I personally consider "I asked ChatGPT to generate a response to you" not witty but a form of an insult.
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@tante Agreed
I explicitly note in emails that there was no use of AI/LLM’s in any way, just to make it clear
@tante@tldr.nettime.org @stux@mstdn.social
hows it going?
5x3 inane tangent sentences separated by single space.
never mind
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I personally consider "I asked ChatGPT to generate a response to you" not witty but a form of an insult. Don't do that please. If that is how you want to talk to people at least don't tell me. It's offensive.
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I personally consider "I asked ChatGPT to generate a response to you" not witty but a form of an insult. Don't do that please. If that is how you want to talk to people at least don't tell me. It's offensive.
@tante I usually respond “Sorry, I’m not going to read what you didn’t write.”
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@tante I know a person who has, in an actual face-to-face conversation with me, pulled out his phone to ask ChatGPT what to say to me.
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I personally consider "I asked ChatGPT to generate a response to you" not witty but a form of an insult. Don't do that please. If that is how you want to talk to people at least don't tell me. It's offensive.
I had this happen at work and I quietly removed that person from the project
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@tante "let me google that for you" is a great insult from the ancients (~2005)
@thomasfuchs @tante Google has become so unusable that "let me Google that for you" in 2026 sounds less like snark and more like a kind offer to take one for the team.
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@tante I maker my own LLM and learn it with feeds that I scrape from the net to regard that or fallback to cloud DataBase if not covered and no need for internet nor API ...
@zer0unplanned You don’t know what an LLM is, do you?
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I personally consider "I asked ChatGPT to generate a response to you" not witty but a form of an insult. Don't do that please. If that is how you want to talk to people at least don't tell me. It's offensive.
The tech industry spent years and billions to create real world products to help businesses get ahead.
https://futurism.com/future-society/data-center-trump-stargate
Trump names Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, Larry Ellison to tech council that will weigh in on AI
President Trump appointed Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to a council that will weigh in on AI policy and other issues, the White House said Wednesday.
New York Post (nypost.com)
Now the entire industry has been subsumed into furthering fossil fuel funded fascism, scams, & state surveillance data harvesting.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/23/mps-urge-uk-government-halt-palantir-contract-fca
Watchdog calls for review of Oracle-Pentagon contract
The contract with Oracle ultimately came in at $280 million over budget and was seven years behind schedule.
Washington Examiner (www.washingtonexaminer.com)
'Very significant privacy concerns': UK hands over financial regulation data to Palantir to help tackle financial crime
Palantir is doing a trial contract
TechRadar (www.techradar.com)
Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data
Exclusive: Allowing US tech firm to analyse intelligence in name of tackling fraud raises fresh concerns over privacy
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles | Owen Jones
We’re watching the Orbánisation of the US – and as in Hungary, control of the media is key to consolidating power, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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I personally consider "I asked ChatGPT to generate a response to you" not witty but a form of an insult. Don't do that please. If that is how you want to talk to people at least don't tell me. It's offensive.
@tante Why? Because it suggests you are not smart enough to do something? Or some other reason?
I guess it is transparent. It provides help (the best given person can give, probably), the source and instructions how to get it by yourself in the future. If you don't like it, you can just ignore the answer. Or person.
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The tech industry spent years and billions to create real world products to help businesses get ahead.
https://futurism.com/future-society/data-center-trump-stargate
Trump names Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, Larry Ellison to tech council that will weigh in on AI
President Trump appointed Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to a council that will weigh in on AI policy and other issues, the White House said Wednesday.
New York Post (nypost.com)
Now the entire industry has been subsumed into furthering fossil fuel funded fascism, scams, & state surveillance data harvesting.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/23/mps-urge-uk-government-halt-palantir-contract-fca
Watchdog calls for review of Oracle-Pentagon contract
The contract with Oracle ultimately came in at $280 million over budget and was seven years behind schedule.
Washington Examiner (www.washingtonexaminer.com)
'Very significant privacy concerns': UK hands over financial regulation data to Palantir to help tackle financial crime
Palantir is doing a trial contract
TechRadar (www.techradar.com)
Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data
Exclusive: Allowing US tech firm to analyse intelligence in name of tackling fraud raises fresh concerns over privacy
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles | Owen Jones
We’re watching the Orbánisation of the US – and as in Hungary, control of the media is key to consolidating power, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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These organizations are ignoring the tech needs of the real world economy in favor of creating a global financial collapse instead.
They act like corrupt government contracts, Goebbels-style propaganda, Wall Street frauds, & oil oligarchy is the only possible niches available for the future.
How Globalized Fraud Made Its Way into Silicon Valley
Nearly a fifth of Meta’s China revenue, more than $3 billion annually, was tied to scams, illegal gambling, and banned products.
Modern Diplomacy (moderndiplomacy.eu)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/tech/openai-sam-altman-fraud-crisis
Jorge Stolfi: ‘Technologically, bitcoin and blockchain technology is garbage’
A tweet by the Brazilian computer science professor inspired 1,500 experts to write a letter to US Congress warning about the risks of blindly trusting cryptocurrencies
EL PAÍS English (english.elpais.com)
Their end-times head-space is profoundly harmful.
https://wlockett.medium.com/peter-thiel-just-revealed-how-utterly-screwed-the-entire-ai-industry-is-df7a6e4d5d60
The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession
Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.
WIRED (www.wired.com)
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@tante Why? Because it suggests you are not smart enough to do something? Or some other reason?
I guess it is transparent. It provides help (the best given person can give, probably), the source and instructions how to get it by yourself in the future. If you don't like it, you can just ignore the answer. Or person.
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I personally consider "I asked ChatGPT to generate a response to you" not witty but a form of an insult. Don't do that please. If that is how you want to talk to people at least don't tell me. It's offensive.
@tante “AI:DR” is definitely my mindset. The ol’ “if you can’t bother writing it I won’t bother reading it” stance.
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@drahardja @tante No. I was so shocked I basically just got stunned and didn't know what to do. It felt so absurd that my brain felt like it had to do a hard reset.
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@drahardja @tante No. I was so shocked I basically just got stunned and didn't know what to do. It felt so absurd that my brain felt like it had to do a hard reset.
@datarama @drahardja @tante This comic strip came to mind immediately.
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@datarama @drahardja @tante This comic strip came to mind immediately.
@algernon @drahardja @tante This guy was outsourcing his conversational skills to ChatGPT in early 2024!
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I personally consider "I asked ChatGPT to generate a response to you" not witty but a form of an insult. Don't do that please. If that is how you want to talk to people at least don't tell me. It's offensive.
@tante Old people as an example love Gemini you know?
