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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/dsilverman/statuses/112887601197833141">Dwight Silverman (dsilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 01:10:03 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dsilverman" title="dsilverman@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/76209-48-20230915055945.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Dwight Silverman" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Dwight Silverman</a></section><article><p>Missing the point of what writing is. Funny and brilliant. </p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/31/google-gemini-ai-dear-sydney-ad-olympics-satire/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/31/google-gemini-ai-dear-sydney-ad-olympics-satire/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3460372#notice-6801810">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-08-02T01:10:03+09:00" title="Friday, 02-Aug-2024 01:10:03 JST">about 4 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dsilverman/112887601197833141" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dsilverman/112887601197833141">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2985487">All of the buffoons excited by the prospect of AI taking over all our writing - report summaries, data surveys, children's letters, all tossed into the same pile indiscriminately - are missing the point in a spectacular manner. Do you know what writing is?
It is thinking in a form that you can share with other people. It is a method for taking thoughts and images and stories out of your brain and putting them into someone else's brain. E.M.
Forster quotes a woman saying, "How can I tell what I think until I see what I say?" To take away the ability to write for yourself is to take away the ability to think for yourself.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/887/601/112/163/864/original/9592760859af8b07.jpeg" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/887/601/112/163/864/original/9592760859af8b07.jpeg</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.washingtonpost.com</div><h5><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/31/google-gemini-ai-dear-sydney-ad-olympics-satire/">Opinion | I hate the Gemini ‘Dear Sydney’ ad more every passing moment</a></h5><div></div></header><div>You’re missing it! You’re missing all of it!</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Dwight Silverman (dsilverman@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 01:10:03 JST Dwight Silverman
Missing the point of what writing is. Funny and brilliant.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/31/google-gemini-ai-dear-sydney-ad-olympics-satire/
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1. All of the buffoons excited by the prospect of AI taking over all our writing - report summaries, data surveys, children's letters, all tossed into the same pile indiscriminately - are missing the point in a spectacular manner. Do you know what writing is? It is thinking in a form that you can share with other people. It is a method for taking thoughts and images and stories out of your brain and putting them into someone else's brain. E.M. Forster quotes a woman saying, "How can I tell what I think until I see what I say?" To take away the ability to write for yourself is to take away the ability to think for yourself.
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  Opinion | I hate the Gemini ‘Dear Sydney’ ad more every passing moment
  You’re missing it! You’re missing all of it!

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