> "What worries me isn’t smart computers—it’s stupid humans, using the crudest energy-sucking generative AI tools to make themselves dumber, debase creativity and undermine the very concept of truth itself.

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When I see governments and businesses pushing people to use AI to answer every email, goose every online search or even draft official documents, I can only hope this fever dream will pass, that it will become fashionable again to write and create and think for ourselves."

A fantastic short piece, "AI Fever Dream," by Senator Paula Simons. Thank you @Paulatics for your thoughtful writing & advocacy on this runaway hype train that is gen AI.

https://albertaviews.ca/ai-fever-dream/