I know Mastodon is the anti-#AI community, or something, but the generated ALT text that @IceCubesApp offers is good enough that I鈥檇 be pretty much willing to have it on automatically for any image I post. Even when I do edit it it鈥檚 just small changes to highlight something I might want to emphasise. It鈥檚 actually shockingly good.
Got a letter in the mail to my house in Sunnyvale, California, from somebody in Chicago writing to somebody in New York. Same last name as me. First and middle name very different. Rest of the address very different. Zip code on the other side of the country.

How in the world did somebody in Sunnyvale, California, get mistaken for somebody completely different in New York???

For lack of a better explanation, I blame "#AI".

In thinking about the relationship between tech and labor, one of the most useful conceptual frameworks is "centaurs" vs "reverse-centaurs":

https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/02/despotism-on-demand/#virtual-whips

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Mooi stuk over de mens als slaaf van #AI