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77. I used to think you were way off base ranting about AI and posting too often about it

Tue Dec 30, 2025, 11:31 AM

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Seeing the horrific responses from most of the commenters here made me realize... oh. No. You've been right all along even if your tactics are not to my taste. I've just been in a bubble of savvy tech people who make fun of it or maybe use it successfully to help with coding, knowing full well it's limitations and sneering at it's pathetic attempts to generate "art."

More people need to wake up, but most people won't.

God this is so infuriating and sad. Is that how easy it is to manipulate people? Some of you actually fall for this goddamn tripe? All you need to do is be made to feel special by a fucking algorithm? That voice convinces you? Ugh.

So depressing.

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