...There's a debate going on?

Honestly feel that the newest generation has a majority of their numbers knowing how fucked the US is both currently and from a historical perspective (leftist tiktok is a big thanks to this). I do feel that there's some differences in consumption such as entertainment that boomer corporate suits do not at all comprehend (I was in highschool when markiplier began and you had streamers making boatloads of cash) that is interesting in a comical way like FB trying to monetize shit already invented like VR chatrooms but within a proprietary environment but not understanding that kids both don't have the money for that nor the inclination to be bound to it compared to buying cheaper VR headsets and settling for 3rd party and open source stuff.

A lot of them slowly dropped the campy nature of parodying romero zombies as well as getting a bit too serious with the plot (love the initial game though having CIA backed Contras creating a zombie virus due to having to make more ground beef for burgers).

And that you still work for a robust trade union that hasn't been hollowed out

I'd say that's true, but also that many including myself put streaming vids and other such content in the background to create a secondary noise while we multitask on something else with brief moments of engagement. Also gotta say short form content that gets the message across far quicker than long form essays as well (Tiktok for instance has been pretty great at creating lots of short form leftist content to help inform). Still there's just a part of me that wonders whether some of the blame can be laid at the feet of new media formats and distributes wanting quicker higher engagement content, and how this isn't fostering healthy attention spans.

Honestly I don't want this to be a boomer ass take but my bet would be it's easier for people to consume than looking up the plot and then reading it, a lot of media consumption is just geared towards a vague understanding of the plot of a film given how over abundant media is. Imagine telling the newest gen of kids that yeah there's the extended cuts of the LOTR trilogy which is a cumulative 7-8 or so hours of film you have to sit through, I don't think current attention spans could take it.

The same people that consumes that slop and will also stare you down wihtout irony and say there is nothing political about Metal Gear Solid or that games like Spec Ops The Line are not anti-war pieces.

So much art and literature both public and private was used to make these types of LLMs and yet no one truly talks about the consequence of stealing that labor and undervaluing it. So many tech bros love to shit on the arts because a robot can make something that is an amalgam of many artists and call it "art" but forget or willfully ignore the labor needed to create that data beforehand, again it's labor exploitation just as you mentioned. Also yeah as used as data scrappers and aggregators these types of machines are amazing and something that should be used, it's just that there needs to be actual human beings making sure the collected data is cleaned and properly organized or else it's just vomiting out useless shit. The humans that do this type of cleaning work are so well hidden or outsourced to other countries that no one wants to acknowledge that there is no way to truly remove the need for human labor and inputs or else the "magic" of AIs would fizzle out and the current boom would turn to a bust cycle similar to when crypto was so fresh in everyone's mind.

Like talking to something that wears a human suit with the cold piercing eyes of a reptile

The newest trend of doing movie plots summed up with computerized voices makes my skin crawl, the curtains are blue because they are blue there is nothing else going on now omg watch this vid that offers nothing of value.

This is what irks me the most about "AI" is that it operates on already created data we as humans have made, there is no actual creation occuring with these LLMs just taking up materials done beforehand by people and touting the conclusion as it's own. Fucking stagnancy incarnate.

The literalist essays touted on YouTube as "breakdowns" are nothing more than fucking summaries and were a key symptom that literacy was always dead to the majority of tech bros and other STEM supremacist mfers in the west.

Having to tell family members that "no you are not allowed to go into a cdiff room without a gown and mask" and then watching them eat off their family members meal tray is one hell of an experience. Enjoy the worst satanic diarrhea y'all have ever had.

Not gonna lie there's lots of studies that greenery really does help avoid that institutionalized white room effect and things such as ICU psychosis, but also there's a reason why potted plants were removed from patient rooms because yeah plants can carry a ungodly amount of bacteria. Still would say the most dangerous place in a hospital are bathrooms family members use after raw dogging into Meemaws iso room without PPE.

If this was China or Vietnam this mfer would get the death penalty

Or it came from Mexico and so means a pogrom towards anyone not is gonna occur similar to the asian hate crimes that happened during covid

One of my fav Chris Hedges interviews was on how he learned about the many times security forces in the collapsing Yugoslavia just straight up kidnapped their employers and ransomed them or just killed them and stole their shit.

True, I guess for modern standards looking like an average idol or athletic woman is average to gamers compared to the various AI generated abominations they keep making