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@elilla@transmom.love I'm a data engineer. I've been saying for years if not decades: "Bad data is worse than no data". And, generally, when people hear that, they agree with me.
When I point out that genAI produces bad data, the turnaround to "oh, but, so useful", "early days", etc, is quick and disheartening.
@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe Where's the option for "Starts off with 'never use it' but then uses it once which starts a slow cascade of internal moral decay which eventually gets me 'war criminal' status" ?
@blogdiva@mastodon.social My first was the dialup service Prodigy in 90 or 91, which I believe used its own protocol (it definitely used its own image formats). Technically only a small slice of it was the internet (just email, iirc), but I used that bit, so it counts.
I remember being envious of CompuServe users because they had the "cb simulator" (early text-only chatrooms).
There was a brief period in the 90s where having a 7-letter last name was, well, not "cool", exactly, but maybe "convenient in a neat way". So many usernames had a technical cap at 8 characters and "first initial last name" was such a common way for organizations to assign usernames.
@laurenshof@indieweb.social @seachanger@alaskan.social I genuinely don't know either of the people (or that third person, either) in that conversation, even by name. And yet I came away with a very clear sense of who to trust on technical issues.
And it was not "I talk about this in my book" guy.
