spicy opinion:

[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.

[viss@mastodon.social]

@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

[xenotrope@bsd.network]

@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."