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by andrepd 316 days ago
"Too much thought into whether they could, and not enough thought on whether they should" could be the motto of the vast majority of AI products.

Algorithmic social media has already destroyed our attention spans. ChatGPT is in the process of destroying the the rest. People read less than ever and have difficulty engaging with anything that takes more effort than "grok is this real?". Do we really need to put AI into the """reading experience"""?
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takigon 316 days ago
"Too much thought into whether they could, and not enough thought on whether they should" This is so true. I can't even begin to fathom the implications of this.

A large aspect of the creation of this app was motivated by my curiosity about what the reading experience offered by an e-reader with AI functionality natively integrated into it. Another major reason was that I thought I would have to make it and use it to see if it was really necessary.

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yinser 316 days ago
Every day I am shocked that books in the public domain on Kindle don't have X-Ray enabled. I am unable to find a copy of War and Peace for instance with X-Ray so I can keep track of all the characters and places. I'm not saying the world isn't going to shit but AI can help fill in feature gaps that the big-box developers have not bothered with.
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