Yes. I dont know a single (gen z) peer who has less than 4 hours screentime daily

I think donation/investment based freemium is the future of internet content once the bots kill ad viability

Yeah, its not handling “my grandma is dying pls send emt” calls, but more “The concert hall is on fire” call #450.

That being said, I disagree with most applications of AI that prevent human interaction. Just because im the 40th person calling about a situation doesnt mean my call is useless, it means i might have new information on an evolving situation.

Local small businesses are being priced out of self hosted server options since ~October (Source: MSP)

Reddit did that a decade or two ago. Most arguments about a posted news article are just fights over the headline

This is my concern. One day, there will be a silent update that will only be released to police stations. Citizens will never know about it and itll just be Flock 2.0

Like always seems to happen. The issue was pushed a few months down the line in these areas

There are also real people who would have a great time doing this with you. Ai does not need to exist in this scenario.

Either way, its still a bad look. Peer review is even worse than Op Eds, or fiction, or what have you… But its all equally socially degenerate

Only pro is laborious, tedious programming tasks have become significantly faster to do, along with testing edge cases and stuff a programmer should be able to do but maybe doesnt need to.

Just about everything else is negative.

“I dont write anything but i take credit for everything”

Ive been begging us to adopt booru-style tagging for videos for decades at this point.

(For the uninitiated, this would mean i could search something like “Brunette curly_hair -horse_penis score:>500” and get every video known to man with a curly haired brunette who does not interact with a horse penis and at least 500 people liked the video)

The current tell is “weird eye-lines and physics” no one looks anyone in the eyes and everything is very “dream where youre trying to run but gravity turned off for some reason”

He seems fairly prone to ego stroking, which internet goers would typically label as narcissistic.

Kind of the target audience for the sycophant machine

As former IT, most people seem to go from iphone 12/13 to 17 in the last year. Anecdotally, my wife and I went from S17s to $300 motorolas. My parents take the rotating yearly “upgrade” offer and seem fine with that

Its actually more difficult to AI generate an image of a map than it is to simply… Find a map