Except social media is not socializing. It's an excuse for not socializing. That's exactly why it's popular with kids and adults.

I guess we're safe to go back to making buggy whips then. If AI isn't perfect on day one, then it's just a hoax. Obviously there's literally no value in AI and it has no capabilities. It's just smoke and mirrors, and if we wish really hard together, it'll turn out to be a bad dream.

Even if the bubble bursts, AI will still be radically more powerful in a decade. As you might have noticed, the dot com bubble burst, yet the internet is bigger than ever.

Or educate them. After all, in a large chunk of the country, we have wide open spaces where wildlife cause accidents more often than hitting pedestrians. People who hit deer or larger animals in small cars never fare as well as those who have the big oversized pickup truck or SUV. We can't educate the deer, so I suppose teaching kids to watch where they're walking and how to be safe is the best we can do. It was a skill people needed even in the horse and buggy days.

This follows the late-90s script perfectly. The market sell-off doesn't mean AI is dead, it just means the phase where VCs throw a hundred million bucks at any pitch deck with the words large language model is finally wrapping up.

When the dot-com bubble burst, the internet didn't vanish. It just stopped being this weird, optimistic playground and matured into a hyper-monetized corporate utility. We survived the Pets.com collapse only to end up with tracking cookies, paywalls, and SEO-optimized garbage.

That is exactly the worse place we are heading toward with AI.

The financial bubble popping won't stop the tech itself. It just pivots the industry from wow look what this can do to how do we squeeze every fractional cent of efficiency out of this to satisfy shareholders. Get ready for the grind era of AI.

First, the VC-subsidized honeymoon is over, so say goodbye to useful free tiers. Second, AI features are going to be aggressively baked into every piece of software you already use just to justify a thirty percent subscription price hike. Third, the web is already getting flooded with cheap AI content farm filler meant to farm ad clicks, making actual search even more useless. And finally, companies are still going to try replacing human workflows with good enough automated systems to cut overhead, even if the quality plummets.

The tech is going to become ubiquitous, invisible, and deeply annoying. We are leaving the fun hype phase and entering the mundane, extraction-focused corporate integration phase. Welcome to the new normal.

It does the opposite. It highlights the subtle rules in C that lazy programmers don't always know or care about. You can't write good code if you don't know the rules.

Gorrillaz also comes to mind... We've had fake music and fake bands for decades. Granted, it hurts a lot of musicians (like myself) to know that most of our skills are somewhat devalued now, but putting our head in the sand instead of learning how to make the best of the situation isn't helping. It's like when drum machines, synths or DAWs were invented. People with less (or different) talents are able to make music more easily. That just raises the bar for what's "good" though, there will still be people who are just better at it than others. Suno lets you upload your own music and make covers of it with AI, or edit it in multiple ways rather than just spit out a ready-made song. You can hear the difference. Even Spotify gives you the option to have AI remaster your track. If you record your song that you played on a real guitar, then have an AI remaster it, does it count as AI music or not?

How dare they use modern technology in their work? Next you'll tell me that they've been using word processors and... worse yet... the dreaded spell checker! We can't trust outputs from trusted professionals using tools.

In other words, everything every other race and culture has done since the dawn of time. The part that is toxic is people like you who think you are somehow better than everyone because you feel "enlightened." You're not. You're an ass.

Those are among the worst keyboards and mice ever made. Just because they didn't stop working yet doesn't mean they were ever good.

Even if courts in every country come together to say you can no longer train AI to do art, we *ALREADY* have Stable Diffusion. It doesn't even require access to the internet to work, so even if the company gets sued into oblivion or they all go to jail, it'll still exist in thousands of people's hard drives. Forever. No amount of complaining will make any difference, so either learn how to make the technology work for you, or change careers, or get used to buying lots of throat spray while you cry yourself hoarse in a corner (nobody will be listening, maybe we'll turn the AI-generated music up to drown it out.) ;)

It's a liberty they're taking that I don't want to give to just everyone.

They have always been subject to faking, since the invention of photography, so there's no reason to ever take any photo or video as real and never has been. It's about time Deep Fakes came along so the people who didn't already realize this get a clue.

They do it specifically because they want to charge you, they don't do anything for free. It's a great AI, but others will catch up that realize that most people aren't interested in a subscription. Put an ad up or two, and that's about it. As amazing as it is, it's still not worth paying for.

It was a far more enjoyable experience. In fact if they still were being made today, I'd want one. Sometimes it would be nice to have a device that is all computer and not made for talking into.