I mean to be fair, I imagine when communities were in blackout things were looking dire. I haven’t been to reddit since, but I imagine things are pretty much back to normal? So it’s clear he can sort of spit on the reddit userbase how much he wants. People will still come back.
They are, but change is scary. And many will likely lose their jobs - especially those who refuse to learn how to use it.
It’s not all sunshine and rainbows for creatives currently, but it isn’t all dystopia either. A regular schmuck could never produce the same work as a professional, even with AI.
Sure, you can pump out a bunch of stuff, and some of it might look really good, but in the end, if you want precision, you’re going to want an artist.
The funny thing is, if reddit’s app wasn’t such a raging piece of garbage, I might have considered staying. But because it’s such a putrid waste of space I literally just cannot use the site any more.
When RIF goes, so does reddit for me. I primarily use the site on my phone, so a good app is vital. And if none exists, then, well… What to do?
Then again, if it wasn’t this, then I am sure they have removed old.reddit instead. And for the few times I am on my PC to look at reddit, I would not have been able to stomach it.
TLDR; the reddit app is genuinely an affront to all things sacred in the world.
The lack of a mobile app is what’s keeping me from trying kbin.social right now.
Alright, but functionally, for a reddit refuge, which one is “better”?
Edit: and what’s Mastodon?
Depends on the university policy. To me, I don’t see any difference between certain AI use and plagiarism. And plagiarism ought to result in expulsion.
As an instructor, however, it is increasingly difficult being 100% certain someone is using an LLM. While the easy spot is usually shorter paragraphs and a final hedging paragraph (the one paragraph that OpenAI included so they won’t be liable if shit goes south), there is still no way to be sure.
So instead, I just have to begrudgingly nod along as my engineering students dump awful, boring AI texts on me.