nicbou

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by nicbou 4d ago
To add: I have started getting AI-generated outreach that opens with a personalised compliment, but that is clearly AI-written. I get more of those in a week than I used to get normal outreach in a month.
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by nicbou 4d ago
The problem is not attribution. I can tell who generated the slop I encounter.
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by nicbou 4d ago
Crypto always felt similarly cynical to me, but it was still somewhat niche. Now everyone must support AI because the entire economy is tied to it. Everyone's bonus depends on implementing it. Everyone's job search depends on chee
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by nicbou 4d ago
You could avoid it. AI slop is everywhere. https://nicolasbouliane.com/images/content2x/ai-slop-everywh...
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by nicbou 4d ago
We're dismantling and selling every remaining bit of trust between strangers, hoping to cash out before it's completely gone. It seems like the only active use case for AI. More of everything! Spam everyone! Drown the world in noi
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by nicbou 4d ago
You do not understand the comment you're replying to either
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by nicbou 5d ago
It's rather frustrating that after they crawled my website to use for their AI without my consent, and using that AI to slowly strangle my traffic, they're not happy that _other people_ are doing the same to them.
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by nicbou 6d ago
I used to sketch and take notes on the iPad Mini. It's a wonderful device for that. It's also nice to use Instapaper to read queued articles.
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by nicbou 7d ago
USB-C and the 5x lens made me switch to iOS. Likewise the 6th gen iPad Mini is what I was waiting for to get a tablet to sketch. Sometimes a device hits just right.
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by nicbou 7d ago
I carry an iPhone because I love the size. I carry an iPad to read. This would be nice, although I prefer to keep these devices separate. The iPad isn't connected to my life, so it can enter my bedroom. It's not a 2000 buck proble
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by nicbou 8d ago
Could it be that non-fiction is less competitive against other formats than fiction? I will read the book they made movies about. I don't feel that way about non-fiction.
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by nicbou 8d ago
I'm not surprised, and I don't see it as a problem. Every clothing store is the same. It just felt odd to blame a small part of your demographic as a matter of course.
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by nicbou 8d ago
There is just more of everything . It's as if the attention economy got flooded in the last two years, and everyone is drowning in noise. Plus reading is competing with all the other ways to spend time. Podcasts are great for nonficti
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by nicbou 8d ago
There is still craftsmanship on the web. I care. But as always, there are a lot of junior devs out there who never experienced their work on anything but their work computer. There are still deadlines and sprints and other competing pressur
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by nicbou 8d ago
I'm even worried about the current and past AI. Look at what we have used it for. Look at how it's drowning out hunan voices in spam. Look at what people promise it will do. I really wish I could see the potential of those technol
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by nicbou 9d ago
A forum for All About Berlin, so that immigrants can help each other. I got a few immigration experts on board and they will also help. I'm writing it myself to work on low-end hardware and survive on a bot-infested web. I wrote about
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by nicbou 11d ago
Like approaching a door and hearing a loud brawl on the other side
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by nicbou 12d ago
There's a bit of that in Ameristan, in his "Fall" novel. This whole part of the book feels prophetic now.
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by nicbou 12d ago
Thanks for writing this. This is how support groups start, when people find out that they're not the only ones going through this. When I opened up to friends (and wrote that post), it encouraged a whole lot of people to also open up.
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by nicbou 12d ago
In my case, my work is being devalued by AI.[0] The same effort nets smaller and smaller returns every month, even though the work is _still_ necessary, because AI does not do original investigative work. It's hard to put work into som
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by nicbou 14d ago
Most of these obligations are self-imposed
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by nicbou 14d ago
210 partners want to track me as I use this, and I can’t decline in one click. Why is that necessary?
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by nicbou 14d ago
The irony of Claude wanting attribution when its work is being used by someone else
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by nicbou 15d ago
I just rub it against my pant leg. For glasses I use little alcohol wipes because the thick grease film drives me nuts.
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by nicbou 15d ago
I run mine under the tap with hand soap.
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by nicbou 16d ago
It’s such a nice museum, and yes the Z1 is mesmerising.
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by nicbou 16d ago
I had to check, and it’s indeed in Saxony. The state does not have a great history with xenophobia.
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by nicbou 16d ago
I live in Germany. It shows as Lake Ontario here.
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by nicbou 16d ago
Sometimes the drop in sales is less than the cost savings
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by nicbou 16d ago
AI overviews are killing traffic to websites that do the original research. It’s putting translators out of work. The replacement is not better, but it’s good enough for the undiscerning people who prefer the cost pr convenience of LLM-gene

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