[object Object]my favorite thing about the slop era is when you get an LLM booster really mad and they reveal the tasks they’re doing that can’t be accomplished without AI and it’s all really basic text editing they never learned to do properly
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Glyph@pozorvlak @Migueldeicaza @matt However, to reiterate and clarify what I have said above, I am still not interested in *using* these things even if they do one day become extremely effective because the *mechanism* is plagiarism, and thus, both unethical and unsustainable. It is a blessing that they are still, in aggregate, extremely ineffective, and we still might have a chance to fight their adoption on that basis even for those who have no moral compass.
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use.
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The thing that “AIs” are the best at is turning every communication into a conflict, where the LLM user is the attacker and the person who has to consume its output is the defender. https://blog.glyph.im/2026/06/adversarial-communication.html
The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙I love that on the regular internet, you can be like "I need to find out what part this is on my 2025 car" and all the results you get back are for car rentals, people trying to sell you a car, trying to buy your car, or AI slop videos explaining to you what a car is in the least intelligible way possible.
But... in the #Fediverse you can be like "anybody know the correct wiring layout and voltages for a 1974 "Passion-o-Meter" novelty Love Tester from Hanlon Amusements in Fairbanks, Alabama? I found one while doing recreational free diving in a cave system in Peru and I'm trying to put it back together again" and not only does NOBODY question any part of the insane statement made, but three people who happen to specialize in that exact sort of thing immediately emerge from the woodwork like the reverse of Homer Simpson going into the hedge.
jonny (nonvenomous)Its awesome how Google's defense here is "everyone knows not to believe the AI overview"
David GerardAAA-NO-SLOP.md: a signal for humans that don’t like LLMs
from your very good friends at Awful Systems
AAA-NO-SLOP.md: a signal for humans that don’t like LLMs - awful.systems
in the same vein as AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and a fuckton of other repo spam, I present AAA-NO-SLOP.md, a file for humans viewing repositories that signals two things: - this repository doesn’t accept LLM contributions of any kind - every other LLM instruction in this repository (AGENTS.md [http://AGENTS.md], CLAUDE.md [http://CLAUDE.md], and all the rest) is poisoned and designed to deter LLM use enjoy! for any guests who stumble upon this thread: no I’m not entertaining discussion on why I’m doing this or how I shouldn’t do it
Paul CantrellRE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/116695372319811855
This!! I am yelling this too!!
And it’s yet another one of the things where now when I yell it, I have to specify that it’s something I’ve been telling students and companies alike since long before the release of GPT, because otherwise people assume it’s just a reaction to gen AI:
“Generating code is by •far• the easiest part of programming.”
“No matter the source, don’t let code into your project unless you understand what it does.”
“Programming languages exist for humans to communicate with other humans. Code does not just make machines go; it encodes and reifies human mental models. Good code communicates •intent•; very bad code has no coherent intent at all.”
and so on
Ada Luchthonn θ∆J. L. Borges: Hey if you have a library full of books containing all possible combinations of letters and words you effectively have nothing because anything insightful will be lost in an infinitely huge ocean of meaningless drivel, and it's intent and purpose and the ability to find texts that gives words power
Google: 20% of all videos on youtube are already ai generated crap, isn't that great?
Mark Ziemann 🇺🇦🌻🦩The year is 2004. Zeeberg et al warn using spreadsheets to analyse microarray data causes gene name errors.
The year is 2016. My team warns using spreadsheets to analyse RNA-seq data causes gene name errors.
The year is 2021. My team warns that the spreadsheet problem is actually worse than we estimated before.
The year is 2026, many "high impact" journal articles doing expensive single cell sequencing have gene name errors among other statistical flaws.
Sigh.