Instagram’s Rejects Unveil Another Useless Feature

TL;DR – Artifact Clings to Relevance with Generative AI

Can’t help but admire the desperation of Artifact, the glorified news aggregator that’s trying pathetically to compete with X. After announcing last week that they are allowing users to share their pointless thoughts without needing a link (because we all needed to know what Karen thinks about global politics), now these delusional dreamers think they can stay afloat by letting folks generate their own—wait for it—content using AI. Wonderful.

The Unwanted Advances of Artifact

The implications of this are earthshatteringly mundane. For starters, the internet becomes just that bit noisier with dribble not worth the bytes it takes up on servers. This will inevitably lead to a rise in nonsensically AI-generated blogs about the diets of celebrities’ dogs and paranoid conspiracy theories about how the world is secretly run by a cabal of goldfish.

Now, you may be thinking – “But it’s AI, surely that must mean it’s interesting?” Wrong. For one thing, it envisages a future where people become even lazier, outsourcing their tedious drivel to a machine. For another, it adds an extra layer to the problem of content credibility on the web, as even misinformation can be automated.

Final Verdict: It’s Garbage

When this gimmick fails, which it inevitably will, perhaps Artifact’s creators will realize that the internet was a better place when they were just ripping off other people’s work. And maybe they’ll finally accept that no one cares what they think, what their AI thinks, or what strange reality they inhabit where they believe this is a great idea. The sheer audacity of trying to make technology stupider says everything you need to know about Artifact and this godforsaken AI-feature. So, save your energy and stick with platforms that actually know what they’re doing.

Original article:https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/04/news-app-turned-x-competitor-artifact-now-lets-users-generate-ai-images-for-their-posts/