> which then promptly uses it to maximize "engagement" to gather eyeballs to feed them advertising.
This is the real problem, right? People don't dislike generative AI, they dislike the attention economy. Yet I see more disgust towards AI than the company policies which suck. I don't understand why.
I think it is more that art, film and music have largely been replaced with complaining online about various subjects as the major form of entertainment in America.
Oh, haha, yeah. I guess I'm the opposite--I actually like AI more than the attention economy! At least one of them is not actively trying to drain my brainpower and skill set and get my to buy stuff and do stuff I wouldn't otherwise buy or do.
This is the real problem, right? People don't dislike generative AI, they dislike the attention economy. Yet I see more disgust towards AI than the company policies which suck. I don't understand why.