Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

I don't think we needed Sam Altman to say this in order to see it for ourselves. I subscribe to some nice Reddit topics (like r/bikepacking and r/ottawa and r/antiwork) and they've been hit recently with a wave of anti-foreign-worker posts. Other waves are more subtle, like the wave of 'firefox does not work' posts on r/firefox and r/browsers. I can't comment on Twitter and Facebook, since I don't use those, but LinkedIn and Bluesky are full of generated content. I automate OLDaily posts on both of those, but as always, the posts are handwritten by me. Not that anyone could tell, and that's the problem. 

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