Comment on When I was a kid, computers expanded your mind and your freedoms, bringing power to the individual. With AI, now it does the thinking for you, takes your job, gives power only to a few billionaires.

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pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

was dotcom this annoying too?

Surprisingly, it was not this annoying.

It was very annoying, but at least there was an end in sight, and some of it was useful.

We all knew that www.only-socks-and-only-for-cats.com was going away, but eBay was still pretty great.

In contrast, we’re all standing around today looking at many times the world’s GDP being bet on a pretty good autocomplete algorithm waking up and becoming fully sentient.

It feels like a different level of irrational.

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