Okay, but nowhere on the post does it say “the onion,” “satire,” “parody,” or “spoof.” It’s presented as if it’s news, “BREAKING:”
My point is that if we make it impossible to tell the difference at a glance, then we’re cultivating this mindset that whenever you see a post where an out-of-touch billionaire says something ludicrous, your reaction is to think “well it must be fake, no one would ever say that.”
And then when it’s about something that someone really did say, such as the “millions of years of human evolution consumed more energy than a data center does in four years” crap, people are less likely to believe it when they see it as a headline.
What he said was that training humans takes a lot of water too, in defense of AI. This is a shitpost take on that.
Okay, but nowhere on the post does it say “the onion,” “satire,” “parody,” or “spoof.” It’s presented as if it’s news, “BREAKING:”
My point is that if we make it impossible to tell the difference at a glance, then we’re cultivating this mindset that whenever you see a post where an out-of-touch billionaire says something ludicrous, your reaction is to think “well it must be fake, no one would ever say that.”
And then when it’s about something that someone really did say, such as the “millions of years of human evolution consumed more energy than a data center does in four years” crap, people are less likely to believe it when they see it as a headline.