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The internet does not want readers. It wants livestock

grumpywelshman.com

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I will be totally honest, it is hard for me to want to engage with content that is clearly written by AI.

I don't know how people can even manage to read through this stuff, much less upvote it. It's even more depressing to me that a comment her got flagged for pointing out this was slop.

Is Gareth the cat in the picture at the top? Is the cat writing the blog post? I agree with the sentiment of the article but it doesn't have a solution. Everyone has to hustle to make it work.

Hey, this gave me pause:

<meta name="description" content="AI Generated. Black cat laptop on kitchen table. Window with view of misty Welsh mountains and Blodwyn the sheep in the background

So.. AI generated cat? Blodwyn also, or is (s)he a real sheep? But then I stumbled onto this page:

https://grumpywelshman.com/ancient-welsh-hydration-protocolt...

Compare the pics. Same-looking window, same view, different table/kitchen.

So I'd guess the 'sheep' is just a small element of AI-generated pic. With that element looking like a sheep. But why would it be called Blodwyn then? Did it ever exist as a real sheep? Did author know a sheep called Blodwyn @ some point? Was there a real sheep named Blodwyn whose photo wound up in AI model's training data?

There's a mystery unfolding right there lol...

("About" page has some clues though)

Thanks Gareth.

Machines and processes like the internet barely want things. People and companies who abuse it want things, which has eventually the same effect on other people and companies.

Thanks Gareth - we all want and need attention, some more than others. But yes, it would be nice if good manners could be folded in more often.

Sadly, this looks like AI slop. Maybe it means the AI's are getting the idea though. Next thing though, is that they will find ways to weaponize it.

- you are also a part of the problem are you not?

- you are writing a post on your blog and sharing it on HN?

- what is your objective? traffic? email? newsletter signups? eventually sell some course to them?

- it is always easy to point fingers at someone with a bigger budget

The horror that an individual dares to have an opinion as opposed to corporations or councils.

corporations are made up of individuals

The “individuals”, though, are reduced to performing a business function within the corporation.

The writings of an individual human and the writings of an advertising/propaganda machine come from different places and achieve different results.

Did you literally never stop to think about that, or are you deliberately shaming individual thought in a bad faith manner?

- i am just pointing out the hypocrisy

- people cry corporations bad all day but what is a corporation?

- it is made up of individuals

- funny nobody ever takes individual responsibility for anything but wants corporate responsibility

Your argument rests on the fallacious implication that Corporations behave as people do and therefore should be held to the same standards. In reality, corporate behavior is driven the aggregate of the greed of the individuals who comprise its executive suite, not their rationality or morality. It makes sense to critique corporations, BECAUSE they tend toward the self-serving even if it is destructive to the world. Whereas an individual is inherently less destructive, by virtue of not being a) VC backed b) legally obligated to create profit and growth for shareholders c) they have a conscience

Your reply really indicates that you are either completely unaware of all of these incredibly obvious facts, or you are trolling.

found on the always amazing bubbles.town

gareth sounds like my kind of guy lol.

Yeah I want to meet Gareth. I’m that person in day to day life. I can’t make it a day without going on one of these rants.

"He's not wrong. He's rarely wrong, which is the annoying thing about Gareth."

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