spicy opinion:
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@xenotrope shoulda walked out
@Viss I'm too polite
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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.
@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. -
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.
Long ago and far away, a guy named Scott McNealy banned the use of PowerPoint...
(Imagine 12.9 gigabytes!)
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Long ago and far away, a guy named Scott McNealy banned the use of PowerPoint...
(Imagine 12.9 gigabytes!)
@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?
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Long ago and far away, a guy named Scott McNealy banned the use of PowerPoint...
(Imagine 12.9 gigabytes!)
@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
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@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?
@xenotrope @mastodonmigration @Viss I wanted that color thingy for years now YEARS!! But I'm not a PowerPoint artist.
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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.
@Viss
I was at one of these where the presentera) 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 -
@OchmennoPodcast the argument quickly becomes:
if you didnt care to make your own slides, why should the audience care to look at them?
@Viss Well i do a Audio only Podcast normaly but cons want slides so that became a running Gag
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@Viss Well i do a Audio only Podcast normaly but cons want slides so that became a running Gag
@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.
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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.
@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!
