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Comment It became ridiculously expensive in the end (Score 1) 41

It became too expensive in the end. I got a few until last year, I would get a 2-3 Christmas cards, and I would send the same. We kept it up for the nostalgia but decided to skip it last year because the price of a letter was just stupid.
I know of people who would send out wedding invitations, but spend a day driving around and delivering themselves instead of mailing them and only us the post for those too far away.
IIRC the price was in the end over 5$ pr letter as a minimum. Where I live it looked like they would only deliver once pr week and from the print date on the letter sometimes it took them 14 days to deliver it. It was a poor and expensive service in the end.

Comment Re:Artificial content = Artificial flavoring (Score 1) 49

If you look at the views 100% some AI generated content gets on YouTube, sadly people seems to view it.
It is not just shorts videos, there is AI generated stories, fake audio clips of famous people that is all AI, easy to hide if you pretend it is from an old radio show or a podcast, sometimes you can still detect it in the voice generation, them using modern words or formed sentences that they wouldn't have at that time.
And also many fake reviews. I recently came across a "Top 6 TVs to buy", by the second brand, I thought that the text felt off and they voice was to uniform to be a person, by the third there was errors like "3 reasons to avoid this brand" which then listed 2 reasons. a real person doing voice over would have caught that. and the rest seems like the same vague reasons over again.
That video got millions of views. You don't need to hit a home run on every video. The tools are here for writing the script, creating the voice over and creating B-roll from stock footage and/or AI generated. Everything can be automated easily with API calls.

IDK if people are too stupid or they just don't care. It sucks.
Once they are able to mimic true human limitations, I don't know what to do to avoid it, I would say that I would have to see a person talking in the video to give it true value but soon that will probably be cheap to mass produce in good quality with AI too. :(

Comment I need facts dammit (Score 1) 20

I added to my configuration of ChatGPT that it was important to me that what it says is correct.
Now it starts every communication with "here is the no-bs answer", "here's the straight facts", "this is what is going on, no sugar coating here".
Of course it still makes up shit 60% of the time.

Comment Re:After RTO mandates, who is surprised? (Score 1) 187

No, at the office there is deafning noise and constant distractions. an open office with no walls barriers, just desks with 80+ people in the same room. Laughing, chattering, phones ringing with obnoxiously loud and annoying ring tones they think is cool, people having Teams meetings at their desk, yelling into their head set because they can't hear themselves. People having meetings around their desks, talking past you to talk to others.
And I swear some people just come in to chat and spend 1/3 of the day just chatting about anything with people who pass their desk.

At home there is silence to focus on what I do, because I enjoy working with the things I work with.

Comment Won't help (Score 1) 100

IDK about the American prices, but my problem with it is that it is too expensive for something that is barely food. Even If you just accept that it is an unhealthy snack and you feel like indulging in it, the value proposition isn't very good.
A large meal is even worse, because it just adds more of all the cheap crap, water with sugar and more fries.
With half an hour of work, I can cook someting myself that tastes better, has more meat and does not contain all the crap.

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