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Fred
myrmepropagandistIt's such a sad sad place.
Ima steal this and the alt text over to tumblr did you make it and do you want a link back to this post?
I have not been there for years and after seeing this I'm scared to even peek (but morbidly curious) what is GOING ON over there?
An environment filled with "polite" upwardly mobile people who all kind of want to kill each other now has LLMs and AI images to "assist" them? What could go wrong?
GPT-up a bunch of former fake coworkers to praise and hype you up? That must be happening.
Hugo Mills@futurebird @skynebula I exited last year, after realising that I never got *any* benefit of being on there, even when job hunting, and it was just a source of spam that I had to keep deleting unread from my email.
It was a concurrent victim of my rage-quit from Google.
Mark Dunne@futurebird @skynebula
I have recently gotten to stop engaging with LinkedIn after a period of job hunting and…. There are a lot of people posting — Posting, even — in ways that I personally would not staple to my digital resume.
I have recently gotten to stop engaging with LinkedIn after a period of job hunting and…. There are a lot of people posting — Posting, even — in ways that I personally would not staple to my digital resume.
Nazo@futurebird @skynebula Seems like every single thing anyone says about it without exception is... not great...
Ironically this just popped up on my feed just now, pretty close to when you asked that: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/114344414468722466
FoolishOwl@futurebird @skynebula I'd understood LinkedIn as just where you kept track of people you planned to use as job references, and the occasional recruiter or HR person. Posting my actual opinion on anything on there seems self-destructive.
Just saw this on tumblr. And what does it say that I'm so scared to look at linkedin directly I'm treating it like a creepy gore site from the 00s and relying on other people to tell me what's going on over there through rumors?
"cw graphic descriptions of likedin hustle behaviour"
very legit content warning for safety and mental health.
Though this does help explain why there seems to be "demand" for AI. Companies keep adding it to everything and I don't understand why. It's not wanted. I do not enjoy it.
But, there is a whole world where people are just diving in to this stuff with joy and enthusiasm.
viq@futurebird @skynebula "companies keep adding it to everything and I don't understand why"
Because they may convince some people to change workflows in a way that money will flow towards those companies instead of other people.
You don't need to pay designers, just pay us.
You don't need to pay programmers, just pay us.
Etc
Because they may convince some people to change workflows in a way that money will flow towards those companies instead of other people.
You don't need to pay designers, just pay us.
You don't need to pay programmers, just pay us.
Etc
@futurebird @skynebula plus I guess with the "attention economy":
- wouldn't it be so easier if instead of thinking about that task/interacting with real people you could just get an answer from us?
- don't think about that thing you need to do, think about us! Or at least think about us while doing that thing
- if you don't need to think as much about that thing, you can spend more time thinking about us
- wouldn't it be so easier if instead of thinking about that task/interacting with real people you could just get an answer from us?
- don't think about that thing you need to do, think about us! Or at least think about us while doing that thing
- if you don't need to think as much about that thing, you can spend more time thinking about us
Risotto Bias@futurebird @skynebula (somehow I missed this bubble. possibly because I block the heck out of connections that are pro-AI, partially because I connect with infosec peeps who are tired of it - so my direct network can't stand the stuff)
@futurebird @skynebula (heck my direct network mostly discusses human rights abuses because [gestures wildly at the world])
Peter BloemIf this is going to work at all, it would presumably involve feeding all his clients' communication with him into GPT as a prompt, sending it all off to OpenAI.
If I were his client (presumably also on LinkedIn) I would raise some eyebrows over that.
cwicseolfor@pbloem @futurebird @skynebula YEEEEP. “We respect your privacy and your communications with us will always be confidential between you, us, and the entire internet via chatbot - because I believe when it comes to understanding you and your business needs, I’d rather play with a statistical model trained on every corner of Reddit than listen to you.”
datarama@futurebird @skynebula LinkedIn. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
LikeAMix@medley56 @futurebird @skynebula Even Tatooine's absolute worst doesn't even begin to compare to the grotesque figures that ply their awful trade on LinkedIn. Even Jabba the Hutt himself looks like an honest businessman in comparison.
@datarama @medley56 @skynebula
It's wholesome really in comparison.
ContraindiKateit's amazing how far people will go to avoid having actual conversations with actual humans.
@ContraindiKate @futurebird @skynebula I’m beginning to wonder if on some level it’s not just avoiding the work of humanizing others, but the peril of humanizing themselves, from a fearful equivalence of negotiation with malicious manipulation; wanting to socially exist as an inscrutable black box to which desiderata flow, but without leaking any vulnerable information as to why (let alone reciprocal obligations.)
@cwicseolfor @futurebird @skynebula
It's the cascade of compassion:
once a person starts to feel and implement self-compassion, it's a slippery slope to realizing that other beings are also deserving of compassion.
@ContraindiKate @cwicseolfor @skynebula
This why I think the most horrible torture one could invent for some of these power-obsessed men who play life like a video game would be the gift of being loved and knowing that they are loved (not celebrated, loved, cared for) and the weight responsibility that carries. That wouldn’t be pleasant but it would be … educational.
And for the same reasons it would be so awful it will never happen.
@futurebird @cwicseolfor @skynebula
This sounds like an excellent proposal for a new system of restorative justice. Hugs for tech thugs. Killing them with compassion until they start crying and then keeping on until they finally give up and hit ego death.
@ContraindiKate @futurebird @skynebula Lock them in with a Buddhist monk who has dedicated a year to the ultimate expression of ren.
The Uberduck@futurebird @ContraindiKate @cwicseolfor @skynebula it might work for some rank and file. I think those at the top are much more likely to be black holes for such treatment.
You’d think I’d be the expert on this. I hate socializing. Gives me anxiety. But… None of this stuff makes any sense either.
I hate socializing too, but I wonder if this is not about "socializing," if that is defined as performing acceptable mainstream behaviours as scripted. I bet this LinkedIn jackass is very comfy with that kind of socializing.
It seems more like they're trying to avoid having a conversation, in the sense that you and I are now, understanding ourselves as two humans interconnected by the fact of being alive, and being curious and trying to understand more about this whole being alive thing. For the purpose of better understanding how to treat each other with compassion.
Sarah E Bourne@futurebird @skynebula This is NOT a defense of so-called AI: He's finally learning a skill denied to most boys. Girls are encouraged to play with dolls and thereby gain empathy skills.
Artemis@skynebula Something that I'm personally pondering is, do you even need genAI for this?
Surely this sounds like something a magic lasso and some filters can solve.
Surely this sounds like something a magic lasso and some filters can solve.
Timothy Wolodzko@skynebula and they all literally look the same