An International Affair

exuberantocean:

sprinkledsalt:

I saw a good thread on bluesky about why “hurhurhur generative AI haters just never used it!” is largely full of shit and, yes, the skeptics actually hate it and question its utility for a reason lol

Like…at best, a lot of people who actually know wtf they’re doing realize that they waste more time having to proofread AI generations than they would if they just did the task by themselves to begin with. I really feel like, outside of certain specialized fields, this type of AI is only “useful” if you’re incompetent lol

We are being heavily pressured (forced) into using AI at work and this is truly what I have found. They have an enterprise model of several AIs (allegedly they don’t share data with the company/model but I’m skeptical and even if true isn’t the case for people without an enterprise model, which is nearly everyone).

If you are in the same boat as me, here’s so advice.

1. Consider looking for another job. Because there is a good chance that your employer believes that they can replace people with AI. They’re using you to test it. (I just resigned and I stop working for them in the end of January).
2. If you have the ability to choose which models to use, I found Claude to be the best for “research” and normal sounding writing. Notebook LM has the least amount of hallucinations, but requires you to load in documents/websites.
3. AI is less likely to hallucinate if you ask it to summarize something you give it than other requests.
4. If you are asking AI to research/pull information, have it give you links for easier fact checking (it will always have false answers among proper ones).
5. If you are forced to use it but have some say in what you use it for, always give it the least important work we’re inaccuracy is less likely to be a problem.

I also think it is important that we raise the discourse on AI to “people who use AI are yucky” to a workers rights issue. Increasingly the conversation at the workplace for white collar workers is “use AI or get fired.” There’s usually no training given, nor any understanding from the C-suite level of any of AI’s failings. Rather than embracing purity culture, this should becone a workers rights issue we rally around.

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dykepuffs:

genderkoolaid:

i don’t think any joke where the punchline is “having a small penis is humiliating / embarrassing” is good. i don’t think anyone who claims to care about body neutrality or feminism or or intersex & trans issues or just other people in general should make those jokes. we need to make it embarrassing to make or find those jokes funny

Heard a good point about this which was: Every time you make a joke and say “Well, I don’t believe it’s bad to (be fat, have a small cock, not have sex often, be poor, etc) but I know that the target of the joke thinks those things are shameful to be, so doesn’t want to be accused of it!” What the target of the joke hears is “I know, as well as you do, that (being fat, having a small cock, not having sex often, being poor, etc) is a bad and shameful thing, but I will only admit it in jokes because I am cowardly… Just like how many people will make racist/sexist/etc jokes ‘ironically’ for years before they admit openly that they believe it.”

And, of course, your friends who have those characteristics hear you and trust you less.

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melagerie:

I have made some memes to commemorate the day

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voidsnout:

voidsnout:

memewhore:

hold on let me google something

what the fuck

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The view from my favorite running spot and the sunset over my work parking lot.

Just felt like sharing some little pieces of beauty somewhere.

ralfmaximus:

stuffaboutminneapolis:

The standoff with agents happened on Jan. 8, one day after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Good in south Minneapolis. Wooten’s refusal to comply with ICE was captured on video and posted to Facebook. 

The agents tried everything to intimidate the guard.

 “You can’t come back here, bro,” Wooten can be heard in the video saying to an agent wearing a mask and sunglasses. “I’m talking to your manager,” the agent said. Wooten responded: “No, you’re talking to security, I’m in charge.”

ICE left empty-handed. Wooten said he just stood his ground, “10 toes down.”

“I was doing my job like I’m supposed to,’’ Wooten said. “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. I just want to make my family safe because I’ve been here three years.”

Link to the article.

Direct link to video. You don’t need a facebook account to watch, just click cancel on the login popup and it’ll start playing.

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santapau:

by-moonflower-deactivated202401:

ecology-of-the-inhuman:

Social Media Is Not Self-Expression

Self-expression is the internalization of social authority, not the externalization of a “true identity”

The New Inquiry

It still drives me crazy that this was written in 2014

yeah i’m just gonna add the quotes that really struck me:

It’s telling that the latest two more relevant articles I’ve read about digital impact on our lives are not even from last year. Besides the one from 2014, linked above in the reblog, consider also this one from March 2023, that hits pretty hard today. It comes to show that since its public launch, the AI propaganda included a quote of doomerism as part of their selling arguments. “It’s scary how fast you’ll be obsolete, so you better jump on, or be left behind!”

Column: Afraid of AI? The startups selling it want you to be

ChatGPT and other new AI services benefit from a science fiction-infused marketing frenzy unlike anything in recent memory. There's more to

Los Angeles Times

Don’t fall for the “everything is changing so fast” narrative so easily. Indeed, the more patiently we look, the more online culture seems to have stalled in everything but its most superficial aspects. But if you listen very closely, you’ll hear a single thing breaking the silence, this sort of weird, anxious breathing. It comes from the investors and con men who wait for an unprecedented, infinite reward for hyping such a big piece of nothing all this time.

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rimonoroni2:

rimonoroni2:

good smut is really a character study and that is final. i need it to be about vulnerability i need it to be about trust or lack thereof and most of all i need it to be emotional agony. thats what sex is for

if it isn’t even a little bit about the monstrous potential of intimacy when paired with hedonism or a dissection of guilt-related neuroticisms regarding sexuality… unacceptable. how am i meant to jork my pingus in these conditions

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silly-signs:

english-history-trip:

english-history-trip:

Broke: Imma kick your ass

Woke: You are invited to join me on the

I didn’t go all the way to Yorkshire for 72 notes

Official silly sign

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