Computers became less fun as profit motives and commercialization took over, leading to centralization and a focus on engagement over genuine creativity.
Bitcoin’s promise of peer-to-peer money transfer was co-opted by speculators who cared more about price graphs than currency utility.
The Web consolidated around ad-driven platforms that prioritize maximizing ad views and user engagement at the expense of diverse, independent websites.
AI features in products are often added for the sake of having output, generating “Whatever” rather than accurate or useful information.
Large language models frequently produce plausible-sounding but incorrect content, creating noise and undermining trust and critical thinking.
Code generation tools like Copilot can produce verbose or faulty code, showing that quantity of output does not equate to quality.
AI-generated art and text encourage mediocrity by making it easy to produce content without real skill, diminishing the value of human creation.
We should resist the culture of “Whatever” by valuing hands-on effort, learning, and genuine creation rather than substituting human work with disposable AI output.
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