sale for some of the stuff that had accumulated.
To be honest, even with your explanation I still don't personally understand it, and that's ok.
Like if I have any shopping addiction it's with AliExpress, and even then it's not really a problem because of how cheap everything is, but again I'm like sitting there thinking about the actual products. I'll add things to collections/wishlists.
Like if I saw a cat paw shaped box cutter? I genuinely like the concept, design, and engineering, and I fantasize about the idea of having that at work and smiling every time I use it. I'm not
Or a cute Claymore plush toy, I absolutely don't need it, but the concept is fun and it'd look cool next to the small collection of macabre cute plush toys on my couch. Again liking the idea of smiling at it on my couch.
If I wasn't actually getting these products, the entire process of shopping would lose it's appeal if the items weren't real.
So no judgement at all for others, but for me personally I just can't wrap my head around buying things without expecting a real product.
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Comment on Remedy is "unsatisfied" with the sales of its live-service shooter FBC: Firebreak, as the game underperformed on Steam in ~games
CrypticCuriosity629 (edited )LinkYeah, no shit. I saw this from miles away and it's a bit insane to me not a single person at Remedy did. It feels like this game was some shareholder or CEO's response to the PvE extraction...Yeah, no shit. I saw this from miles away and it's a bit insane to me not a single person at Remedy did.
It feels like this game was some shareholder or CEO's response to the PvE extraction shooter popularity and the popularity of their Control IP, but didn't for 2 seconds stop and understand the context of those two things and how they didn't fit. The whole idea and concept felt shoehorned together like they sloppily mashed together a gaming genre and their IP.
And nobody really asked for it and they just recycled The Hiss. You're telling me it's been 6 years after the first game and The Hiss is STILL the biggest foe in the Oldest House? Really? What even was the point of Jesse then?
It would have actually been a lot more cohesive if Firebreak took place BEFORE the events of Control during the midst of the Hiss takeover, and I think that would have fit a bit better narratively and would have given reason for The Hiss's existence in the game if they still wanted to be lazy with their enemy design.
They could have structured it like Helldivers 2, where there were different sections(akin to sectors in Helldivers) and "rooms"(akin to planets in Helldivers) of the oldest house that players could either win or lose until the final battle for The Nexus(akin to Super Earth) and the Hiss would take over sections. Then, similar to Helldivers 1, whether or not the players ultimately won or lost against The Hiss, the canon events would obviously be that The Hiss won. If you wanted to get creative you could throw some interdimensional alternate reality shenanigans to narratively explain player wins.
That could have even allowed for different enemy types, again similar to Helldivers.
Sure, some might call that a bit derivative of Helldivers, but I mean the formula works and formatting it like that would have just made it more cohesive and structured than what we got.
Also, I LOVED Control, and while I loved the concept for The Hiss itself, it was still just another video game "Hivemind/Zombie infection" bad guy with an interdimensional twist. Which was fine for introducing us to the world of Control, but the Hiss should have been one and done after the first game.
The entire concept of Control and The Oldest House lends itself to so many cool and interesting interdimensional enemies and interdimensional problems to solve, and the SCP like enemies that could unfold, that Firebreak was disappointing in that regard because it seemed to just shoehorn the same bad guys and Objects of Power from Control into an PvE extraction shooter without much thought or explanation.
I get what they were trying to do, but it fell short and felt uninspired. And I say that as someone who was absolutely craving more worldbuilding within the world of Control.
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Comment on Just Buy Nothing: A fake online store to combat shopping addiction in ~health.mental
CrypticCuriosity629 LinkSo I'm a bit curious how this is different than telling an alcoholic to fix their addiction with non-alcoholic beer. I'm also a bit confused because I get my dopamine from ideating the actual...So I'm a bit curious how this is different than telling an alcoholic to fix their addiction with non-alcoholic beer.
I'm also a bit confused because I get my dopamine from ideating the actual product I'm buying, and again when I receive the product.
Like I'm usually thinking about how the product can improve my life somehow, and if I'm not actually getting the product then there's nothing to ideate about or imagine...
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
CrypticCuriosity629 LinkStill going strong on Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor. The game is like a straight shot of dopamine to my ADHD. The amount of satisfaction you get when you have a OP build and the bugs are dying...Still going strong on Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor.
The game is like a straight shot of dopamine to my ADHD.
