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Even knowing this is a bit makes me recoil lol

Not everywhere is a two party state and the difference between Liberal and left is a lot more obvious when you're outside of the American media sphere

Actually looks like Canadian government sites too

It's a tool; it can be used well by skilled people to create a good output

Of course that's true for things like programming if used only as a chat-based responsive rubber duck to help debug or investigate potential architecture. People using it to spit out entire projects is terrible though and it's destroying the open source ecosystem by making it difficult to find projects that aren't jank and likely to be immediately abandoned

But in regards to generating any sort of art media, there is no good output or skilled creators because there's no skill or effort put into it. You're not skilled because you put a prompt into a chat bot in the same way you're not a skilled chef for putting in an order at McDonalds.

I get it though, the state of everything right now really really sucks. When I enjoy content that I later find to be AI generated, I feel like I've been deceived or manipulated and it has me doubting the authenticity of pretty much everything to avoid feeling that way.

I don't know what the solution would be to it at this point either

Based doesn't even begin to describe that man

Thanking your ChatGPT is a civic duty to cost Sam Altman money

Well, It'll work for the founder(s) who will probably sell the company at the height of the platform's popularity for stupid amounts of money.

The new owners (or the OG VC investors) will want a return on their investment though, of course, and the platform will rapidly enshitify pushing out the userbase. Or maybe the users will just deal with it because of the network effect and all. Eitherway the founder(s) will have gotten rich off the sale so they don't care anymore which is pretty much the only goal in founding a company at this stage of capitalism

Compared to Canada it seems kind of absurd to me how much power mayors in the US seem to have

I live in a town house but I don't actually have a grassy backyard, just a small shared deck. I've filled it with as many planter boxes as I can but last year I was only able to get two tomatoes to grow and both were stolen by squirrels 🥹

From the original email I received from them, it sounded like they have an AI detection tool that would automatically apply the AI tag. They said they're starting with tagging songs that are 100% generated but will expand that to any AI songs once they have the tech for it

Yeah it's a wild concept (somehow) but heatwaves in places with buildings made to retain heat somehow do worse than places with buildings made to dispel heat