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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not a defense of AI, but in general the Epstein coalition has just been skirting the line between mentally challenged and cartoon villain every time they open their mouth. Even without an llm's these are the most depraved people in the world.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

True, but this isn't an accident either. AI is most prevalent in places where authenticity and meaning have already been destroyed by late stage capitalism.

Email writing? There was no fucking humanity left in it before AI came along, it was already a mess of language forms that only complexified over time making a judgement of how to convey something short and simple an extended process of trying to guess what the correct social norms are to employ in that situation.

I hope email and job applications become hopelessly flooded with AI crap, they both deserve to die as a forms of humans communicating with humans as there is no reality, no meaning left to these mediums of interaction. AI is just an underlining of that pre-existing enshittification of communication.