The amount of satisfaction you get when you have a OP build and the bugs are dying enmasse and the sounds of XP being collected until you level up. Getting those legendary or epic upgrades in the loot boxes. 🧑‍🍳🤌💋
Plus, rounds are nicely timed, so I can fit in rounds during chores.
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Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive in ~tech
CrypticCuriosity629 (edited )Link ParentLong ago I had the idea of basically creating a decentralized crowdsourced internet archive that shares caches of sites with each other via P2P. Basically people install the plugin/Server and you...I love the Internet Archive but I’ve been saying for years that we shouldn’t be putting all our eggs in one basket.
Long ago I had the idea of basically creating a decentralized crowdsourced internet archive that shares caches of sites with each other via P2P.
Basically people install the plugin/Server and you configure it every time, hour, day, etc, to download webpages you frequent, or partials, HTML, etc all configurable, and it basically keeps that copy for X amount of days and will look for incremental updates to that page while filtering out ads and stuff. Of course it removes cookies and personally identifiable information too.
Completely configurable to give people the control of how often to take a backup, whether or not to include pictures and images, have a way to compress images, whitelists for sites you want to backup, blacklist for sites you don't, how many incremental backups to keep, how much memory before deleting older backups, etc. Was even thinking of a plugin that used the same processes as JDownloader2 to download videos off of sites too, so doing the same for YouTube.
It would work in the background via a browser plugin that connects to a hosted server that manages the backups, and basically just uses what you have in your cache and already basically downloaded, instead of like remotely downloading a website or scraping data.
Those downloaded incremental backups of websites are then shared via a P2P network, so people can browse backups and download backups of said website.
The idea was to have people be able to host a server where these backups can be stored and sorted, and you can configure it to download incremental backups of a website from the P2P network, and to store yours. Could be self hosted on Docker.
Then of course you'd have places like Universities and Internet Archive with immense amounts of storage that would piggy back off the network too and give them the ability to make daily backups in some, and the ability to track changes over time.
Hell, I even came up with a fun button that will send you to a random website that hadn't been archived in a while so people can click it when they're bored and it'll help out the network.
I was talking to a few people about starting that project and the various ways we could get it to work, but like most project talk, people lose interest and move on. Never came to fruition.
It would have been great for data hoarders like myself, and others that potentially need to have access to websites offline for various reasons. Also just generally good for the health of the internet too, it would have made this article a moot point.
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Comment on Over twenty-one days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced he was a superhero in ~tech
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentI mean, I wish I could agree, but my experience is wildly different than that. The following is just explaining my experience, I'm not trying to toot my own horn or anything. I barely finished...I mean, I wish I could agree, but my experience is wildly different than that. The following is just explaining my experience, I'm not trying to toot my own horn or anything.
I barely finished high school, never got good grades, moved around a ton from Texas trailer parks to San Diego passed around with family. I didn't even finish community college, and focused mainly on digital design and created my own major without finishing a lot of core classes. I was not born with a silver spoon, and my childhood was fucking up.
Despite that, I've built a career spanning the entertainment industry with set design, production design, set construction and fabrication to politics and marketing, I worked at The Walt Disney Company, working on projects that require engineering and logistics knowledge. I've worked with companies to automate processes and integrate automation into their workflows. I've manage teams of engineers, designers, and developers.
The main thing that's got me this far, I believe, is having to learn to think critically and be very self aware and aware of others from a young age. I had to watch my own emotions and the emotions of others and their reactions to survive. I had to solve my own problems, I had to find creative ways to survive.
Because of that, I never thought anything was truly out of my reach, and with that I've achieved a lot of what I wanted to. And I was confident of that so if things like core classes or school didn't make sense to me I simply didn't pay attention, and instead focused on things that did work for me. I didn't do homework, didn't subscribe to simple memorization. I used my own ways to solve math problems instead of showing the work they wanted me to.
I followed the beat of my own drum and it's gotten me pretty far so far.
And the majority of what I know about science, history, technology, physics and engineering is mostly all self taught and learned.
At the end of the day I came from a poor drug addict mother and father in a small town in Texas and passed around from home to home throughout my childhood and barely finished highschool and didn't even finish community college. So when people say it's about opportunities and formal education, that's a very difficult swallow for me. I've gotten so far, I believe, using critical thinking skills to create my own opportunities.
