Novamdomum

Open mouthed, permanently surprised and with a fixed expression that suggests some kind of paralysis. That’s how I like my girlfriends.

Everyone loved steam engines huh? Do you even history? - Chugging Through Fears & Terror: The Steam Train Phobia of the 19th Century 🚂💨

Tell that to the poor sod who had to run in front of the first motorcars, waving a red flag.

The way I see it, my comments have prompted an enormous amount of discussion. The most interesting comment, I think, was from PixelProf when they said “Lots of students arbitrarily hating anything AI related”. It’s this blind, herd mentality that I attempted (apparently successfully) to start a discussion about. In fact a lot of what I wrote was driven by the point you were making, which I interpreted as being a funny take on the way people react to AI generated content.

Sure, but I expect they disrupted the workflow of folks in 1804…

Neither I, nor anyone, can “protect” it or slow it down. You either find a way to work with what’s happening or spiral into greater and greater impotent rage. Better accept this now than slowly go mad no?

It doesn’t matter what I (or anyone) “proposes”. You may as well be asking me what I propose to do about the orbit of Jupiter. Arguing about it on the Internet is especially pointless. It’s the new “Old man shouts at clouds” basically…

It’s a paradigm shift and people always behave in unpredictable ways when those come around. It’ll settle down eventually into just being a part of normal life.

Dammit you’re right. Well, I guess that fixes everything.

It’s crazy to watch the insane level of outrage that the existence and growth of AI produced content stirs up in some people when it seems obvious that the development of AI is unstoppable. It’s like watching people get angry at the first steam engines that appeared. I genuinely worry about their mental health over the next few years as they realise that being angry on the internet isn’t going to slow anything down at all.