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       2025-10-14T10:33:30Z
       
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       Again I'm confused at the human urge to pretend something is way more automated than it really is. Examples:- Robot 'chef' that only automates the very least time-consuming part of cooking, serving no purpose but to slow things down: https://post.lurk.org/@jonty@chaos.social/115369437713532848- Automated sock making that requires extreme levels of human intervention https://slab.org/2022/02/13/how-generative-art-works/- David Cope's self-hyped computer-generated music that in practice is basically composed and edited by hand https://slab.org/tmp/wiggins-cope.pdf- Plus all the AI strudel code generators that have totally rigged demos featuring code ripped off from switch angel's handmade compositions..These are often really obviously not what they claim to be so who are they trying to fool? There seems to be some innate urge at work here.. Maybe trying to create a "zone of proximal development" for our mechanical/computational offspring?