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highplainsdem

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2. I've had home computers since the early 1980s and first got online and moderated a forum on
Thu May 15, 2025, 04:23 PM
May 15

politics and technology in 1985.

I don't recall anyone ever suggesting printing out recipes as a selling point for home computers, though.

Generative AI, which is what this article is about, is badly flawed tech with new models hallucinating more and not less than older models, and with stolen intellectual property as training data. It's expensive to operate, damages the environment, and dumbs down and deskills users. Its primary use is fraud of various types, whether students cheating or people pretending to have abilities they don't have.

It might be the dumbest as well as the most harmful non-weapon tech ever.

And it's probably the most incredibly hyped.

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