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Comment on Over twenty-one days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced he was a superhero in ~tech
CrypticCuriosity629 (edited )LinkSo my controversial opinion on this is that AI is exasperating and highlighting a huge issue that's been either growing for a while or is just now being highlighted since more people have access...- Exemplary
So my controversial opinion on this is that AI is exasperating and highlighting a huge issue that's been either growing for a while or is just now being highlighted since more people have access to tools that are vastly outpacing their ability to comprehend them.
And frankly it's simply the fact of just how rotted people's minds are when it comes to critical thinking skills and understanding the world and the technology they use.
Whether it's propaganda and politics, AI psychosis, science denial, religious fanaticism, in my opinion it all comes from the same place of just completely atrophied critical thinking skills, little to no emotional intelligence, and very low actual conscious intelligence in a very large portion of the people on this planet.
To the point that I don't truly believe a lot of people are actually self aware, and have just learned to effectively simulate self awareness only enough to fit in with society at a baseline and when pressured the cracks start to show how little consciousness they have.
Like it baffles my head there are people openly posting TikToks or Reels of themselves not comprehending how mirror reflections work by trying to "hide" behind a towel or something and are confused that someone from the side can still see their reflection. There are literally wild animals that comprehend mirror reflections better than these people do, and these people are out there driving, voting, having kids, making your food, and I bet you there's some overlap between them and the people this very article/thread is about too.
Another controversial thing is that I think people forget that just because we can communicate and converse with a person doesn't mean that they're generally intelligent enough to operate unaided in society. Human's language center is more developed, and while language and intelligence are related, one doesn’t inherently result in the other. I sometimes joke that I believe that if my cat simply had Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas in her brain and could communicate that she'd be able to out-logic some actual humans in my life.
I remember growing up and being told everyone is equally capable, and boy as an adult that was the biggest lie I was sold as a child.
Might be a grim opinion, but man we really need to get on top of teaching practical critical thinking skills and emotional intelligence in schools and put a heavy priority on that. Those two things, more than anything else, if taught to children very early on and re-enforced throughout their education would fix 75% of the world's issues.
And here's one more controversial opinion for the road, I bet you if educational metrics were based around creative problem solving, critical thinking skills, and emotional intelligence instead of repetitive information/process memorization, the criteria for "disabilities" like Autism and ADHD would probably flip and it would be neurotypical people being diagnosed with the intellectual disabilities.
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Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music
CrypticCuriosity629 (edited )LinkThe Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack has been on repeat for me. My work's got me in a mood, so my work playlist consists of the following: You Are a Cunt - Kat McSnatch (Respectable Member) Another...The Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack has been on repeat for me.
My work's got me in a mood, so my work playlist consists of the following:
- You Are a Cunt - Kat McSnatch (Respectable Member)
- Another F.U. Song - Reel Big Fish (Monkeys For Nothin' And The Chimps For Free)
- i just learned the f word - SARIAH (i just learned the f word)
- Die, Motherfucker, Die - Get Set Go (Miktevillie, Volume 1)
- Stupid MF - Mindless Self Indulgence (You'll Rebel to Anything (Expanded Edition))
- Fuck Everything - EURINGER, Chantal Claret (EURINGER)
- Stupid - Brendan Maclean (Stupid)
- I Don't Like You - Kat McSnatch (Respectable Member)
- abcdefu (angrier) - GAYLE (abcdefu (angrier))
And a guy on TikTok with amazingly chaotic energy who parties with his pig, parakeet, and chicken got “Born to Be Alive” by Patrick Hernandez stuck in my head in a very good way.
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Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative
CrypticCuriosity629 LinkSo after realizing how easy it was to re-wrap my cat's scratching posts with sisal rope, and how easy it is to dye sisal rope, I've kind of started brainstorming making my own cat scratching posts...So after realizing how easy it was to re-wrap my cat's scratching posts with sisal rope, and how easy it is to dye sisal rope, I've kind of started brainstorming making my own cat scratching posts and cat trees.
I work at a printer so have access to cardboard cores and tubes for banners and posters.
Will probably leverage my 3D Printing to design anything from wall mounts to other things.
I've got a lot of ideas for cute and creative cat trees/scratching posts, including like bamboo stalk scratching post to tombstone scratching post/Litterbox combo(so it looks like the cat is digging and pooping in the grave), and even a pirate cannon tree/scratching post that the cat can crawl into the canon lol.
