people talk about how media literacy being at an all time low, but this right here is just the death of regular literacy

  • quarrk [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    This probably goes without saying, but to analyze why the “easy” version feels so shit. It loses information. A book transformed in this way would be a different book.

    • Narrator no longer identifies youth with vulnerability
    • The father’s statement is no longer advice. It could just be him saying “ligma”
    • The visual metaphor of physically inspecting a thought-object is lost
    • 4am@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      And they’ll try to claim that it’s considered “fair use transformation” under copyright law, the joke ass Supreme Court will hand them a win and the United States will become blanketed in datacenters as a million grifters try to set up their own unnecessary LLMs in order to get illiterate dumbasses to sign up for subscriptions they hope they forget to cancel