This story is so great because it shows how robotic are so many jobs and tasks. Like, what happened in the reciepient mind to not consider whether the reply was appropriate or not? Did the almost instant response not hint at an automated email? Or the lack of any other content of the email (a greeting, something)? Or maybe people send so many emails or is doing so many thing they switch off certain parts of the brain?
I'm gonna sound a bit like the clueless gym hr lady: I assume most income generating translation jobs are either mandated by law or commercially high stakes enough to warrant a human to do, no? Were people really being paid to do the type off _low stakes_ translations implied that a automated system can replace?
Maybe a publisher will replace the translator of the next Dan Brown best seller with Mythos? Who cares other than those buying it, getting money out of it?
Combine this with a "dumb profile" on most android phones (I think Samsungs support profiles) it's even more friction. It takes time to switch profile and it forces you to authenticate again
So much in modern day consumerism is about "lifestyle" and signaling the lifestyle (to you and others). if you're not paying a sub for your lifestyle, are you really following that lifestyle?
The issue i with this type of "pragmatism" that leads English being the main working language (a language that is only official in one country and even there is "seen as colonial relic") is this sort of half-assing attitude is what created the status quo - EU and european people lacking autonomy in all sorts of social and economic life.
What bothers me most on link aggregation sites - where (in theory i suppose) humans are involved in submitting and upvoting - so much of comment threads "yuk it's AI slop" like it can't me judge and discussed based on the actual ideas. What bothers more is when this shows up in non-/new posts because the implication is that whoever upvoted the post just has bad judgements on what could be seen as worth sharing. To me this is no different than brigading and cancelation
Bad submissions have always existed, if you don't like it, move on, don't engage.
You have 27 governments reacting to the agenda set by the powers on both hemispheres (defense spending, tariffs, proxy wars, etc) you don't think enough influence has been bought?
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