The LLM discussion in another thread probably belongs here.
andyprough wrote: ↑2025-12-22, 00:16
I'm old enough to remember when there was a global concern about reducing carbon emissions. But now, we as a society have become enlightened enough to realize that grandma needs AI in her solitaire game and toddlers need their own personalized AI nanny companions. So I guess it's "burn baby burn" again. Good times.
I misread that as ‘burn baby bum’, which also fits.
The conceptual divide between Generations Y and Z, in my opinion, is whether one can clearly recall living in a world before smartphones became ubiquitous. I can, but friends just a few years younger than me cannot, one of the reasons I feel closer to my elders than my juniors the same absolute time apart. Smartphones have taken on the world in storm and are evidently warping culture, society and politics wherever they are found, making them a better milestone than events specific to a given country. (Historians centuries hence will only care about who was born in the second or third millennium AD. But this agrees with my boundary, in my experience.) It would seem the coronavirus left little long-term effect. Even the health ministry’s posters last year mentioned the coronavirus vaccine as an afterthought while encouraging the influenza one, and this year, the coronavirus has been omitted entirely. Because a generation tends to be 16–18 years, I think the boundary between Generations Z and A, once the dust has settled, will be whether one can recall living in a world before LLM and text-to-media software infested culture, just as smartphones did a generation before.
But the fact Pale Moon won't be doing AI stuff doesn't mean that community members might not be interested in it anyway for other things than web browsing.
