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"Ai is the future. Adapt or perish. Evolve or be left behind." This is the kind of tiresome bilge we often have to hear from ai bros, thoughtlessly parroted out and repeated ad nauseum.

The people who say this haven't adapted to ai themselves; they've merely bought into it, whereas someone like me who hates it actually IS having to adapt to it. They don't understand the difference between enthusiastically embracing something and adapting to it... or between rejecting it and failing to adapt to it.

Ai bros are simply customers who've been sold programs by clever salespeople, so they're in no position to be pretending that they've "evolved" or left the rest of us standing. The techies who developed ai are extremely clever but the developers and the users are not the same. The developers knew that if they were going to market ai programs, they had to make them simple and easy to use because dummies are a huge market and intelligent people are far too small a group to have the same buying power (they're also more resistant to sales techniques). So they packaged it into something that was easy for thick people to use and convinced those same thick people that it was "the future". Now you get thickies using ai and believing that they're techies (and artists) themselves just because they've bought a user-friendly program from a company which deliberately targeted them. They're no nearer to being techies than the average playstation gamer or Google Images user. They're playing with electronic toys, not creating anything and not learning anything or acquiring skills. They are consumers and nothing more.

The sooner they wake up to themselves, realise that there are no shortcuts to achieving anything worthwhile and that they're currently wasting their lives by lazily tapping keys and watching mediocre images appear... the better for them and the rest of us. But, sadly, it's too easy to convince people of a lie when it's a lie which they WANT to believe. Tell the average bone-idle loser that all he has to do is hand over a wad of cash and he can automatically become both a tech-wizard and an artistic genius without having to work at either... of course he's going to go for it. And then he's going to feel threatened when someone points out that he's still the same shiftless do-nothing-bitch that he always was and so he'll respond defensively and vociferously with venom and vitriol because his self-worth is tied into proving that person wrong. Sound familiar?

It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled.

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"Ai is the future. Adapt or perish. Evolve or be left behind." This is the kind of tiresome bilge we often have to hear from ai bros, thoughtlessly parroted out and repeated ad nauseum.

The people who say this haven't adapted to ai themselves; they've merely bought into it, whereas someone like me who hates it actually IS having to adapt to it. They don't understand the difference between enthusiastically embracing something and adapting to it... or between rejecting it and failing to adapt to it.

Ai bros are simply customers who've been sold programs by clever salespeople, so they're in no position to be pretending that they've "evolved" or left the rest of us standing. The techies who developed ai are extremely clever but the developers and the users are not the same. The developers knew that if they were going to market ai programs, they had to make them simple and easy to use because dummies are a huge market and intelligent people are far too small a group to have the same buying power (they're also more resistant to sales techniques). So they packaged it into something that was easy for thick people to use and convinced those same thick people that it was "the future". Now you get thickies using ai and believing that they're techies (and artists) themselves just because they've bought a user-friendly program from a company which deliberately targeted them. They're no nearer to being techies than the average playstation gamer or Google Images user. They're playing with electronic toys, not creating anything and not learning anything or acquiring skills. They are consumers and nothing more.

The sooner they wake up to themselves, realise that there are no shortcuts to achieving anything worthwhile and that they're currently wasting their lives by lazily tapping keys and watching mediocre images appear... the better for them and the rest of us. But, sadly, it's too easy to convince people of a lie when it's a lie which they WANT to believe. Tell the average bone-idle loser that all he has to do is hand over a wad of cash and he can automatically become both a tech-wizard and an artistic genius without having to work at either... of course he's going to go for it. And then he's going to feel threatened when someone points out that he's still the same shiftless do-nothing-bitch that he always was and so he'll respond defensively and vociferously with venom and vitriol because his self-worth is tied into proving that person wrong. Sound familiar?

It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled.