It's particularly demoralizing as someone trying to create beautiful things and sell them for food, and it seems like every day I encounter people who do not believe it even matters at all if something is good; that's not what they're looking for. The incentives have always been at odds but hoo boy.

This is a huge part of why so many people think we're in the middle of a widespread "anti-woke backlash": Small movements opposed to social progress are collected into trend stories by conservative media. Far larger movements that want more diversity are ignored or cast as threats.

i hate it here

Here's the reality this example illustrates:

It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).

I am so excited for you