“All of the buffoons excited by the prospect of AI taking over all our writing — report summaries, data surveys, children’s letters, all tossed into the same pile indiscriminately — are missing the point in a spectacular manner. Do you know what writing is?”

(Word is that this ad is being taken out of the rotation, but not unlike the Apple “Crush” ad, the fact it made it through all the approvals and bureaucracy to an extremely expensive public release reveals a broad span of individuals who are frighteningly out of touch.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/31/google-gemini-ai-dear-sydney-ad-olympics-satire/

I hate the Gemini ‘Dear Sydney’ ad more every passing moment

You’re missing it! You’re missing all of it!

The Washington Post
“It is thinking in a form that you can share with other people. It is a method for taking thoughts and images and stories out of your brain and putting them into someone else’s brain. E.M. Forster quotes a woman saying, “How can I tell what I think until I see what I say?” To take away the ability to write for yourself is to take away the ability to think for yourself.”