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Comment by kibibu

14 hours ago

I didn't really know what they meant by it. Sounds like "the fact that you do this proves that nobody does it".

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dataflow  12 hours ago

I believe the phrase is used to mean something like "the fact that you found something that is obviously an exception proves that the rule normally applies."

For example, imagine if your skydiving instructor said "if your parachute doesn't open when you jump out of the airplane, you're gonna die", and you replied with "well actually that's not true, Vesna Vulović survived a fall from high altitude." Yeah, okay. The fact that you had to be smarty-pants about it and dig up a random exception really proves the point they were trying to make.

  • irpap  5 hours ago

    In this example the “exception” that proves the rule though was not a smarty-pants special circumstance. Using AI for shopping is just one of its many normal usages and if anything proves it is used by normal people doing normal things. It’s not like the rare example that happens once in a hundred years.

  • adastra22  7 hours ago

    Ok but I’m not sure the relevance here? Everyone has unique needs, if they want to get specific enough. The promise of AI here is that anyone can get as absurdly specific as they want, instead of accepting whatever advertising bucket they’d be traditionally sorted into.