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by _fzslm 354 days ago
Everybody is talking about how dystopian this is, which... well, yeah. That's kind of the point, no?

But at first seeing this, I unironically felt joy at the idea of being able to directly communicate with somebody real on the internet about anything I like. Like... yeah, back in the day.

Then, the reality sinks in and I realise my social skills are so atrophied post-Covid that I don't even know what I'd say. (half-joking.)

And yet I can rattle off to ChatGPT freely about any old thing...

It's a clever art project and makes you think. Hopefully the creator wakes up to a surprise little nest egg of cash out of $5 bills.

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I appreciate that bud, Thats exactly the point.

It's dystopian, but actually we do that every single day with going to work, with who we choose to use as service or media providers, the cookies we leave behind. Everything is data and our data is being sold by big tech for our attention.

The point of momentarily is to take back control over my own time and say, I get to choose who I give my attention to and for others choose who they choose to spend time with them.

Can't make art without pissing some people off.