[PostOnce]

1] delete the text

2] select any handwriting font

3] replace the text

no one will know the font was changed, no skills required.

AI is going to utterly cripple people intellectually and motivationally.

If you can't even do the above ten second process, you may want to make more of an effort before you find yourself utterly fucked and starving.

[forgotpwd16]

>no one will know the font was changed

You're underestimating the effect typography has.

>you may want to make more of an effort

You seriously saying someone should put effort in editing a comic they didn't even cared on editing until they saw someone's comment? And somehow you equate the not putting effort to editing such comic to being fucked and starving?

AI hate sometimes makes people really lose their mind. Doing pointless random shit like this is a legit AI good application. Something that needs no creativity nor intellect to do. Just time. (And, most certainly, more than 10s.)

[PostOnce]

Two parent comments suggested that a deep level of skill is required to:

1] drag a box around the text and press Delete 2] type some new text in there in a similar handwriting font

The implication is that we're all too stupid and everything is too hard to do even tasks so simple that they take double-digit seconds to accomplish for people with rudimentary computer skill.

We can do things. Saving 5 seconds is going to hurt worse than it helps in the long run... like asking GPT what 2+2 is because you can't figure it out.

[wiseowise]

> Saving 5 seconds is going to hurt worse than it helps in the long run... like asking GPT what 2+2 is because you can't figure it out.

Looks line it has already started. See a therapist, please, you have an obsession.

[PostOnce]

It's better to consider the consequences of possible futures than not to; considering the future makes us human.

[maddmann]

“ AI is going to utterly cripple people intellectually and motivationally. If you can't even do the above ten second process, you may want to make more of an effort before you find yourself utterly fucked and starving.”

This does not sound like intellectual curiosity. Closer to polarized discourse that imho is making us less human.

[PostOnce]

When someone is not willing to even attempt to do a 30 second task, assumes they can't, asserts they can't, and people chime in to say AI is the only way they can achieve it, it seems worthwhile to point out the consequences.

Should we not be trying to do things?

Is it not in fact harmful to give up early on even such trivial tasks?

What happens when we actually need to do hard things?

[ddingus]

Actually, a fair number of us will see the font change.

People are more aware of typography than you may realize.

...maybe you do!

In which case, this makes real sense: "[almost] nobody will care."

I wouldn't, but I sure would note the font change.

[PostOnce]

If you had them side by side, or vividly remember the typography of xkcd specifically, maybe.

But most people I think would not notice a comic's handwriting font had changed, as long as it were plausibly handwriting.

Perhaps we could test it? HN will probably lock the replies due to age before I have time to... I'll see.