I'm excited and want to see if I can find any local carpet shops around Seattle that sell scraps and remnants for cheap, as well as other print shops that throw away the tubes. Oh, and ideally I'd need a shop with access to a CNC table that would be willing to let me purchase and CNC cut shapes out of plywood/MDF.
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Comment on Is AI actually useful for anyone here? in ~tech
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentFYI, I've been really wanting to respond to your message in kind, however I've been very busy and haven't had the time or energy to fully respond. However I did want to say that this is why I love...FYI, I've been really wanting to respond to your message in kind, however I've been very busy and haven't had the time or energy to fully respond.
However I did want to say that this is why I love Tildes, is being able to have respectful and deep conversations about differing opinions.
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Comment on The vast majority ~90% of us only consume, never post and never comment. So come on in, leave a tildes-worthy comment, and join the 10% my dear lurker in ~talk
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentAt least from my own past experience, it's the financial guys who seem to have the most staunch opinions like that. HahaAt least from my own past experience, it's the financial guys who seem to have the most staunch opinions like that. Haha
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Comment on Curate your own newspaper with RSS in ~tech
CrypticCuriosity629 Link ParentRight? haha Here I am thinking the same thing myself!Right? haha Here I am thinking the same thing myself!
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Comment on Curate your own newspaper with RSS in ~tech
CrypticCuriosity629 (edited )Link ParentHas FreshRSS ever fixed the issue that you can't sort anything by published date and not Date added? I tried FreshRSS a like around 2019 or 2020 and I wasn't happy with it because of the lack of...Has FreshRSS ever fixed the issue that you can't sort anything by published date and not Date added?
I tried FreshRSS a like around 2019 or 2020 and I wasn't happy with it because of the lack of ability to sort by published date and not date added. I subscribed to this issue and at the time was further put off by the developer being dismissive of many user's valid requests for this use case and the vast amount of people replying to this issue, emoting to it, and the vast amount of other topics being merged into it also asking for this feature, spanning all the way to 2019.
I remember browsing the code and wondering what could possibly make this feature so difficult since sorting ability is one of the most basic things of most aggregator type software. And the software pulls the published date from somewhere, it's just tying that published date variable to a sort order. I ended up moving on way before I came to any solutions.
I just re-read the thread and apparently he did develop the feature earlier this year, so I'll try it again when I get home.
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Comment on Is AI actually useful for anyone here? in ~tech
CrypticCuriosity629 (edited )Link ParentI wouldn't say I'm hoping for this or even excited about it. Automation and AI are just the next step in how technology evolve, including in the arts. It's not about what anyone wants; it's just...- Exemplary
I wouldn't say I'm hoping for this or even excited about it. Automation and AI are just the next step in how technology evolve, including in the arts. It's not about what anyone wants; it's just the reality that tech moves forward unless something actively stops it. That's true in every industry, not just creative work.
My original comment was to someone else, so it might not line up perfectly with your concerns. The main thing I was pointing out is that I don't think the problem is entirely with AI itself, it's that we never prepared for it, economically, socially, or culturally, and that's where a lot of the danger of AI comes from.
As I asked before, was the expectation we just quit innovating after the creation of Photoshop/Digital design software, and if that wasn't the expectation, then what else would be the next technological progression after that?
If we'd put things in place like an automation tax or UBI, this wouldn't be nearly as devastating for artists' livelihoods. That's the real problem, not the tech itself, but how disruptive it is when nobody's ready for it.
As for art and creative spaces being under threat, I personally am not concerned about that outside of economic dangers for Artists themselves.
History shows the same panic every time something new arrives. Painters in the 19th century were terrified of photography, and the arguments sound almost identical to what we're hearing now, and every single time a new technology comes out people say that "No, this time is different, this is not like last time, this is what will definitely kill art."
The fear has sometimes been expressed that photography would in time entirely supersede the art of painting. Some people seem to think that when the process of taking photographs in colors has been perfected and made common enough, the painter will have nothing more to do.
And critics dismissed photography as "thoughtless replication" with no genius or soul, again, just like we're hearing about AI:
When critics weren't wringing their hands about photography, they were deriding it. They saw photography merely as a thoughtless mechanism for replication, one that lacked, "that refined feeling and sentiment which animate the productions of a man of genius," as one expressed in an 1855 issue of The Crayon.
