Mastodawn

the frustrating thing is that literally anyone who has thought about language and technology for fifteen consecutive seconds could have told you that autocomplete and other writing tools influence beliefs (and *have* been telling you this, over and over, for decades). the other frustrating thing is that slop-pushers *brag about their ability to do this* and right-wing actors are actively exploiting it, but in polite company everyone pretends that's not the case https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF/116219772468880168

Greg Egan (@[email protected])

“AI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our e-mails and phones. Now a new study finds biased AI suggestions can sway users’ beliefs” “We told people before, and after, to be careful, that the AI is going to be (or was) biased, and nothing helped,” Naaman said. “Their attitudes about the issues still shifted.” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-autocomplete-doesnt-just-change-how-you-write-it-changes-how-you-think/

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HalloNea Feb 28

mhoye Feb 28

What if I could convince you that taking the same time to explain detailed requirements and carefully validate results with a junior colleague instead of a chatbot would not only give you two people who understood the code instead of zero, but if you do it a few times in a row you eventually get a senior colleague out of the deal for free.

HalloNea Feb 22

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ava (yearny kitty)Feb 22

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HalloNea Feb 22

Peter Feb 21

Giggles...

US population, 1958: 175 million.
US population, 2024: 340 million.

No lies detected.

#USA #CyberTruck #FordEdsel #Cars

HalloNea Feb 22

Tyla (Combat Waifu Yuri Arc)Feb 21

There is a girl named Alexis coming over today to hang out with my daughter.

She’s dating another of my daughter’s friends who is lesbian and openly had a crush on my daughter but they talked about how they had to stay friends because my daughter is straight. That whole situation was no big deal.

Now she’s dating Alexis, who’s been over a few times and seems really engaging for a middle schooler. She just kind of hangs out in an easy-going manner. We’ve had talks about fashion and cooking and music.

She goes by Alex with her parents and non-school friends. I thought that was a nickname like I have for my kids. I was gonna text her parents and my daughter said very seriously “make sure you use he/him pronouns when you talk about her.”

It turns out she is an out Trans girl in middle school, and all her friends protect her by flipping name and pronouns as easily as code-switching. Like, they all think of her as a girl, and they flip to he/him without even really thinking about it.

This is so amazing to me. And so so sad. Like that poor girl is in middle school and already has friends she can trust with her true self more than her family.

HalloNea Feb 19

dazfuller

Feb 16

This is truly glorious #AISlop from #Microslop in their "Introduction to Github" course.

I don't know why Tim is working in the opposite direction, but I can see that he never once "morges" his code back into develop, let alone doing it "continvoucly"

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow

Update:

It looks as though after 4-5 months the page has been updated, but if you want to see the image in situ still then the way back machine has you covered.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260216165612/https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow