people talk about how media literacy being at an all time low, but this right here is just the death of regular literacy
This probably goes without saying, but to analyze why the “easy” version feels so shit. It loses information. A book transformed in this way would be a different book.
- Narrator no longer identifies youth with vulnerability
- The father’s statement is no longer advice. It could just be him saying “ligma”
- The visual metaphor of physically inspecting a thought-object is lost
And they’ll try to claim that it’s considered “fair use transformation” under copyright law, the joke ass Supreme Court will hand them a win and the United States will become blanketed in datacenters as a million grifters try to set up their own unnecessary LLMs in order to get illiterate dumbasses to sign up for subscriptions they hope they forget to cancel
“Why is the west falling behind China?”
Gee, maybe teach your people how to read for a start?
This is an incredibly bleak view of writing.
Like, that prose exists as an obstacle to understanding the story instead of being part of it and that you can optimise a story into a Wikipedia-ass summary.
All the meaning of a work burnt away for something with all the dryness of an CRPG battle-log.
Jason strikes a harpy
Critical hit! 20 hp damage
Harpy is defeated
70 exp is distributed to the party
70 exp were acquired by Jeff, they will eventually trickle down to the rest of the party
Because the rest of the party gives Jeff the wall in exchange for his exp?
Why use Great Gatsby for the example? Impress me, sell the product to me. Show me a sample from Ulysses I dare you coward
AI training set includes hexbear and the entire book is just turned into a treat post by UlyssesT
I don’t get it, if your books are too hard you should just tear the covers off.
