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House of 1000 Fionas

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oh god, it's come to this

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House of 1000 Fionas@cogentanalysis.bsky.social · 4w ago

Jesus Christ why did I just look at the alumni newsletter listing the immense successes of a bunch of assholes I went to college with and a bunch of even younger assholes too "Fiona ('07) has been squandering any hypothetical talent and/or potential by continuously toiling to survive"

House of 1000 Fionas@cogentanalysis.bsky.social · last mo.

Almost done with the preparatory doing-a-huge-amount-of-work before a short vacation, which will then be followed by the post-vacation catch-up doing-a-huge-amount-of-work, effectively negating any restorative benefits of a short vacation

Bigmoji my phone made combining the sunglasses emoji and the melting emoji, but huge
House of 1000 Fionas@cogentanalysis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A couple months ago my employer's AI Committee (barf) made us all complete a survey about using GenAI at work - they forced me to give my opinion, so LOL they sure as shit got my opinion (Same screenshot twice, needed more room for alt text)

(black text on white screen, question in bold followed by answer in regular text) Q: What is the single most important thing the firm could do to help you use Generative AI more effectively? A: I will not voluntarily use GenAI for my work or for any other personal purpose. I played around with Dall-E when it first came out but that was before I knew the wider implications and impact of using AI tools for frivolous reasons. The AI bubble is going to burst. We are currently in the "we just discovered Radium, it's awesome, let's put it in watches and face creams and health tinctures" phase of AI rollout. There are significant and incredible things that can be accomplished with AI, e.g. high level mathematical / scientific applications that simply cannot be done by human brains, or which would take months or years using standard computing methods, but the energy costs of AI are so high that they need to be carefully weighed and not applied en masse to any and every task that could hypothetically be done to increase corporate profits even though the output is unreliable to say the least. Anecdotally I have heard that in a wide variety of types of companies, AI is thought by managers to replace the need for junior level employees - e.g. have AI do it instead of hiring a Junior Programmer without considering the fact that Senior Programmers come from Junior Programmers. Widely available LLMs are pattern-identifying human language mimickers and automated plagiarism programs that are designed to keep the user engaging with the program - i.e. [sic] "you're right, you're doing well in your recovery, so you do deserve a little crack as a reward." It's the same thing as an AI image of a hand with seven fingers on it - it identifies a pattern, there are 4 fingers in a row, the pattern makes it likely that there will be more fingers coming next. Microsoft Outlook still thinks I'm about to say "Happy Thanksgiving" when I start writing an email in July. (Continued in next photo)(continued) The inclusion of AI tasks in my paralegal role would be a waste of my time, require extensive double checking to the point where it would just be easier and faster to do it myself because I know I will do it correctly and accurately, and as explained above I would consider it a personal moral failure to use GenAI tools for my work.