The answer is: “The Dandelion Girl” by Robert F. Young, thanks to a now deleted post below.

I started reading this at work a couple weeks ago, but wasn’t able to finish it at the time. Got a light morning, so I was trying to find it again, but to no avail.

I have a sneaking suspicion of the twist the story was building towards, but I wasn’t sure how the author was going to pull it off, as it seemed to be a textbook time travel paradox.

I thought the title might have something to do with flowers, but including that in my searches did not yield results, even after filtering out all of the “Flowers for Algernon” results, so I might be wrong.

  • Apepollo11@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It’s definitely possible I misinterpreted the sentiment - I’ll highlight some of the phrases that gave me that impression.

    the entire point of this community is to help one another find esoteric bits of media with a more personal touch than a search engine or an AI chatbot. Responding to any post here with “have you tried AI?” is sorta missing the point, even if you’re factually correct.

    So, almost every post in this community could have “I plugged your prompt into AI and it thinks this is what you’re looking for: […]”. What then, is the point of this community?

    to do so actively robs the community of further content, in the sense that the lesson it imparts is, “Don’t ask here, ask ChatGPT”.

    Again, as a third party, these certainly come across as you saying that the community is diminished by using AI to find the answers, and that the original respondent was wrong to do so. I don’t think that relies on a particularly uncharitable reading.

    I saw the original reply - it didn’t say that you “should use ChatGPT instead of posting here”. It did say that you can use AI to easily answer questions like these, but there was nothing saying that you should use it - just that you could use it.

    Anyway, this is a crazy thing to be arguing over. You say you didn’t mean any harm by it, so I’ll take your word for it. There’s enough horrible stuff in the world at the moment without the need for online fighting.

    I’m going to tap out now. You’re not blocked, and I’ll read whatever you reply with, but I don’t think there’s much more I can add to this now.