Yes, but what if we did this and it wasn’t crappy?

Multiple times this week I have caught myself thinking, “Yes, we could do that. But if it we did it and didn’t make it crappy?”

  • Students submitting endless hordes of ChatGPT copy/paste text
  • I don’t know how many images I’ve seen this week of that uncanny AI surrealism that just looks bloody awful. Not just aesthetically different, but downright bad, with mangled fingers and limbs that bend in ways that limbs shouldn’t bend.
  • Multiple conversations with people who insist on using the worst, ugliest, lamest, most boring do-nothing graphics, files, and page text.

Perhaps this is burnout creeping in on me. Maybe I’m just a stodgy old man now. But I am old enough to remember a time when people did things and cared. If anything, people used to care too much. Now, it feels like we’ve gone the other way.

I don’t have a grand thesis here. But the crux of my thought right now is wondering if there’s some relation between culture, politics, media, the web, corporate marketing and advertising, and people’s perception of all the other stuff in their life.


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