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[–] 118 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Those pens had about one working head, one that half worked and the rest dry from the beginning, you spent most of the time just playing with the springs. This seems like a good analogy for current AI usage.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It’s the thing that sounds more useful until you actually get to use it

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Not to mention the way it fits in the hand. I have to alter my grip to accommodate the super-pen and it will affect my penmanship, not to mention cause fatigue in my writing hand sooner than normal.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Someone should inform them that they can only use one of those inks at a time...so they're not getting any more done than "alone".

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It’s a perfect analogy because it seems like an improvement because it seems like an improvement and on paper it is. But as I got a bit older I realized that:

    • I primarily used one color, meaning that it would run out of ink before the others
    • The colors that didn’t get used would be gummed up by the time I did switch to them because it didn’t have a proper cap
    • The barrel of the pen was wider to accommodate those extra cartridges inside making it more uncomfortable to use.
    • The pen was more expensive than a box of cheap pens, so I only had one; since I’d lose pens all the time this meant that I’d have to use a cheap pen anyway, if I even had any.

    Like AI, it’s a novelty that is worse in almost every way while appearing to convey an illusory benefit!

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    A clunky tool that people see as a fun novelty once and then put it in a drawer never to be touched again? Sounds about right.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    Nobody at the company probably ever used one of those pens. They broke or got stuck way more easily than just a regular pen. Which... Is honestly a pretty apt comparison for AI.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    the sheer girth of that pen alone is enough to make it unpleasant to use, great analogy for having AI coworkers

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm not the only one that feels the perspective on the pens are off? Not just between them but like each pen has two perspectives in different places.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    This is censorship I can get behind, well done!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    They have a point. AI belongs in the same place as those pens.

    The bin.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    Re the image in the post: so still alone then yeah?

    Thank you for censoring the brand name 🙏

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Wait, so with AI my company will be fat...less agile but really really gay....err...gender diverse!?

    Wait, I'll have to discuss this with my wife. She said no. Sorry techbro but I'm already taken. Perhaps on a different life? One where I didn't marry and we could all have imaginary computer based sexual encounters with fictitious gay coworkers? Maybe.

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    Wait, will my work-AI-wife solve this & ass me properly or is that just a convoluted way of sending a meeting request with HR?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Remember the tech bro who created a female-presenting AI coworker and then immediately sexually harassed it? And then published the interaction online like it was a good thing?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Thought it said "AI Pen"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I thought this was an anti-AI post because the second one looks like it's a lot more complicated to use.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    selfaware

    self-aware

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