Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it
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they look forward to turning chatbots into a sea of spam:
We expect rapid adoption of advertising models, transaction fees, affiliate revenue, and marketplace models.
We’re doomed.
In the last weeks Pinterest became unusable imo. The AI “sea of spam” is no joke. 7 in 10 posts are ads now. AI ads. Every one of them is a grotesque AI mimic of the content you’re viewing, all words meaningless gibberish. The things on the thumbnails suggest, but you can’t make things really out by just seeing the thumbnails.
So i clicked them a few times too much. First by curiosity, then by mistake, because Pinterest does everything to make an ad look like a post.
7 in 10 posts.
After all these years successfully procrastinating with Pinterest, it has become a dopamine blocking experience.
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they look forward to turning chatbots into a sea of spam:
We expect rapid adoption of advertising models, transaction fees, affiliate revenue, and marketplace models.
We’re doomed.
In the last weeks Pinterest became unusable imo. The AI “sea of spam” is no joke. 7 in 10 posts are ads now. AI ads. Every one of them is a grotesque AI mimic of the content you’re viewing, all words meaningless gibberish. The things on the thumbnails suggest, but you can’t make things really out by just seeing the thumbnails.
So i clicked them a few times too much. First by curiosity, then by mistake, because Pinterest does everything to make an ad look like a post.
7 in 10 posts.
After all these years successfully procrastinating with Pinterest, it has become a dopamine blocking experience.
Meanwhile, we are losing our jobs to these slop generators, so all the extra advertising is in vain, because we won't be able to buy the products and services.
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Meanwhile, we are losing our jobs to these slop generators, so all the extra advertising is in vain, because we won't be able to buy the products and services.
@EricLawton @kamenlady @dgerard "Come witness the violence inherent in the system!"
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I pay. Shits helping me with missing commas and reworking my passive wording… Which I do a lot…
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I pay. Shits helping me with missing commas and reworking my passive wording… Which I do a lot…
Writing advisers have been condemning the English passive since the early 20th century. I provide an informal but comprehensive syntactic description of passive clauses in English, and then exhibit numerous published examples of incompetent criticism in which critics reveal that they cannot tell passives from actives. Some seem to confuse the grammatical concept with a rhetorical one involving inadequate attribution of agency or responsibility, but not all examples are thus explained. The specific stylistic charges leveled against the passive are entirely baseless.
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Writing advisers have been condemning the English passive since the early 20th century. I provide an informal but comprehensive syntactic description of passive clauses in English, and then exhibit numerous published examples of incompetent criticism in which critics reveal that they cannot tell passives from actives. Some seem to confuse the grammatical concept with a rhetorical one involving inadequate attribution of agency or responsibility, but not all examples are thus explained. The specific stylistic charges leveled against the passive are entirely baseless.
Wait what, TIL there was/is a crusade against… the passive fucking voice?
Some people just need to invent problems for their life to feel meaningful, don’t they
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Wait what, TIL there was/is a crusade against… the passive fucking voice?
Some people just need to invent problems for their life to feel meaningful, don’t they
@V0ldek This is a hill I will die on: the passive voice ABSOLUTELY does not belong in a work of fiction. (Academic papers and reports are another matter entirely, but fiction: no.)
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@V0ldek This is a hill I will die on: the passive voice ABSOLUTELY does not belong in a work of fiction. (Academic papers and reports are another matter entirely, but fiction: no.)
My immediate gut reaction to a rule as general as this is that there’s fat chance it’s universally applicable, there will always be cases where active would be clunky.
Like I can’t imagine an RPG protagonist exclaiming that “Someone trapped this chest!” instead of the 100% more natural “This chest was trapped!”
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My immediate gut reaction to a rule as general as this is that there’s fat chance it’s universally applicable, there will always be cases where active would be clunky.
Like I can’t imagine an RPG protagonist exclaiming that “Someone trapped this chest!” instead of the 100% more natural “This chest was trapped!”
@V0ldek That's an RPG protagonist protagging. Not prose fiction. (This thought brought to you b/c I've lately been reading a multivolume LitRPG epic that I had to bail on midway through book 3 because the author dropped into passive voice with extreme clunkiness at random, infrequent intervals, making for a jarring read.)
