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1. Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2023 15:29:41 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

   With "AI-generated content" all over the place, perhaps more people will get it why I objected and continue to object to using the term "user-generated content" for anything, anywhere, ever.

   It's *people*, not "users."
   It's *created*, not "generated."

   And often it's just as creative as any "serious art."

   Of course, tech robber barons want to make it seem like it's some undetermined grey goo, "content" to be mined and filtered and "engaged with", instead.

   #LanguageMatters

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   • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jun-2023 15:31:40 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     I don't "generate content". I debate, share my thoughts, shitpost, empathize and provide support, and so on.

     Looking at me, communicating and sharing and empathizing with fellow human beings, as a "user" who "generates content" is reductive and — I dare say — dehumanizing.

     It takes the humanity out of it, it removes the human drive to communicate from it, leaving only empty artifacts behind.

     Artifacts that can then be taken and melted down into "data":
     https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/110504808346511129