<![CDATA[spicy opinion:]]>spicy opinion:

one of the most disrspectful things you can do as a presenter, to your audience, is stand up in front of them and do a talk with a 100% ai generated slide deck.

you couldnt even take the time to build your own deck out, and we're supposed to take you seriously? you didnt care enough to build your own deck, so why should the audience give a shit about it?

its just a sociopathic/narcisistic play to get on stage and be in the spotlight for a moment. and its super obvious.

boo.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/9fa84d33-59fb-44f6-a465-6f7e1d25ee82/spicy-opinionRSS for NodeFri, 01 May 2026 11:51:05 GMTThu, 30 Apr 2026 20:24:32 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Fri, 01 May 2026 07:58:57 GMT]]>@Viss @mastodonmigration Completely automated no. Not at all. But, well, it can give some help. I am a blind person, and find quite uncomfortable to speak using slides. Sometimes though, they're mandatory. And I haven't always sighted folks helping me organizing the graphics. We humans can't become biased worse than AI!
But anyway, I think its duty is to be an aid, not a replacement for my own work. To have a good speech, you must provide users something making sense. And auto-generated descriptions don't help. In fact I use to have a basic structure generated by the bot, then I refine and adjust it. Even writing from scratch but keeping the bot's suggestion.
Then I'll never use it for grammar corrections. I haven't made enough experiments in English, but (at least in Italian) it sometimes invents verbs! As an example "flatline", when a person's heart stops beating (medical drama context) it has invented "flatline" as an Italian verb. Without translating from English but using the Italian verbs conjugation.
I love writing, I'm rigid in grammar rules when I can, not a nazi -at least not with humans- and imagine how I could react!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://poliversity.it/users/elettrona/statuses/116498257498369945https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://poliversity.it/users/elettrona/statuses/116498257498369945Fri, 01 May 2026 07:58:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Fri, 01 May 2026 07:32:18 GMT]]>@Viss First it was the worst Powerpoint Default Design then the "Design ideas" now whatever Powerpoint builds in to Help to make slides "pritty". I always strive to have the ugliest slides of a con. That is for a Joke. But yeah in a Professional setting build your own slides. Always.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://literatur.social/users/OchmennoPodcast/statuses/116498152709220258https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://literatur.social/users/OchmennoPodcast/statuses/116498152709220258Fri, 01 May 2026 07:32:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Fri, 01 May 2026 07:27:15 GMT]]>@Viss Well i do a Audio only Podcast normaly but cons want slides so that became a running Gag

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://literatur.social/users/OchmennoPodcast/statuses/116498132880687601https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://literatur.social/users/OchmennoPodcast/statuses/116498132880687601Fri, 01 May 2026 07:27:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Fri, 01 May 2026 07:01:48 GMT]]>@Viss
I was at one of these where the presenter

a) did not know how many slides there were
b) did not know how long his talk would take
c) frequently spoke about something, then moved to the next slide to find that thing was on the next slide and was surprised

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://techhub.social/users/negative12dollarbill/statuses/116498032789587575https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://techhub.social/users/negative12dollarbill/statuses/116498032789587575Fri, 01 May 2026 07:01:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Fri, 01 May 2026 06:54:31 GMT]]>@xenotrope @mastodonmigration @Viss I wanted that color thingy for years now YEARS!! But I'm not a PowerPoint artist.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/sassdawe/statuses/116498004162745081https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/sassdawe/statuses/116498004162745081Fri, 01 May 2026 06:54:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Fri, 01 May 2026 06:12:55 GMT]]>@mastodonmigration @Viss In an alternate universe this ban didn’t exist and employees made a PowerPoint presentations about how commercialise cloud computing and embrace the Linux and x86 platforms much sooner.
RIP Sun

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ublog.mroach.com/users/mroach/statuses/01KQH2PDGT5BE623KD57N0KW4Whttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ublog.mroach.com/users/mroach/statuses/01KQH2PDGT5BE623KD57N0KW4WFri, 01 May 2026 06:12:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Fri, 01 May 2026 05:49:13 GMT]]>@mastodonmigration @Viss I've worked with PMs who use PowerPoint like a canvas and bullshit is their brush. They know obscure and esoteric PowerPoint tricks the way accountants know crazy Excel tricks.

