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I’ve adopted a similarly pessimistic view, that even if I’m one of the ones who gets to keep my job, “it’s” all going to shit from here. I’m surprised and confu

• joenot443 4y ago
  Same boat. I think in the ways gen-x’ers talk about the “pre-internet” days spent offline, we’ll talk about the “pre-AI” days spent online. I can imagine a flood of content so gargantuan and vast that by 2030, finding new real words online written by real breathing people will be like finding a teacup in a junkyard. I’ll stress that this view is strictly my own and not my employers, but I personally wish this box had remained closed. The benefit we’re seeing now just isn’t worth what’s to come, I fear.
  • tenpies 4y ago
    > we’ll talk about the “pre-AI” days spent online. I like the pre-social media days we spent online. When making a web site took some non-trivial effort so just having something up and hosted meant that you were either interested in the technology, or felt that whatever you were publishing was important enough to warrant the effort. When there were no "normies" online, or if they were, they were confined to e-mail. I'm sure if you go far back enough, you'll find someone centuries ago expressing the same thing. Oh how the printing press has cheapened writing. Back when people had to put quill on paper, they really had something to say . . .
    • t0bia_s 4y ago
      Same with films. On analog, you have really think what story you want to say. Mistakes was expensive. Nowadays cheap mistakes let you experiment more, but again... Without thinking about purpose of those experiment, nothing valuable is made.