Author name: Chris Lott

One funny thing about ChatGeePeeTee and similar is how they’ve made people realize just how generic a lot—most?—writing is. The new eternal question: is that the robots coming for us or just the sort of standard bland writing whose quality I’d never worried about before? [cue the insipid handwringing; ignore the irony]

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The simple answer to the AI/parrot/simulacra angst is to embrace one's cynicism about the future of human beings, a very unspecial animal that so many hold in inexplicably high regard.

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Monday morning #truth.

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I have a tiny number of followers (and don't follow that many more), but I find myself loath to lose them with a move to #akkoma or the like, despite those systems having some important features I would like to see in Mastodon. I'm a web crawling, typing example of the leveling phenomenon of "good enough" syndrome.

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Thanks autocorrect, but “perineal” is a very different, though often related, thing than “personal.”

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