Deborah Cohen
@debcohen21.bsky.social
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AI is being pushed on us because they see it as another vast income stream. Apps won’t work unless you subscribe to XYZ AI interface for a low, low price of $99 a month, ad free is $250 a month. They don’t care if AI shits nonsense, they just need your $$$. Broligarchs want to own the world.
December 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
AI is being pushed on us because they see it as another vast income stream. Apps won’t work unless you subscribe to XYZ AI interface for a low, low price of $99 a month, ad free is $250 a month. They don’t care if AI shits nonsense, they just need your $$$. Broligarchs want to own the world.
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I’ve survived over 50 years without AI. I spent that time developing my actual intelligence. In that time, I have found very few artificial things stack up to the real thing & are often an insult to the original.
AI is no different and will only serve to enhance laziness & stupidity.
AI is no different and will only serve to enhance laziness & stupidity.
December 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I’ve survived over 50 years without AI. I spent that time developing my actual intelligence. In that time, I have found very few artificial things stack up to the real thing & are often an insult to the original.
AI is no different and will only serve to enhance laziness & stupidity.
AI is no different and will only serve to enhance laziness & stupidity.
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The audacity of making a piece of junk and then insisting that everyone use it.
"Here's my paperclip and duct tape sculpture. I made 8,000,000,000 of them and invested heavily in duct tape and paperclips. Find a place for one in your house or your 401k is going down."
"Here's my paperclip and duct tape sculpture. I made 8,000,000,000 of them and invested heavily in duct tape and paperclips. Find a place for one in your house or your 401k is going down."
December 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The audacity of making a piece of junk and then insisting that everyone use it.
"Here's my paperclip and duct tape sculpture. I made 8,000,000,000 of them and invested heavily in duct tape and paperclips. Find a place for one in your house or your 401k is going down."
"Here's my paperclip and duct tape sculpture. I made 8,000,000,000 of them and invested heavily in duct tape and paperclips. Find a place for one in your house or your 401k is going down."
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Whenever anyone pushes AI, all I hear is, "Please figure out how to make this crap useful so that I can monetize your idea and prove how smart I am..."
December 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Whenever anyone pushes AI, all I hear is, "Please figure out how to make this crap useful so that I can monetize your idea and prove how smart I am..."
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I, and others, clamor for other tools that we do need and want but are not met such as better indexes and intentional archiving. I don't need plausible sounding and hallucinatory output from plagiarism machines. If I had a human assistant that was so-so, lied, and stole, I'd fire them.
December 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I, and others, clamor for other tools that we do need and want but are not met such as better indexes and intentional archiving. I don't need plausible sounding and hallucinatory output from plagiarism machines. If I had a human assistant that was so-so, lied, and stole, I'd fire them.
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It's a sentiment that's gotten a lot more prevalent since the end of ZIRP, but it's been around longer: that they "took a risk" and are as a result, owed a return.
It also comes packaged with an attitude of "because you can make money doing something, you must do that thing."
It also comes packaged with an attitude of "because you can make money doing something, you must do that thing."
December 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
It's a sentiment that's gotten a lot more prevalent since the end of ZIRP, but it's been around longer: that they "took a risk" and are as a result, owed a return.
It also comes packaged with an attitude of "because you can make money doing something, you must do that thing."
It also comes packaged with an attitude of "because you can make money doing something, you must do that thing."
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It makes sense when you talk to certain types of business bros.
There's a type that feels entitled to your money. Not that they need to earn it, but that you, as a consumer, owe it to them, and they get very resentful when you don't give them what they feel they're owed.
There's a type that feels entitled to your money. Not that they need to earn it, but that you, as a consumer, owe it to them, and they get very resentful when you don't give them what they feel they're owed.
December 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
It makes sense when you talk to certain types of business bros.
There's a type that feels entitled to your money. Not that they need to earn it, but that you, as a consumer, owe it to them, and they get very resentful when you don't give them what they feel they're owed.
There's a type that feels entitled to your money. Not that they need to earn it, but that you, as a consumer, owe it to them, and they get very resentful when you don't give them what they feel they're owed.
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In a saner world, the marginally useful bits of technology that fall under the AI* umbrella would be either background subsystems (as many already have been for decades) or plugins for existing applications, not hyped like the future of all that is good in this world depends on it.
December 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
In a saner world, the marginally useful bits of technology that fall under the AI* umbrella would be either background subsystems (as many already have been for decades) or plugins for existing applications, not hyped like the future of all that is good in this world depends on it.
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The thing is, everyone who was sceptical about email eventually had to come around. Because it was genuinely useful.
If AI really is all that, there’d be less hysteria about how everyone needs to get on board now or else.
If AI really is all that, there’d be less hysteria about how everyone needs to get on board now or else.
December 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The thing is, everyone who was sceptical about email eventually had to come around. Because it was genuinely useful.
If AI really is all that, there’d be less hysteria about how everyone needs to get on board now or else.
If AI really is all that, there’d be less hysteria about how everyone needs to get on board now or else.
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Every time at work when an executive says they want us to start using AI I think
December 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Every time at work when an executive says they want us to start using AI I think
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They want the illusion that the more you use it the more you’ll be able to magically divine if it’s spouting bullshit, but even better if you stop putting in the time & effort to doubt it & double check… and then they have you. Then they can train the AI to give you the “truth” they choose.
December 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
They want the illusion that the more you use it the more you’ll be able to magically divine if it’s spouting bullshit, but even better if you stop putting in the time & effort to doubt it & double check… and then they have you. Then they can train the AI to give you the “truth” they choose.