alt Hacker NewsThis is a "fun" art piece, I guess. But it doesn't make any sense to me. I think part of my confusion comes from this site itself. It really presents this information in a very convoluted and meandering way. Like, it reads like a sales pitch, but it also doesn't provide any of the most interesting information they have available (like the contents of actual chat sessions).
It's also not clear what this aims to prove or highlight. I'm willing to just accept it in the abstract (it's like AI, but with humans), but the whole site is focusing on "saving water" when I don't see how this... event(?) does that in any shape or form. I guess it's just a way to get visibility on the problem? But it does so by pretending like humans are an actual viable alternative to AI for these kinds of chats? Is this supposed to be ironic or tongue-in-cheek? Am I missing the joke?
I don't know. It kind of seems like there was some original intent that got lost along the way, and they tried their best to pull together what they had into some sort of message. But it's lost on me.
It doesn't seem like anyone else quite has the confusion you do, even if they do think its bad/flawed/silly, so you might wanna look inward here. Instead of spending your energy complaining in three paragraphs that you didn't understand, maybe just try to think about it a little more? Consider that it might be a reading comprehension issue, which is totally understandable for any number of reasons. Did you read the text on the page and truly parse from it that they are attempting to save water with the event itself? Or maybe that was just a skim? Perhaps its a kind of absurd conceit you wanted, unconsciously, to read into this, and so there it was?