I'm so tired.

[numodular@c.im]

@pheonix #BoycottAI

[howitzer105mm@pdx.social]

@pheonix I participated in a virtual meeting late last year and the subject of AI/LLM came up. I expressed my multiple objections to the dreck that it is. One of the participants mentioned a way to tag things 'human created'. I didn't follow up at the time. It appears they may have been talking about notbyai.com?

[jerrej@mastodon.social]

@pheonix

Filter number one for (auto-)tagging: Does the text contain spelling errors or editing mistakes?
Number two: Count the fingers.
Number three: Exuberant writing or telling style.

[jerrej@mastodon.social]

@growfediverse @pheonix

In terms of turning the general populace against Gen AI, that proposal might work. Sports have lots of time and cost investments, and this proposal would have all those people, children and their supportive parents and peers, rally against your awful proposal, as their sunk costs (no fallacy here, move along in an orderly fashion) would have the marching down the streets pretty quick. What if we did to sports what we are doing to workers?

[themikina@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pheonix We need something crowd-sourced like SponsorBlock, but for AI content.

It has its issues, especially with false positives being super damaging to actuall artists you want to support, but at this point, I'd love to have something like that.

[eve@evecodes.com]

@pheonix

Agreed. I like to read personal blogs, and what I hate is taking the time to read something that sounds interesting, and then realizing about two paragraphs in that it’s AI. Like it’s trying so hard to pretend it’s real writing, but losing the human composition cues to keep it up for long-form writing. It starts to sound robotic, repeating things, talking too much about a topic, too wordy, saying weird phrases not native to human conversation, etc.

It reminds me of when the scourge of SEO hit the internet. Bloggers wanted to increase visitors to their sites by keeping to the top of Google search, so they abandoned writing organically and only wrote in a way to appease the SEO algorithm. This led to the deterioration of writing quality of blogs and good, creative personal blogs got buried to the back of Google search under all the SEO slop.

[dopascout@todon.eu]

@pheonix @christianrickert

"Highly processed" does not automatically mean unhealthy or bad, as there are certainly nutrient-rich and healthy options, such as plant-based milk.

[martinlentink@mastodon.social]

@pheonix
Hear! Hear!

[christianrickert@23.social]

@DopaScout @pheonix

That’s why ultra-processed food can be considered a different category:

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(publichealth.jhu.edu)

[art_histories@mastodon.social]

@pheonix But it is also so, so very difficult to cut through the noise. If you don't use AI your ability to produce content is limited due to your time. AI spits it out in seconds and google loves new content.

Then there are summaries on top of the search engine so that people don't see the need to visit your blog. Next is a google conversation so that it can give a complete summary of the contents.

It is exhausting. You can't keep up with this.

[jmaris@eupolicy.social]

@Themikina @pheonix ublacklist + the AI blacklist: https://ublacklist.github.io/docs

GitHub - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist: A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist.

A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

GitHub (github.com)

[jmaris@eupolicy.social]

@vikki @pheonix I get you, but i'm not sure that i like the idea of slop-as-the-default

[mintyfries@mastodon.social]

@pheonix I wish I could find the words to properly express to the people who keep sending me AI slop, how incredibly dull I find such content. No I don't care about your conversation with Chat-GPT yesterday, a clanker's opinion is meaningless.

[jpl@norden.social]

@Huntn00 @hugoestr @pheonix There is the European AI Act. Question is whether anybody will enforce it...

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@pheonix "Somebody please normalize auto-tagging of AI generated content across all formats - text, images and code so I can blanket ban them from my personal computer."

I guess I could maybe come up with an AI for that. Don't have a lot of experience doing that, but it seems like it doesn't take much. All I have to do is say it does the thing, right?

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@hugoestr @pheonix Oh, but you will. You will read it, and then you'll realize, and then you will be bothered.

[the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org]

@pheonix ...but it's FUN to misuse AI to make trump look ridiculous, far more so than my actual talents could achieve.

Making trump look ridiculous is a worthwhile cause. It was my absurd brain that came up with the idea; AI just moved some electrons around.

[esnupi@mastodon.social]

@pheonix I am a law school TA and it actually warms my heart to see a typo because there’s humanity behind it. Infinitely more forgivable than hallucinated case law

[simplyxtata@c.im]

@pheonix I'm so tired of seeing AI slop images on LinkedIn and the like, especially professionals I used to look up to using this constantly... it's annoying and shows lack of creativity and care.

[killick@dmv.community]

@growfediverse @pheonix

Sure-- and AI sports get even better because with AI you can re-write the laws of physics. No high-jump is too high. No fastball is too fast. I mean just think if it's exciting to see a pitcher throw a 100 MPH fastball, how much more exciting it would be if it were a 500 MPH fastball?