Reading about how “ai” software requires so much power that we are keeping coal power plants online and using more fossil fuels than ever… because software companies don’t want to simply fix the bugs in the software we already bought but instead want to throw it all away and replace it with horse shit.
So instead of a working toolbar in Word you’ll get a magic wand icon that makes arbitrary changes to your document and your town will turn into a swamp or desert and you will still spend thirty minutes trying to remove that extra table cell.
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