Post #2093820

2026-04-28 08:27 UTC

@moreentropy @steely_glint I find it annoying that the objections and concerns that the early adopters are now running into are the exact things the sceptics warned of from the start. The downside of move fast and break things is that you're left with a lot of broken things that it turns out were quite valuable. Graphic artists have closed their portfolios for fear of theft. Music artists lose money on streaming platforms. Bounty hunt programs have quit due to AI-slop. Powergrids are struggling.

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@kerfuffle@mastodon.online 2026-04-28 08:32

@moreentropy @steely_glint That said, I do think there's still a chance to use the learnings to get to a responsible, sustainable, ethical, compliant version of this technology. I've seen it do amazing things and I've seen it fail spectacularly. Throwing more money at the unscrupulous as they enshittify this is not the way forward; regulation is.

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@steely_glint@chaos.social 2026-04-28 09:43

@kerfuffle @moreentropy The general direction of the concerns were right, but the _detail_ of emerging best practice is new (at least to me) and not what I would have guessed. For example, to paraphrase one of the commentators, we are seeing a return to the specification as the key to a software project. I did not expect AI to revive the waterfall project dev method ;-) ( to be fair my friend strenuously objects to that characterisation!)

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