I promise this question is asked in good faith. I do not currently see the point of generative AI and I want to understand why there’s hype. There are ethical concerns but we’ll ignore ethics for the question.

In creative works like writing or art, it feels soulless and poor quality. In programming at best it’s a shortcut to avoid deeper learning, at worst it spits out garbage code that you spend more time debugging than if you had just written it by yourself.

When I see AI ads directed towards individuals the selling point is convenience. But I would feel robbed of the human experience using AI in place of human interaction.

So what’s the point of it all?

  • MrScottyTay
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    12 hours ago

    You could encrypt and decrypt it with keys.

    Or you can do something simple like scramble the letters like a cypher, still able to edit manually but it wouldn’t be as readable and obvious what everything does.

    Or you can can encode it, same issue as the last but they’ll have to know what it was encoded with to decode it before editing.

    Or you can just turn it into bytes so the file is more awkward to work with.

    You could probably mix a bunch of these together if you care enough. U don’t think any are THE standard and foolproof but they’re options