AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid

How are you using new AI technology? Maybe you're only deploying things like ChatGPT to summarize long texts or draft up mindless emails. But what are you losing by taking these shortcuts? And is this tech taking away our ability to think?

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Wann hat das eigentlich aufgehört, dass man seine elektrischen Geräte personalisiert?

Gucke gerade das Nokia Design Archiv durch, da gibt es viel "ich drücke meine Persönlichkeit aus durch mein Gerät". Window blinds, skinning vom mp3 player, das war schön.

Heute beschränkt sich das auf drei Farben iPhone, von denen keine bunt ist, und auf Sticker auf dem Firmen-Notebook.

#UX #design #enshittificationOfEverything

@PixelRobot pero eso explicaría que no mejoraran, no que *bajaran!*

La explicación alternativa parece ser #EnshittificationOfEverything

Nearly every day now there's an AI-generated "photo" of uncannily attractive women in my Facebook feed. One day they're fighter pilots. Next day they're Native Americans. Etc. The comments underneath are virtually identical and I'm beginning to think they're AI-generated as well. Blocking the posters, one by one. Hope this shit doesn't start showing up here. #enshittificationofeverything
Checking a bunch of references from PDFs today, and man, what wouldn't I give for access to old-style books. #EnshittificationOfEverything