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by willismichael 45 days ago
Maybe I missed the /s, but why do we have to spend our time "looking at content" if it's just full of AI slop?
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Alternatives are boring, expensive, or require effort.
If our hormonal reward systems are so fried that low-effort staring at a screen has become the most rewarding thing to do with our time, then the content industry has played us like a fiddle.
Look around on a train sometime at what people are doing.
Understood. Admittedly I'm as guilty as anybody else, but lately I'm trying to take more time away from digital media to spend face-to-face time with people, look at real scenery, and practice physical hobbies.