The app for independent voices
This “essay” is an incredible monument of irony. Banal one liners like “curation is the new IQ test” are churned out for poetry-slam finger-snaps but if you look beyond the uninspired platitudes you’ll realise they are worse than empty—hollow drivel that is most certainly plagiarised from superior writing (fastcompany.com/9131940…) running interference for “ai assistance” while preaching about the importance of organising pinterest boards.
Klaus Zynski rightfully mentioned that the tension with AI is mostly binarised by process vs. results.
The side that venerates results does so with the rationale of an economist—prioritising efficiency in a capitalistic sense of time saved, outsourcing over collaboration, opportunistic corner-cutting. The beauty only comes in being able to maximise output.
Those who care about process, care about absorbing craft into our very being. A (kyriarchal) world that quantifies value by output has told us we are stupid and frivolous for choosing the long way. Thus, we sense the quiet disrespect of those who’re desperate for the right to type a sentence into a html box and have it spit out a bastardised Studio Ghibli image but don’t have the basic fortitude to learn to draw.
It is an entitlement to completion supported by a colonial-capitalist mindset and, like all things dependent on cancerous growth, it is a fundamentally unsustainable way to exist.
I’m so sick of entertaining ethical debates with grace. You are frauds and you are destined to become the new norm because the tone-deaf, out-of-touch tech overlords who’re innovating this software validate you by shoehorning AI itno every website and app imaginable.
I will always be here to shout from the rooftops that I don’t care how popular it gets—its prevalence doesn’t excuse your fraudulence.
Occasionally, I peep the “like” count of writing on this app and don’t know whether to laugh or weep. The chronic inability to discern when something or someone smells fishy is concerning. A steady conveyor belt of vapid essays, ChatGPT manure and conservative propaganda shrouded as principled thought are spewed out to rapturous applause. The other work of this particular “writer” includes: Calling Zohran Mamdani “unserious” for daring to champion social programs that basically every other developed nation in the world has, a badly written/prompted essay about how people are accusing them of using AI (which they do use—but they resent the accusation) and a July 4th essay about having a renewed vigour to glaze America.
