10 Weird Distractions from the Great Depression
The Great Depression was one of the darkest chapters in American history. Millions of people lost jobs, homes, and savings; breadlines and shuttered factories became part of daily life. Yet even in that bleak decade, the human spirit refused to break. Families found creative, inexpensive ways to laugh, play, and connect. From homemade haunted houses […]
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Gemini liked your opinion very much. Here is how it countered:
1. The User Perspective (Untrustworthiness)The criticism of AI as untrustworthy is a problem of misapplication, not capability.
- AI as a Force Multiplier: AI should be treated as a high-speed drafting and brainstorming tool, not an authority. For experts, it offers an immense speed gain, shifting the work from slow manual creation to fast critical editing and verification.
- The Rise of AI Literacy: Users must develop a new skill—AI literacy—to critically evaluate and verify AI’s probabilistic output. This skill, along with improving citation features in AI tools, mitigates the “gaslighting” effect.
The fear of skill loss is based on a misunderstanding of how technology changes the nature of work; it’s skill evolution, not erosion.
- Shifting Focus to High-Level Skills: Just as the calculator shifted focus from manual math to complex problem-solving, AI shifts the focus from writing boilerplate code to architectural design and prompt engineering. It handles repetitive tasks, freeing humans for creative and complex challenges.
- Accessibility and Empowerment: AI serves as a powerful democratizing tool, offering personalized tutoring and automation to people who lack deep expertise. While dependency is a risk, this accessibility empowers a wider segment of the population previously limited by skill barriers.
The legal and technical flaws are issues of governance and ethical practice, not reasons to reject the core technology.
- Need for Better Bot Governance: Destructive scraping is a failure of ethical web behavior and can be solved with better bot identification, rate limits, and protocols (like enhanced
robots.txt). The solution is to demand digital citizenship from AI companies, not to stop AI development.
Bypass 403 Response Code by Adding Creative String | IRSYADSEC
HTTP 403 is a response code indicating that access to the requested resource is forbidden. This can happen due to various reasons, such as…
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10 Clever Ways People Have Cheated at Casinos
Gambling is a billion-dollar industry, and while casinos are in it to make money, many gamblers are hoping to strike it rich. Some players rely on skill, luck, or strategy—but others turn to cheating. Over the years, gamblers have marked cards, swapped chips, and manipulated dealers to try to get ahead. But the most creative […]
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@thecanine@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de So I actually agree with you! I think Dustin is taking a bit of a “deep and dark” path here (depression), and there are many parallels to other types of activities that we can all talk to. “AI” or “LLM”(s) here should be no different. Use them, Don’t use them. I don’t really see how it takes away our creativity or critical thinking.
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@prologic@twtxt.net That’s an interesting premise in that article:
The fun has been sucked out of the process of creation because nothing I make organically can compete with what AI already produces—or soon will.
This is like saying it’s pointless to make music yourself because some professional player/audio engineer does a better job. Really, there’s always someone or something that’s better than you at a particular job.
If we focus too much on “competition”, then yes, you can just stop doing anything. I don’t know how common this mindset is, especially among artists or creative people. 🤔 I would have assumed that many writers, for example, simply enjoy the process of writing. Am I being too naive once more? 🤣
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m more worried about Dustin Curtis’s take on Thoughts on Thinking piece 🤔 It’s a worrying time we’re facing, where all human creativity, critical thinking and having to “think” at all just goes out the window 🪟 wow 🤯
10 Creative Technologies Taking on Climate Change
As climate change intensifies, the need for innovative solutions has never been more urgent. Scientists, entrepreneurs, and communities around the world are creating new technologies and implementing unique strategies to combat environmental issues from all angles. While some well-known initiatives like solar power and electric cars are common in the fight against climate change, many […]
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10 Reasons Dickens Would Love “The Muppet Christmas Carol” Adaptation
Since it was published in 1843, there have been dozens of adaptions of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. Many of these try to stay true to the original story, but others take a bit more creative liberty. One of the most popular and entertaining versions of the story came out in 1993 and features a […]
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RT by @mind_booster: Fun conversation with @creativecommons about our All The Music project, #copyright building blocks, #music, #creativity, #melodies, @GeorgeHarrison, @katyperry, @ledzeppelin, @edsheeran, and how all musicians stand on the shoulders of prior musical giants.
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RT by @mind_booster: Copyright is more often a bump in the road than a true enabler of creativity, leading to chilling effects - @glynmoody https://walledculture.org/ed-sheeran-wins-copyright-lawsuit-but-now-films-himself-as-he-writes-songs-to-forestall-more-litigation #copyright #creators href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23CopyrightAbsurdity”>#CopyrightAbsurdity**
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I haven’t been very “productive” in my spare time lately, in the sense that my creative output has been quite low. It feels quite liberating that I don’t really care.