It's cheaper. That's, like, the only reason ever the mass market adopts any alternative.

And usually better, too.

My drip coffee maker makes me coffee that I find more enjoyable than stuff from a barista at a fraction of the price.

I've always taken :/ to be a kind of hopeless dejection mixed with apathy. In this case, it seems to convey their disappointment in their skills as well as the futility of improving

I use it for "disconcerted", but I guess any situation that would result in a diagonal mouth irl would be fine.

Nobody is proud of this. Where the hell did you get that idea?

I think weak and scared people tend to not want to face the truth about AI. I said the above not because I support it (I don't), I said it because it's the god awful truth. All trendlines point to steadily improving AI, and tons and tons of people continue to call it slop even though it is clearly becoming better.

My question for you is, in order to sleep at night do you have to lie to yourself? Do you make up stories about how AI will never be as good as human intelligence and do you assume anyone who says the contrary is an ardent supporter of AI? Have you thought that... maybe nobody really supports AI, they're just telling the truth?

Weird my ass, just stupid people who clearly assume the wrong thing.

Speaking as a relatively unprivileged kid from Southeast Asia, my parents were so busy working they just didn't have time and energy to care about me, let alone how well i fold my laundry.

But that's just one data point.