You know, German has a word—Fremdschämen—that means feeling embarrassment on behalf of someone else (someone else you don’t even know and who is oblivious to your embarrassment on their behalf). I think about that word a lot when watching degenerative AI fans babble about “their” writing or “their” art.
You know, German has a word—Fremdschämen—that means feeling embarrassment on behalf of someone else (someone else you don’t even know and who is oblivious to your embarrassment on their behalf). I think about that word a lot when watching degenerative AI fans babble about “their” writing or “their” art.