 The Humane pin is super interesting. Not as a product, it is a shit product and reviewers are fully justified calling it shit. Rather It spotlights how AI shills crave the optics of legitimacy. Nobody questions a negative review of a gaming handheld. But since AI broadly produces a ton of shit aside from a few uses, it's VITAL to shills to gloss over the shit and vaguely gesture at "potential". Now it's not a review of a shit product, you're killing a ✨ startup ✨ building the ✨ future ✨. 10 comments
@stevestreza sorry I just looked it up again, it was “little box of garbage” by Steve Jobs describing the Newton (allegedly). https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2080374/quotes/?item=qt2953368 The NFT crowd had a similar grift. Don't worry about the fact that the art on NFTs is shit. Buy in and hope someone else does the work to make it usable. In the future it'll be huge, so support it now. Same with the metaverse crowd. Ignore the fact that the MMOs look and work like shit. We'll fix it in the future, so buy it now. Unlike those, AI can occasionally be useful for not producing shit. But any attempt to legitimize those uses must content with glossing over how much shit AI produces. Extreme skepticism of AI products and the shills who hype them should be warranted at all times, because these people exist in a shit-polishing echo chamber. They may not even know how shit the thing they're talking about is. In many cases, they haven't even used whatever they're hyping up. Their hype is not about what the thing is today. It's about this vague idea in their head about a future product that does everything they could ever want and is also not shit. @stevestreza@indieweb.social Yeah this is exactly what I was thinking. Any criticism of the product, the company, or anything else isn't valid criticism it's FUD. I guess it makes sense why they fit so well into right wing conspiracies when they also think everyone is out to get them and destroy their precious profits. @stevestreza Amen x 100.  @antijingoist No joke, the first version of this post had "AR headsets" next to "gaming handhelds" but I didn't want to distract from the point about AI. But yes, some of that definitely can be applied to the rationalization people had for AVP at launch. |
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@stevestreza really reminds me of the little box of shit quote