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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"it's been incorporated into countless applications"

I think the phrasing you were looking for there was "hastily bolted onto." Was the world actually that desperate for tools to make bad summaries of data, and sometimes write short form emails for us? Does that really justify the billions upon billions of dollars that are being thrown at this technology?