For those who don’t want to use Substack, the article is also posted here:
AI craze? No joke, my brother’s birthday is tomorrow. I asked chatgpt to create a cartoon of him, asked tropo to turn that into a 3d model and printed a model of him as a cartoon. A totally exclusive and awesome little model of.him. I’m sorry, I work in cyber and I still have my mind blown from the infinite possibilities and how much you can fast track a process. When I started High school we didn’t had Internet and Iphones and now I can have anything I imagine in my hands in 2 hours. Fucking awesome
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 days ago
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A-non-I, social media algorithms, etc.
Combined with the increasing complexity of software and operating systems, this creates a creeping mindset of “that’s just how it is, only other computers can understand it” or some such. Which I heartily disagree with.
All the more reason to advocate for Open Source Software.