JohnFen

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by JohnFen 2mo ago
People also treat genAI outputs as truth. At least that mistake goes both ways.
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
He's been sounding desperate for a good while now.
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> Tell someone you are a software developer and, if they are not in tech, there is often a small moment of admiration. That used to be true, but isn't anymore. Now it will often get you the side-eye instead. I've taken to not a
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
Hope it works better than the genAI "receptionist" that a local healthcare provider started using. It's not just worthless, but impossible to get past. It made contacting them via phone, email, or web site literally impossibl
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
> I think moving from one giant technology company to another isn’t necessarily voting against Big Tech True! That's why I'm not doing that. I'm minimizing my exposure to tech companies and not moving to any other tech com
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
That's truly worrisome.
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
It wouldn't change how vigilant I need to be. Any vehicle, autonomous or not, could do that at any time regardless of how my car is painted.
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
I'd be totally fine with that. I try to keep as much distance between myself and Teslas as possible anyway.
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
Flock's continues its efforts to implement the greatest amount of dystopian nightmare that they can.
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
> Its absolutely not true for the self-made. I disagree. From my observations, it's true nearly as often for that crowd as the inheritance crowd.
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
No, it won't.
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
Human error, even if it's just in the form of "no human caught that genAI did this".
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
It's extremely hard to trust, and such a claim always boils down to "trust me".
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
I think you're talking about a specific form of the larger problem. The very wealthy only know the world of the very wealthy. They know nothing, let alone care, about people who aren't "in the club". Every worse, they --
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
Are they actually showing degraded driving ability? If not, then I'd leave well enough alone unless they've asked for your advice.
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
I don't think people want this. I think people want the other benefits that those things bring, and increasingly feel that it's impossible to escape being surveilled anyway so do their best to ignore the whole issue. Being resigne
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
Sanderson speaks truth. Literally every artist I have known has, at one time or another, expressed some variant of this sentiment to me: the art is the process more than the result.
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
That intentionality is critical in so many ways. When I'm appreciating art (including the written word) and come across something that makes no sense to me, that intentionality means that I can trust that the reason it seems nonsensica
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
I don't assume any such thing, but then, I prefer to say "glassholes" rather than "pervert glasses". What I do assume is that they are recording me without my consent and sending that recording to a server somewhere
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
The lawsuit itself is clearly a loser in court, but I don't think the goal is to actually win. I think the point is the age-old tactic of dragging things out in court to maximize the monetary cost for your opponent, hoping that they&#x
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
Everything Trump touches dies.
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
So much this. I've spent my whole career avoiding being promoted into management because I don't want to be or enjoy being a manager. So it always amuses me when genAI advocates say things like "your job isn't going away
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
None of that is the reason I'm sad. I'm sad because I realized that this industry had grown from something that is a benefit to everyone to something that is the opposite of that.
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Who says he hasn't already?
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
> Plenty of people hated while many loved it. I think this is a hallmark of successful art. The point of art is emotional communication. If someone reacts very negatively to a piece of art, that still means an emotional communication hap
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
> I foresee an immense unavoidable shift in the music industry due to this. If this happens then I'll take some solace in that at least we have a very large existing collection of older music guaranteed to be made by people, so I w
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
If the artist isn't one that I already know and trust, then this is how I do it. It's very sad, but I have to view any recently-created work from an unfamiliar artist with great suspicion. It does make me less interested in recent
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
A little disclaimer before the rest of my comment: I think machine-generated art (fine art, anyway. Commercial and functional art have different nuances) is objectionable. Many people with fully-functional taste buds genuinely find gruel de
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by JohnFen 2mo ago
I think it depends on what you value in art. For me, the value of art is that it's an emotional communication from a person. What the art actually looks/sounds/feels like is completely secondary to that. Machine-generated art
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One of the great marketing successes in history is that these companies managed to convince vast swaths of people to feed candy to their kids for breakfast.

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