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Re:A shrinking life: Why some Asian youth withdraw from the ... by antegamisou on Saturday May 25, 2024 @12:32PM (#40476058)
I'm sorry for what you've been through and I hope your health gets better. However I believe you've phrased the following a bit poorly, although I'm sure unintentionally:

    some degree of social isolation is just practical and realistic.
Unfortunately this leads to connotations that encourage people completely out of touch with the ordinary person's lifestyle (billionaires, CEOs etc.) make outrageous claims and dictating how they should navigate life with minimum wage and no insurance e.g. that CEO who said skip breakfast to save money, or HN's favorites that we should just shut up and be content with modern tech automating our creative abilities instead of assisting us with menial tasks.

Instead if you had written social isolation is inevitable without controlled financial and health stability, you'd be 100% spot on.

Human, social isolation and practical/realistic just don't fit together.

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Re:A shrinking life: Why some Asian youth withdraw from the ... by FormerBandmate on Saturday May 25, 2024 @01:41PM (#40476561)
> we should just shut up and be content with modern tech automating our creative abilities instead of assisting us with menial tasks

This isn’t true. Dalle and ChatGPT are assists, they don’t really replace anything and make being creative more accessible. AI also helps with tons of menial tasks like code syntax

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Re:A shrinking life: Why some Asian youth withdraw from the ... by ecjhdnc2025 on Saturday May 25, 2024 @02:14PM (#40476795)
> Dalle and ChatGPT are assists, they don’t really replace anything and make being creative more accessible.

Proponents of these tools can keep saying this, but it doesn’t make it true.

Almost nothing these tools can do really helps the creation of art.

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Re:A shrinking life: Why some Asian youth withdraw from the ... by anigbrowl on Sunday May 26, 2024 @02:29PM (#40484284)
It absolutely is. I see plenty of AI art used to illustrate websites that would previously have used stock imagery for which someone got paid, even if only a small amount. Even in contexts where it is used as a free gift (ie adding AI art to social media posts that would have just been text before), it has the function of crowding out human made art by its very proliferation. It's like Greshams law for media files.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law

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Re:A shrinking life: Why some Asian youth withdraw from the ... by card_zero on Saturday May 25, 2024 @01:38PM (#40476539)
Escaping something that's inevitable is not practical or realistic.
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