• diz@awful.systems
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    3 days ago

    They’re also very gleeful about finally having one upped the experts with one weird trick.

    Up until AI they were the people who were inept and late at adopting new technology, and now they get to feel that they’re ahead (because this time the new half-assed technology was pushed onto them and they didn’t figure out they needed to opt out).

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      Up until AI they were the people who were inept and late at adopting new technology, and now they get to feel that they’re ahead

      Exactly. It is also a new technology that requires far fewer skills to use than previous new technologies. The skills are needed to critically scrutinize the output - which in this case leads to less lazy people being more reluctant to accept the technology.

      On top of this, AI fans are being talked into believing that their prompting as such is a special “skill”.