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I agree with the earlier part of your comment, but am not clear about this part: >and freed from the apparently intolerable burden of having to interact with o

• munificent 1y ago
  Things like: * A comment I saw on HN once where some dude was excited about AI video because it let him play at being a filmmaker without having to deal with actors, camera operators, etc. * The large number of tragic souls who install chatbot apps on their phones and have virtual relationships with them instead of actual relationships. * Spending an evening scrolling through TikTok or other social media which is increasingly AI-generated images and video instead of summoning the willpower to call a friend or get out of the house. * Music producers who use AI vocal generators instead of finding a friend who can sing. Etc.
  • fuzztester 1y ago
    got it, thanks. interesting. I've seen things like that too, among my friends and acquaintances. e.g.: a few months back, i was hanging out one evening in the office of a friend who works in the filmmaking field, who i saw creating a presentation to promote an upcoming film course they were going to conduct shortly. i somehow could detect, by the words and tone, that it was probably ai-generated. he said yes. then i told him what i intuitively felt, that using such a tool once in a while may be okay but if you use it a lot, your skills will atrophy. same thing happened with another friend in a different field some days later.