An older relative recently mused to me how amazing it is that soon ai will put all the world's information at our fingertips! And it's like, no we already have that you just have to have a modicum of curiosity, ai will just digest this down into the most statistically average version delivery of this and allow the models' owners to present their version of consensus reality as something objective bc the slop machine said so. And I've talked to this person multiple times about the enshittification of google search which they agreed they've also seen, so I have to assume they are just seeing ai get glazed up on the legacy media they consume.

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hapless rubes are also seeing upper and middle management at their workplaces drooling over AI and matching the energy. Which is basically just watching the butcher sharpen a knife and thinking "oohh! That's a shiny knife!"