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I absolutely loathe generative AI and everything about it. As a software worker I'm kind of in the belly of the beast. 99% of my colleagues are clapping like seals at the most soulless diarrhea from a butthole fuck-ass slop images they've generated of our company mascot riding a canoe or whatever the fuck. Haha look at this photo I had gemini make to celebrate summer coming up, isn't it fun? Every time I have to exercise herculean restraint to not roll my eyes back into my skull. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it so much. I don't use it at all, ever, not because it wouldn't be helpful in my work, but purely out of pure spite. I just fucking hate it so much.
The one arguably maybe I guess good thing about this bullshit is that, ironically, it's made me able to appreciate actual real human art much more. Like, I have a whole new level of appreciation for people that take the time and effort to make a 45 second mspaint sketch instead of having the nightmare engine hallucinate an image for them. Same with music that's kinda shitty, it might not be GOOD good, but damn someone really made that shit with their own two hands, and that rules. Even just reading an email that has grammatical errors and ZERO em-dashes or emoji will bring a smile to my face, because at least someone fucking made it.
Ok but I hate that em-dashes are being wrecked by the nightmare engine, they have legitimate uses
when all the shit online and on tv is fake we might see a resurgence of community theater and small scale live music... if there are physical places to do those things
I had to learn what an em-dash was because of llms and I'll never forgive them for it
But I like em dashes and emoji—I've always used them as long as they've been around 🥺
Yeah – me too 🙁
wait is that an en dash? – idk man, whatever, still love them. Or used to, at least.
I'm curious, how'd you grow to hate em-dashes without knowing what they are?