the irony of this is that Perplexity is posting this one 🤣

@nixCraft the number of completely credulous replies in this thread doesn't give me a lot of hope.

Folks. This is a screengrab of an X post, by an AI account, with no link, no names, no data, no citations. "Oxford researchers" would be disappointed in you.

AI tells you what you want to hear. Even if it's how awful AI is.

@nixCraft Not to mention it's a _sales pitch_, telling you how little an AI article actually costs to produce.

A lot of people left X to join Madison because of the fearmongering and hate. Don't let it permeate here.

@toychicken someone posted bunch of sources in this thread, but yeah they do use fear as a marketing tool

@nixCraft yeah, and the actual article is a lot more bullish about prospects.

No 'Oxford researchers', but an AI powered SEO firm, based in US

Not 'all content' but % of _new_ content.

oh, and using an AI tool, on a dubious sample set.

I guess the takeaway from this is:

* Don't let the Fedi become like X
* Don't trust a guy with a Mushroom avatar.