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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • It’s a tool; it can be used well by skilled people to create a good output

    Of course that’s true for things like programming if used only as a chat-based responsive rubber duck to help debug or investigate potential architecture. People using it to spit out entire projects is terrible though and it’s destroying the open source ecosystem by making it difficult to find projects that aren’t jank and likely to be immediately abandoned

    But in regards to generating any sort of art media, there is no good output or skilled creators because there’s no skill or effort put into it. You’re not skilled because you put a prompt into a chat bot in the same way you’re not a skilled chef for putting in an order at McDonalds.






  • I kind of get it since they need funding to escape Google’s boot and AI is a money printing machine at the moment but it all seems shortsighted and poorly done. If they added AI features slowly and with caution I’d be happier but they’re buying into the “GAMBLE IT ALL ON POORLY CONCEIVED AI FEATURES NOBODY ASKED FOR” hype train which is just going to be a disaster

    I’ve been pretty happy with the Zen Browser fork of Firefox (minus the fact that the lead dev seems to be a bit of an opinionated dick but it works well anyway)