Because if there’s anything a link aggregator needs, it’s MORE reasons for people to not read linked articles! Will they also add AI responses? That way users wouldn’t need to bother with reading OR writing!

I’ve enjoyed the last Tiny Tina one actually, except the atrocious DLC, but hated the dialogue in 3 too.

Hahaha, great point :) HELLO FELLOW HUMAN, WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUILD AN AUTHENTIC, TRUSTED AND ENGAGED RELATIONSHIP WITH ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THAT IS TOTALLY NOT A ROBOT? :D

Quotes from the original announcement:

Today, Reddit is the most human place on the internet, and one of the last places on the internet where brands can build authentic, trusted and engaged relationships with customers.

Bwahaha, “most human”? Really? Wow.

A scalable, AI-powered social listening tool designed to unlock strategic value

Barf. Oh boy, “social listening tool” - that’s a new one…

These are tools for a new era of community marketing, one where brands can tap into Reddit’s authenticity

Yup, because nothing says “authenticity” like artificially realigned messages interspersed with AI slop ads. Such real, much authentic, wow…

Guess I’m not a REAL Borderlands fan, since I’m still not going to “make it happen” at this price, and even if I do eventually buy it (and that’s an if - I’ll carefully read multiple reviews and watch a couple of streams before I decide) it’s going to be for max half that. Tough shit, eh Randy?

Great point. Somewhere along the way we started teaching facts and formulas instead of showing kids that learning is fun and encouraging them to do it on their own because they enjoy it and not because they have to…

Sigh, imagine an education system like that, instead of the current pipeline for creating obedient drones, holy crap…

Homework definitely is an issue, and a big one. I don’t find it useful at all, and sometimes it can actually be detrimental, because until it’s checked it can reinforce errors and make them more difficult to correct later… I’m not a teacher, but from a layperson’s perspective I would be totally fine with zero homework. People need some downtime to relax, and kids are people too (or so I’m told), so they should have time to rest, play games or do whatever after school…

I think the whole issue is much deeper, and stems from the fact that we (as in humanity, not any particular country) have perverted the very reason and purpose of education (assuming it ever was clear and uncorrupted, but that’s another story).

Overwhelming majority of students don’t learn because they want to. They don’t want to become well read and spoken, they don’t want to be able to answer questions without having to check on their phones, and so on and so forth. They “learn” because they have to. Because if there aren’t enough check marks next to their name in an Excel spreadsheet somewhere, they’re going to get in trouble. And that’s why, if there’s an easier way to get those check marks, of course they’re going to use it!

Why spend days or weeks reading a long book if I can read an AI summary in 5 minutes and put a checkmark in the “read a book” column? Why spend time on writing an essay, if I can have ChatGPT do it and get a checkmark in the “essay” column?

I don’t have a solution to this problem by the way, because I used to be a nerdy kid that actually enjoyed learning and craved more of it, but the real problem is not AI or LLMs, it’s the whole approach to education (and to work afterwards: see the “oh shit, only a month until HR eval, what the hell were my personal goals that I made up at the beginning of the quarter?” situation so many of us face…)