I'll often use YouTube from my work browser. I don't use it often, but I'll sometimes watch let's plays or reviews. It didn't take long for the algorithm to start feeding me the worst gamer takes of all time--the dudes complaining about women in video games, freaking out over DEI, and generally just hating video games that don't fit into their tiny little idea of what games are. You know who I'm talking about.
It's horrible.
However, there are some truly wonderful and joyful communities littered across the landscape of video game culture. I'm talking about you, The Worst Garbage Network of Podcasts.
I do think there are some big problems in games culture, but once you can find your pocket of peace, enjoying games and talking about them becomes much more fun.
Also, this episode really spoke to me!
You mentioned how AI can atrophy cognitive functions like learning and executing. I've been feeling that this week at work. I was tasked to use ChatGPT to generate some content for a site, and this week I needed to actually write some articles, and my brain was FRIED. I'm talking struggling with constructing-sentences type vibe.
Haven't gotten the chance to listen yet, but I checked out the "everybody is using AI" article/podcast transcription and couldn't help but notice that the two tech journalists, people that know these two tech journalists, and the fans of the tech journalists' podcast are all heavy AI users, meanwhile I only know a couple people who use it? Interesting! *eyeroll emoji I don't remember how to do on my work computer*
I'll often use YouTube from my work browser. I don't use it often, but I'll sometimes watch let's plays or reviews. It didn't take long for the algorithm to start feeding me the worst gamer takes of all time--the dudes complaining about women in video games, freaking out over DEI, and generally just hating video games that don't fit into their tiny little idea of what games are. You know who I'm talking about.
It's horrible.
However, there are some truly wonderful and joyful communities littered across the landscape of video game culture. I'm talking about you, The Worst Garbage Network of Podcasts.
I do think there are some big problems in games culture, but once you can find your pocket of peace, enjoying games and talking about them becomes much more fun.
Also, this episode really spoke to me!
You mentioned how AI can atrophy cognitive functions like learning and executing. I've been feeling that this week at work. I was tasked to use ChatGPT to generate some content for a site, and this week I needed to actually write some articles, and my brain was FRIED. I'm talking struggling with constructing-sentences type vibe.
Haven't gotten the chance to listen yet, but I checked out the "everybody is using AI" article/podcast transcription and couldn't help but notice that the two tech journalists, people that know these two tech journalists, and the fans of the tech journalists' podcast are all heavy AI users, meanwhile I only know a couple people who use it? Interesting! *eyeroll emoji I don't remember how to do on my work computer*