That article was written in 2016 and it cites articles written in 1855, well before AI was even on the radar, so it was not written knowing the arguments being made today about AI, so the fact that they're the same basic fears and arguments means it's a pattern, and one that happens every time there's a disruptive new technology.
And here's an article from the New Yorker written in 2005 articulating old Musician's fears about the phonograph:
Ninety-nine years ago, John Philip Sousa predicted that recordings would lead to the demise of music. The phonograph, he warned, would erode the finer instincts of the ear, end amateur playing and singing, and put professional musicians out of work. "The time is coming when no one will be ready to submit himself to the ennobling discipline of learning music," he wrote. "Everyone will have their ready made or ready pirated music in their cupboards." Something is irretrievably lost when we are no longer in the presence of bodies making music, Sousa said. "The nightingale's song is delightful because the nightingale herself gives it forth."
And here's an article written for The New York Times in 1985 about how CAD software would cause a generation of engineers to be "overly reliant on CAD software and will tend to make catastrophic mistakes."
The consultant, Dr. George E. Smith, who is also a professor of philosophy, told the winter meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in Miami Beach that junior engineers using CAD programs were simply putting in data and collecting the solutions. Little or no thought is thus given to how the program arrives at the answer or whether it is correct, he said.
Many young engineers, Dr. Smith said, cannot devise simple mathematical models to check the computer's answers.
Other engineers said that people who made such mistakes could not be licensed to practice engineering and that any mistakes by such nonprofessionals would be caught by licensed engineers before a design reached construction stage.
That was written in 1985, is it coincidence that it is the exact same kind of argument that people have around software engineering and AI now?
And finally when it comes to Photoshop, this NPR article was written in 2015 interviewing the creator of Photoshop:
"There were previously very sophisticated people in darkrooms who could do very good photo composites that you couldn't tell from reality," Knoll says. "What Photoshop did was sort of democratize that ability."
But some people would inevitably use these tools irresponsibly.
"A lot of the uses of Photoshop are wonderful and creative," he says. "There are a few uses where people are being unethical with it and like any tool, it's not the fault of the tool that happens."
Knoll sees a positive side to the pervasiveness of Photoshop.
"It certainly raises awareness that you can't trust an image as truth without having other means of verification," he says. "People have a more healthy skepticism when they see photography."
Again, there's a reason this mirror's the criticism of AI being used to fake photography.
These are very very clear patterns, it's not a coincidence that the same exact phrasing and terminology gets consistently used across literally hundreds of years and it's because the core fear is around new technology and the uncertainty around it is always the same.
And yet each time art doesn't die.
Again, not saying all this to particularly defend AI as this amazing invention, but just trying to illustrate that the fears and concerns around AI are almost perfect reflections of fears and concerns around other disruptive technologies going back hundreds of years.
Edit: I also thought it could use some clarification why I have a lot of this information on hand, and I grew up in the 90s and started using photoshop in the early 2000s, and I remember there being a lot of discourse around Photoshop ending the careers of traditional graphic designers. So that was a common thread early on, and so I've recognized a lot of the same arguments around AI and saved these articles a couple years ago to illustrate it.
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Comment on Is AI actually useful for anyone here? in ~tech
CrypticCuriosity629 (edited )Link ParentYeah, I'm a designer and I just see AI as the natural progression of things like Photoshop. Like if not AI, what's the natural technological progression of design software like Photoshop and other...Yeah, I'm a designer and I just see AI as the natural progression of things like Photoshop.
Like if not AI, what's the natural technological progression of design software like Photoshop and other similar software?
Were we supposed to just quit innovating after Photoshop?
The problem that I've been screaming from the top of my lungs since at least 2009 is that we as a society needed to prepare for what at the time I called automation, so that it's not as economically disruptive as it's being. We also needed to start looking into a Universal Basic Income for those who's careers would be displaced by automation, funded by charging companies an automation/AI tax for use of automation that would level the playing field between the cost of AI and cost of hiring humans.
Unfortunately we live in the reality where we literally did not do a single rational thing to address these issues, mainly because of the reality that we live in a gerontocracy of politicians on dementia meds and barely know how to open PDFs without help, and so now technology is quickly catching up to people's lack of foresight like a freight train plowing into a dynamite factory.
Once again it just backs up my opinion is that the problems people have with AI isn't actually the AI itself, it's the fact that AI is starting to highlight the major cracks in society that we've ignored and refused to take seriously for decades at this point.
I don't use a VPN and have never been asked for an ID.