Interestingly, it was the inverse for COVID where they were begging for lockdowns and the government to go full draconian. I guess the fear of death is the only way to snap them out of their consoomer habits.
Reddit wasn't originally designed as a forum, but as a link aggregator and page-ranking system. When reddit launched, it didn't even have comments. Those came 6 months later, with the site launching in jul. 2005 and comments coming in december.
Many people would have said the same thing with tumblr, and they shut down in all but name and look what happened.
I mean realistically where else are redditors going to get their fix? Big bad nazi Elon's site? Where there are no hecking downvotearinos or unpaid mod positions?
Who knows what the fuck they're doing.
https://danieljloreti.com/ Someone made a website with his username lmao
Does Digg even have a comment section?
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I'd be funny but i think it'll be more like Tumblr. It didn't technically shut down but it metastasized pretty badly when a lot of its userbase decided to branch out of the site.
I think that Reddit metastasized a long time ago already. To the point where it'd make little to no difference if it shut down except for the most hardcore Reddit users who are easy to bully when they don't have a contingent of powermods to jealously protect their little stick in the dirt.
Back before you need an email I would make multiple accounts just to bully jannies.
Now watch as redditors talk down to this ignorant baby child. Their programming is such that they must pretend to respect his/her lived experience but also must scold and or correct this doubple plus ungood sentiment from ever happening again.I’m sure I’ll be downvoted to Hellbut I’m going to disagree.
I’m mostly blind, and super excited about what AI can do for people like me just by describing the world for me. There are some questions a human will probably always be able to answer better (like, do these colours match?), but we’re getting to the point where I can ask the AI things like to read the instructions on a package or tell me the hamburger options at a restaurant or describe a scene. I had a friend talking about how cool it was he could use his Meta glasses to read a print novel just by holding it and turning pages (especially great for books that don’t have a readily available digital version).
I also personally find ChatGPT useful as a search engine because you can ask follow up questions and google has become so absolutely cluttered with sponsored pages that get in the way of real answers. Of course, I’m checking GPT’s sources but it can get me to the information I need faster because of that ability to answer follow up questions.
This isn’t to say AI is magical and perfect. AI slop patterns are the absolute worst. I see it all the time in the embroidery sub “why doesn’t mine look like the picture?”—because the thread in the picture is doing impossible things, that’s why. It’s drowning out quality patterns made by humans who actually understand how thread and fabric work.
And I’m genuinely concerned about AI video. Currently, people are mostly using it for jokes, but it will absolutely get to the point where it won’t be easily recognizable and people will be able to convincingly put words into the mouths of politicians and scientists. I mean, we’re getting there with image generation already (and so many people don’t know what to look for anyway).
Despite my excitement for AI’s potential for me as a blind person, I do think it’s going to get worse before we (humanity) figure out shit out about this.
the water usage shit is the worst anti-ai point by a fucking mile. They were whining about the same shit when crypto shitcoins were the next big thing, and it’s just as retarded now as it was back then.
