Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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In the age of AI-spam, I now treat typos in webpages as a good sign (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I used to think typos meant that the author (and/or editor) hadn't checked what they wrote, so the article was likely poor quality and less trustworthy. Now I'm reassured that it's a human behind it and not a glorified word-prediction algorithm.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get where you're coming from, but isn't it sort of similar to the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument? At what point is a tool at least partially culpable for the crimes committed with it?