Soatok DreamseekerMay 4, 2025

Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI

It's becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand why people dislike AI. I will elaborate. I was recently made aware of the Jetbrains developer ecosystem survey, which included a lot of questions about AI. After I answered some of them negatively (and possibly…

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Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI - Dhole Moments

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand…

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Show threadSoatok DreamseekerMay 4, 2025
(Before anyone complains about the goatse with incorrect numbers of fingers: The other obvious parody of OpenAI's logo is a hate symbol and I didn't want to go with that.)
Show threadSoatok DreamseekerMay 4, 2025
Oops.
Show threadSoatok DreamseekerMay 5, 2025
Hacker News and its vaunted "meritocracy", folks:
Show threadHeathen 🐈May 5, 2025
@soatok
I take a lot of people MORE seriously when I know they're a furry. It usually means they're not trying to sell me (or a venture capitalist) on some baseless bullshit.
Show threadTom Bortels

@heathen_cat

This!

The day the FAANGs start dressing their salesmen as furries hell will freeze over, so it's a good metric. The furry concerned about secops is probably actually concerned about secops, and so am I!

May 5, 2025 at 6:56pmWeb
Show threadiweinMay 6, 2025

@tbortels @heathen_cat that's a really interesting attack vector...

I'm imagining furry spies right now 🙂