No, not inflammatory Presidential remarks.
No, not the price of hamburger.
What pushed me over the edge, after a day spent with dark thoughts about the state of the world, a world where a school shooting is the second story on the news, came when ESPN's football coverage revealed a colorful graphic with this headline: AI-Generated Fantasy Insights.
Is irony dead? No, I think it's worse.
Fantasy creating content for fantasy and calling it insightful has got to be a significant sign of the approaching apocalypse.
Google search shoves AI generated responses in my face, with a tiny AI responses may include mistakes disclaimer after I scroll through all the verbiage. Why take the time to create something that might be wrong?
Because it's easy. Because it's easy to blame the other side. Because it feels good to say the subject is in custody. Because facts are for those who think, and who wants an educated populace?
It's so much easier to create the fantasy and believe it is real.
Little Cuter has been saying It's all pretend for a long time. I'm getting closer and closer to saying it too.
It's like an alternate reality, one where facts and truth don't matter.
ReplyDeleteAnd 35% of the country lives there.
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