One guy I know has a huge color picker bolted onto the side of every slide deck. He leaves it in because painters don't hide their palettes, now, do they?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bsd.network/users/xenotrope/statuses/116497747368026924https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bsd.network/users/xenotrope/statuses/116497747368026924Fri, 01 May 2026 05:49:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Fri, 01 May 2026 05:25:26 GMT]]>@Viss

Long ago and far away, a guy named Scott McNealy banned the use of PowerPoint...

(Imagine 12.9 gigabytes!)

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/mastodonmigration/statuses/116497653864717060https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.online/users/mastodonmigration/statuses/116497653864717060Fri, 01 May 2026 05:25:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Fri, 01 May 2026 01:27:45 GMT]]>@Viss I don't think this has anything to do with AI. Nobody really I cares how the presentation was created if the content is good and if the presence of a human presenter actually enhance it. AI is a tool, using it have nothing to do with the respect one may have or not have for his/her audience. AI doesn't make a bad presentation good or a good one bad.
There's more worthy battles to be had regarding AI.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116377281084471139/statuses/116496719232936243https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116377281084471139/statuses/116496719232936243Fri, 01 May 2026 01:27:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Fri, 01 May 2026 00:22:20 GMT]]>@Viss I'm too polite

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bsd.network/users/xenotrope/statuses/116496462039410578https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bsd.network/users/xenotrope/statuses/116496462039410578Fri, 01 May 2026 00:22:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Fri, 01 May 2026 00:11:58 GMT]]>@xenotrope shoulda walked out

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Viss/statuses/116496421278648173https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Viss/statuses/116496421278648173Fri, 01 May 2026 00:11:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Fri, 01 May 2026 00:06:11 GMT]]>@Viss I recently attended a talk given by a person whose slides were chalk-a-block with abstract Midjounrney slop images and not one but two different "Who I Am Not" slides at the front.

I thought "No, that's too broad. Maybe just tell us who you are."

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bsd.network/users/xenotrope/statuses/116496398495673603https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bsd.network/users/xenotrope/statuses/116496398495673603Fri, 01 May 2026 00:06:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:12:51 GMT]]>@doctorlaura this is exactly what i mean. if anything, these llms are just a really really expensive way to talk out a thing youre working through and you end up solving the problem yourself. i've done similar with networking configs and some code stuff. little to none of the image generators output is "good". its only 'good' if youre actually looking for high-confidence word salad

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Viss/statuses/116496188826399004https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Viss/statuses/116496188826399004Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:12:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:04:01 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/doctorlaura/statuses/116496154077982309https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/doctorlaura/statuses/116496154077982309Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:04:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:00:17 GMT]]>@Viss it could be a fun party game to make people present slop generated presentations that someone else created, though

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jawnsy/statuses/116496139392309210https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jawnsy/statuses/116496139392309210Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:00:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:48:52 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/paco/statuses/116496094518835634https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/paco/statuses/116496094518835634Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:48:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:15:27 GMT]]>@Viss not even as spicy as your least spicy Etsy offering

Just common sense

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/sawaba/statuses/116495963063868883https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/sawaba/statuses/116495963063868883Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:15:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:07:47 GMT]]>@Viss @krypt3ia I paid for the patreon releases, so I get them ad-free.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/ap/users/116093572746253175/statuses/116495932945977856https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/ap/users/116093572746253175/statuses/116495932945977856Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:07:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:07:21 GMT]]>@krypt3ia grooooooss

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Viss/statuses/116495931249307862https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Viss/statuses/116495931249307862Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:07:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:07:07 GMT]]>@Viss Now monetize with ads

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/krypt3ia/statuses/116495930355948309https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/krypt3ia/statuses/116495930355948309Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:07:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:06:43 GMT]]>@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

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Viss/statuses/116495928752232823https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/Viss/statuses/116495928752232823Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:06:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:02:59 GMT]]>@cR0w @Viss He drinks it neat.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/krypt3ia/statuses/116495914091513728https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/krypt3ia/statuses/116495914091513728Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:02:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:02:15 GMT]]>@krypt3ia @Viss Like Bigfoot

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/cR0w/statuses/116495911175170027https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/cR0w/statuses/116495911175170027Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:02:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to spicy opinion: on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:01:33 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/krypt3ia/statuses/116495908459001520https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/krypt3ia/statuses/116495908459001520Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:01:33 GMT