Soatok DreamseekerMay 4, 2025

Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI

It's becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand why people dislike AI. I will elaborate. I was recently made aware of the Jetbrains developer ecosystem survey, which included a lot of questions about AI. After I answered some of them negatively (and possibly…

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Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI - Dhole Moments

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand…

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Show threadSoatok DreamseekerMay 4, 2025
(Before anyone complains about the goatse with incorrect numbers of fingers: The other obvious parody of OpenAI's logo is a hate symbol and I didn't want to go with that.)
Show threadSoatok DreamseekerMay 4, 2025
Oops.
Show threadDan BallardMay 5, 2025
@soatok it appears to have not just been shadowbanned off the front but deleted entirely this time? or i'm blind. lol.
Show threadsocMay 5, 2025
@dan_ballard @soatok It seems to have been heavily down-ranked.
Show threadSoatok DreamseekerMay 5, 2025
@soc @dan_ballard Everything I write will eventually get downranked, usually 2-3 hours after it hits the front page. Sometimes it's a small mercy, because I get the dumbest emails when a post goes popular.
Show threadsocMay 5, 2025
@soatok @dan_ballard You could check the referrer and send them a special message, if you want. 🙂
Show threadSoatok DreamseekerMay 5, 2025
@soc @dan_ballard Just added
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@soatok @dan_ballard Thought of something like ...

A group of fish is called 'a school',
and a horde of micro-penises is called 'a HackerNews'

... but this is fine too. 😉

May 5, 2025 at 11:36amWeb