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I had a very similar feeling when I had to start using Google Docs for my job a few months ago; it would "autocomplete" my sentences. On the face of it this is a useful and helpful feature, and many of the suggestions were not bad at all. But many were also not what I would have written, exactly. Neither is necessarily better or worse: just different.

A lot of people write in their own way, often with little things, but these kind of "hey, here's a sentence for you" kind of takes away your own personal "voice".

I turned this feature off.

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This is absolutely the future of Internet content farms. Someone using a tool that can help them to type 10,000 words per day that sound "pretty good". Shudder.

On that note, I saw an advert for this on Facebook this morning: https://www.jasper.ai/

All so I can run a blog to create traffic in order to serve ads...

Recent advances in generative “AI” content give me hope that human-curated indexes might once again rule the Webosphere.

Unfortunately, this will be very popular with schoolchildren on their homework, so it'll become normalised in culture.

Idiocracy was, it seems, a prediction. They just got the time scale wrong, we won't need 500 years. Software means we don't need to wait for social-economic factors and genetics to run their course.

Yet again I have to comment that formal education levels of the parents do not affect the genetic predisposition of prole to be intelligent

And that Idiocracy got the "hereditary" aspect completely and utterly wrong

It was also completely unnecessary - a better and more accurate idiocracy would have people becoming progressively more stupid juste because they can, not because their parents being poor/uneducated made their brains limited

Sorry if this is a rant or too out of topic. I'm just kind of amazed by how Idiocracy progressively becomes this representative piece for a completely bogus argument

Or we’ll go full circle and get them using pen and paper again. Even in the 90’s, the use of computers for schoolwork was banned due to fears over cheating. Why people think it’s less of a problem now I don’t know.

Because it allows to create an even wider gap between the elite and/or rich and the poor/middle class.

Guess who will have access to books, literature, proper writing skills and intelligible when speaking?

It just ensures social reproduction.

Because normal work behind a computer is essentially 90% of what was called cheating in schools back in the day?

Is something cheating when the resource you use to cheat will essentially always be 1 device away? Just call your device your cerebral prosthesis, it will always be there anyway. It’s how humanity grows and people become more effective.

Unless you have a Neuralink implant, that's a recipe for extremely low productivity. It will hurt these kids' future.

In my view, yes, as it means you’re having to laboriously fetch all your data from the cloud rather than having it in L2 cache. Knowing stuff and being able to compute within the confines of your skull is useful.

If we’re to offload all of it, are we even human any more, or just shrews with calculators?

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