I’m of the opinion that both are true for different reasons.

First there is a certain fatigue with social media, I would say that social media per se are falling out of fashion (due to many reasons beyond the scope of this post). The social media is mainly failing because of bad Algorithmic feeds, but algorithmic feeds aren’t AI. There’s many things that many people are trying out as an alternative to social media; some to the point of ressurecting the Personal Websites and Link-Rings (as their methods to not participate in the “big tech sh*tshow”).

Second there’s a strong dislike for AI among many people and many CEO presenting it/ expection godlike results from it.

What I personally believe that many people mistake the correlations of theese two things as causation. Yes, they both suck, yes both is happening at the same time, but one has not caused the other.

Oh wow, that’s a fascinating topic.

This is something I’m looking forward to, because I assume it would be more expensive than we think. I hope to the point where it’s more prudent to pay a skilled worker than XY of money for slop. Currently AI is being indirectly “subsidized” through many high ticket investors, and that besically finances our “slop”.

I pray for the day when the AI companies have to “pay the piper” and start charging realistic prices for the use of AI.

I am biased because ATM I have to fight tooth and nail to keep my job because my CEO thinks that he can just upload the company logo to AI, and that AI would shit marketing back.

get a car in any color they like as long that color is black”

He couldn’t have been into open source development since he died way before the concept was invented

How come? 😂

There’s a famous Henry Ford quote: “Our customers can get a car in any color they like as long that color is black”

Ah! A man of culture.

Oh yea!

I know what I’m installing tonight!

It just so happened that in Stuttgart there were protests and police in fact did blow one guy’s eye out of the socket in a very similar way you said.

I thought that you’re referring to that.

You’re from Stuttgart

w they can get Grok to fart out a logo or a poster in 15 seconds and not have to talk to an artist, they’re all set.

As much as I would like it not to be true, I think that you’re right.

Even though the “posters” and “graphics” that AI spits out are just awful/distasteful/etc. those very things are 80% of what people hire graphic designers for. (I know I am one). Most bosses want something NOW! If it looks presentable, it’s good enough.

In my opionion AI would hollow out the “entry level” tasks that small to mid-clients hire graphic designers for. What I think would survive are the “big ticket” projects, where human expertise would be hired. But again, those projects are few and far inbetween, and only a handful of designers are able to deliver work on such a high level.

I’m glad for you that you were lucky to have such friends

I used to own a business with employees. It was a small company objectively, but in a small town where I’m from that was a HUGE deal.

The company survived COVID, but due to total chaos with supply chains that happened after covid, my business got on hard times. I saw the writing on the wall, and started firing my employees and closing the company in order not for things to get any worse. I closed my company and landed a job in another company; a never missed a single salary.

It’s absolutely shocking how quickly everyone drops you once they hear you’ve gotten on “hard times”. All my friends, relatives, in-laws… EVERYONE drops you like you’re burning pile of shit. Want to call an old friend for drinks? You’re out of luck, nobody is taking your calls anymore, because now you’re a “failure”.

And let me repeat once again that I haven’t gotten into any BIG trouble, just closed everything down before it did actually SHTF. It’s just the optics of “being in a bad place” and poof everyone’s gone! You’re on your own now.

Oh boy yes. It’s absolutely brutal how quickly everyone drops you once you hit hard times.

No, and that’s a good thing.

To quote John Water: “If 8 milion people like it, then it’s probabbly not good”.

I used to work in the industry from 2012 until 2023.

Yes, building private PV plants has become exponentially cheaper than it was in 2010s, and there are nowdays so many privately owned PV-systems that on sunny days Germany does often have an oversupply of electricity. (that problem can be solved with Smart-grid systems)

But that’s not the real reason. One reason I see is that because of extremely high grants that has become a fertile ground for embezelment. The second reason I see is that for the most installing companies installing PV systems on residential homes is a pain in the a** and not a moneymaker anymore. Even in Germany many small-to-middle sized companies have gone bankrupt or are struggling. What has remaind are the giants who are able to compete on infrastructure level PV-plants (and who also have other sources of income) or micro-companies “with a single van”.

I would say that the times have changed and with it the way residental-PV is treated by the governments.

Exactly. Most men tend to stop celebrating their birthdays in their early teens.

Yeah, there’s a certain age after which you kinda stop caring about your own birthday.

Hmmmm, I find that to be a fools errand as long as Reddit is “alive and kicking”.

It took a troublesome Windows 11 for people to start migrating to Linux (even though I firmly believe that the numbers of poeple switching to Linux are inflated). (I myself am a Linux user).

Or to be more blunt. Reddit functions in something that can be called Mature Product Phase, and/or Saturated Market. And as long as you have a big main Brand that isn’t suddendly making bad decisions, you’ll always remain a niche product. Take Coca-cola for example. For 99% of people the default choice is Coca-cola, not because they have a strong prefence for it, but because it’s an easy and safe choice.

People who drink other brands drink it BECAUSE ______________ . And as long as Coca-Cola doesn’t do something to give that BECAUSE to the average Joe there’s just no incentive to switch.

The same goes for Reddit. We’re all here because we have our own BECAUSE why we’re here. And as long as something doesn’t happen that would give that BECAUSE to the average Joe, Lemmy would remain a niche product.

That’s not a sign that there’s anything wrong with Lemmy, It’s just the reality of how the Market works.

Exactly that! I have noticed the same phenomena, and it annoyed the hell out of me. All the music exists to please the algorythm.

But more than that I noticed it on myself.

I actually googled it, and that’s how I came across the book “Filterworld” that goes into it even further. And yes, all we’re all exposed to is the same crap that the algorythm likes, so our tastes get narrower and narrower to the same 12 songs.

There’s an amazing quote by John Waters: “If 8 million people like it, then it’s probbably not good”

Oh wow, that’s something that’s been bothering me lately a lot. Not just avoiding Ai generated music but developing my own musical tastes and not having the algorythm-served taste that I mistook for my own.

Here’s what I have learned so far:

• I have switched from listening music on youtube to listening music on my Digital Audio Player aka good old mp3. It forces you to put your own music there instead of just letting it play.

• I have installed the RSS reader and follow many German and English music magazine/websites and look there for what I could like

• I have also started asking other people like friends and colleauges for recommendations. I have received many good recommendations, but I don’t have to like everything.

I’m fully aware that it’s not a great solution, because it’s a technological step back instead of evolution, but the way music on youtube with ads worked lately has really started to annoy me.