CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@davidgerard
But in all seriousness, while I don't know how to fix it, we really do need to get back to art and entertainment being something that a creator puts out into the world, and not a form of customised gratification. We should have shut this shit down when people started petitioning to get the ending of Mass Effect 3 changed to nip it in the bud before it got to this point where it's just normalised.

@davidgerard
But we can all agree that we should have this option for cutting Strictly Come Dancing down to just the dancing and judges reading out the scores, right?

@Whiskeyomega
Each one triggering a by-election that costs something like £20,000 to run.

@theleftistlawyer I can only hope that level of naivety makes them a blissfully happy person.

@spzb @srtcd424 @GerhardD@olching.social @jwildeboer

Overton Defenestration?

@OGJester
It's going to make a hell of a pop when it goes.

@pvonhellermannn
I wonder why the headlines don't feature his actual quote. I haven't read it yet, of course, but I'm getting pretty good at extrapolating and predicting from experience.

@jalefkowit
My "this isn't a marketing gimmick" t-shirt is raising questions, etc. etc.

@carstenfranke
MS is about to rug pull the actually-useful "AI Builder" connector and roll it into Copilot itself, which will be about a 10x price increase. The response I saw was "meh, it wasn't a mission critical process anyway".

@carstenfranke
Where I've seen it work reliably, it's always off the back of utter nerds who know processes and automations really well. The very unsexy stuff that can't be taught in a 30-min lunch-and-learn session.

They might eat through the company Copilot credits fast, but that use case never be enough to recoup the investment in it. Hence the need to convince upper/middle management that people can't even sum a column in Excel without it.

@carstenfranke
I've been on the receiving end of corporate training on Copilot and it's all about using it for research and organising notes and generating information: all things it's risky to use for because what it does well is be plausible and confident, not necessarily correct. Usually, it ends up wasting more time correcting it, working out prompt libraries. And if you're lucky, the result is.... fine.