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by tart-lemonade·1y ago·view on hn ↗
> so I asked him "what value is added to the world by having text that looks like it might have been written by Shakespeare but really wasn't" and he didn't have an answer.

Satire. For instance, "You are Alex Jones during the French revolution. Give a news broadcast in old English covering the execution of King Louis XVI at the hands of radical leftists."

But other than humor and getting inspiration for your own writing, I'm not sure what value it really holds.

> Blind worship of AI is rapidly becoming one of my biggest tells of low cognition humans. I'm just so tired of hearing about AI and I'm ready to move onto the next "big thing".

100% agree. It's like the anti-nuclear movement: the people most invested in it either have a financial stake in it (like coal and oil companies astroturfing) or favor vibes over engineering principles.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: "We're going all in on AI" is the modern equivalent to adding .com to your company name to juice the stock price. It's utterly meaningless, yet it works shockingly well.