spicy opinion:

[h2onolan@infosec.exchange]

Early in the flood, i was asked to give a presentation on AI at an all-hands. So i put 9 or 10 slides together, all AI generated, chosen to demonstrate the nightmare of this unfolding timeline. I presented it straight, addressing each horror with corporate flavored enthusiasm for the brave new world.

I never had an audience so engaged. Rapturous looks on faces. Several came up after to say it was the best presentation they had seen. I wanted to cry. Complete miss.

@Viss

[tinmouth@infosec.exchange]

@Viss don't think that view is spicy at all.

[ghostsarespooky@infosec.exchange]

@Viss THANK YOU. "Someone" at my org does this and as soon as I see his slides for the company all-hands, I check out.

[ninestonesclose@mastodon.social]

@andreasofthings @Viss now is already stupid

[ninestonesclose@mastodon.social]

@Viss I’ve had this at work. . . Just ask a question about the content and you get nothing back other than a panicked look followed by a totally bollocks response, because they have no idea what is behind the slideware bullshit they generated. It’s a form of modern entertainment for those of us that still have a brain and some professional integrity.

[deftpunk@fosstodon.org]

@Viss This is true for *any* communication. Why should anyone expend effort reading something someone else can't be bothered to write?

[viss@mastodon.social]

@deftpunk so many places are using llms for support now. its gross

[ochmennopodcast@literatur.social]

@Viss Well i do that a Lot for my Podcast Talks. But i have a tech faul Podcast, so my process ist doing my slides and then let Powerpoint decide how tge Design should be, as a additional fail. But yeah for serious Talks that is a No Go.

[viss@mastodon.social]

@OchmennoPodcast the argument quickly becomes:

if you didnt care to make your own slides, why should the audience care to look at them?

[krypt3ia@infosec.exchange]

@Viss Spicier hot take: Cons are not that meaningful anyway. Better to just go have a whiskey and a deep conversation with someone about other things anyway.

[cr0w@infosec.exchange]

@krypt3ia @Viss Like Bigfoot

[krypt3ia@infosec.exchange]

@cR0w @Viss He drinks it neat.

[viss@mastodon.social]

@krypt3ia entirely fair - most of the business that comes to phobos though comes from "someone saw me on youtube", so i've sorta leaned into that

[krypt3ia@infosec.exchange]

@Viss Now monetize with ads

[viss@mastodon.social]

@krypt3ia grooooooss

[jackryder@infosec.exchange]

@Viss @krypt3ia I paid for the patreon releases, so I get them ad-free.

[sawaba@infosec.exchange]

@Viss not even as spicy as your least spicy Etsy offering

Just common sense

[paco@infosec.exchange]

@deftpunk I get slop at work sometimes where the slopper hasn’t even read their own slop. If they cant be arsed to read it, I sure as fuck can’t.
@Viss

[jawnsy@mastodon.social]

@Viss it could be a fun party game to make people present slop generated presentations that someone else created, though

[doctorlaura@mastodon.social]

@Viss On the other hand, one of my team members is a big Nano Banana user. We both spent about an hour trying to get it to fix an image for a presentation we were making.
We got the image from a partner and it was the wrong style. An hour for one image! We lost count of the prompts. Couldn’t make it work, so I just used some basic Powerpoint art to fix it. Took less than 5 min.