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I guess we've finally found the "killer app" for generative AI: padding MAU/DAU stats. I hate the way things are going so much. Tech promised us a utopia and

I guess we've finally found the "killer app" for generative AI: padding MAU/DAU stats. I hate the way things are going so much. Tech promised us a utopia and instead we've got this trash fire.

jsemrau 2y ago
the way Reddit started -- now with full automation.
- stackghost 2y ago
  Yeah the more you read about how reddit started and the really odious people they were having run large subreddits, the more you realize those scummy guys really duped us all.
quickslowdown 2y ago
I say this a lot. Growing up, being interested in tech, I was so excited by the future. Now that we're here, a bunch of greedy tech bros have sufficiently killed all the dreams I had about the world with tech, and now it's just an utter disappointment. All the people who ushered this terrible new world in by passively consuming, moving into walled gardens, turning off any semblance of critical thinking, justifying it with "but where, in this age of endless digital communication options, where I talk to my friends and family?" Or "I'm ok with targeted advertising because it removes the effort I need to exert to find things I want to buy." This nation is the embodiment of greed, sloth, and pride. Foolish, ignorant people, refusing to use the tools we have to access the entirety of human knowledge, gleefully falling for any bullshit their favorite "influencer" is hawking today, are as much or more to blame than the people who set up the rat mazes for them to run through all day. We welcomed and begged for this. It's hard to not be angry at the way things went, but as much as I hate the tech bros who ruined technology, I think more of the blame deserves to be placed on the people throwing themselves into the engagement machine, letting themselves be duped by easily disproven nonsense because it's easier and more comfortable to not critically think about what they're seeing and hearing. I'm risking turning this into a screed, if I haven't already. I'm pissed off and disappointed, but the longer this goes on the less surprised I am by any new distopian shit I hear. Sci-fi writers of old would be fainting seeing the shit they couldn't dream up happening every day now. It just sucks.
- stackghost 2y ago
  I think Big Tech is exactly like the tobacco companies of yore. Hawking a product that they know is addictive and harmful while feigning ignorance and benevolence. To blame people is to blame the victim. There are dude bros commenting here on this site that have materially made the world a worse place.

I guess we've finally found the "killer app" for generative AI: padding MAU/DAU stats. I hate the way things are going so much. Tech promised us a utopia and instead we've got this trash fire.

jsemrau 2y ago

the way Reddit started -- now with full automation.

stackghost 2y ago
Yeah the more you read about how reddit started and the really odious people they were having run large subreddits, the more you realize those scummy guys really duped us all.

quickslowdown 2y ago

I say this a lot. Growing up, being interested in tech, I was so excited by the future. Now that we're here, a bunch of greedy tech bros have sufficiently killed all the dreams I had about the world with tech, and now it's just an utter disappointment. All the people who ushered this terrible new world in by passively consuming, moving into walled gardens, turning off any semblance of critical thinking, justifying it with "but where, in this age of endless digital communication options, where I talk to my friends and family?" Or "I'm ok with targeted advertising because it removes the effort I need to exert to find things I want to buy." This nation is the embodiment of greed, sloth, and pride. Foolish, ignorant people, refusing to use the tools we have to access the entirety of human knowledge, gleefully falling for any bullshit their favorite "influencer" is hawking today, are as much or more to blame than the people who set up the rat mazes for them to run through all day. We welcomed and begged for this. It's hard to not be angry at the way things went, but as much as I hate the tech bros who ruined technology, I think more of the blame deserves to be placed on the people throwing themselves into the engagement machine, letting themselves be duped by easily disproven nonsense because it's easier and more comfortable to not critically think about what they're seeing and hearing. I'm risking turning this into a screed, if I haven't already. I'm pissed off and disappointed, but the longer this goes on the less surprised I am by any new distopian shit I hear. Sci-fi writers of old would be fainting seeing the shit they couldn't dream up happening every day now. It just sucks.

stackghost 2y ago
I think Big Tech is exactly like the tobacco companies of yore. Hawking a product that they know is addictive and harmful while feigning ignorance and benevolence. To blame people is to blame the victim. There are dude bros commenting here on this site that have materially made the world a worse place.