One of the sucky things is that the rush to jam GenAI in absolutely everything has ruined spell check and autocomplete. (Grammar check has never known the difference between there, they're, and their, so it's not a great loss.) Autocomplete used to be a great accessibility tool, but now it's trash.

Matt DeBarth@korivak.bsky.social · 15h ago

This. Computer opponents in video games? Vital. Spell check? Actually great. Autocomplete? Pretty fine. Grammar check? Meh, but harmless. AI Summaries? Die in a fire. Gen AI? Fuck all the way off. Thought-destroying, idea-erasing chatbots that will happily talk you into delusion? Literal evil.

The AI assholes won't let us have even the tiniest corner of human creativity. They have to infest everything.

Hillary Monahan@hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 13h ago

HWA is platforming righteousnessly entitled Pro-AI assholes and including them in their newsletters as they hawk their AI apps and programs and that's why you shouldn't support the HWA.

I already know I don't want a BMW and now I don't want to go to that movie either.

852dude@852dude.bsky.social · yesterday

This sucks ass. When I start my car I want to be able to put my foot on the pedal and drive off. I dont want to watch an ad. A distracting ad. Right in the middle of my console. Again. This sucks ass.

You should read this! It's really fun! And I could use more stories about this character!

High Priestess, Low Patience@cheriepriest.com · yesterday

oooh look who’s been given a spiffy digital asset ::jazz hands:: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Grave-...

Chat, what are good streamers for anime? 🫣 Spawn suddenly declared that he wants to watch as much anime as possible before school starts and I'm here for it but could use some help. TIA

Bro if Christopher Nolan ever directs a big-budget retelling of the Wittgenstein-Popper poker incident, imma write a review in the LRB that is SO scathing

They banned the woman Ken “joked” with the other day

Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 3d ago

So that’s the thing to know, if you’re a tabloid that’s going to name-check me in another round of transphobic shit about Bluesky discourse. I don’t stand with you. I stand with my trans friends and family members. ⏹️

Modern software is that guy at the gym giving you unsolicited amateur advice on your form, while blocking the free weights

Simon 🪗@mzdt.bsky.social · 6d ago

In real life,if I'm engaged in doing something and someone interrupts me to offer to help, generally I have to be as polite as I can and say if I need help, I'll ask for it. Modern software feels like that now (mainly why I avoid modern software where possible).

This thread and all of its responses. Too many good ones.

Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 7d ago

suggested slogans for annoyingly popular but inherently terrible bits of software, number #1 in what promises to be a very long series: "Adobe Acrobat: why don't YOU go fuck yourself?"

They're using trans girls as scapegoats. They don't want any girl to play sports.

It was already Monday and then I saw that PBS is encouraging children to use AI to plagiarize poetry and I just can't with people. What's the point? Why bother?

I'm very glad my grandkids' mom is very selective about who gets pics of her kids. It scares me how little privacy kids these days are granted.

Lili Saintcrow@lilithsaintcrow.com · 4d ago

"...another reason it’s “entirely valid” for parents to be put off by these books is the lack of transparency as to how “their children’s photos are used and stored on AI platforms,” and potentially shared with third parties or used to train AI models."

I find it a little creepy to follow someone right after they made an interesting comment, and yet I know if I don't, I'll never see their interesting stuff again.

I have two months left to finally figure out Linux and get it on my gaming PC. (This message brought to you by waiting 30 minutes for updates to install on the W10 machine I haven't turned on since May.)

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Slopya, who's done more to turn me off from any AI adoption than any other single person, demands wider adoption. LOL.

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo ago

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

In case you haven't seen it, you might like this.

If you would prefer to avoid GenAI/LLMs, etc or even to be allowed to decide for yourself when to use GenAI, check out this guide!

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

This is a really important point that the people who say "using it to find research is acceptable" need to acknowledge. Satisficing with bias baked in.

Alexandra Gallant-Lee@alexandragallant.com · 5d ago

"I just use it for research" like it's neutral, like nothing built by big tech ever had bias baked in? "It helps me find papers." Okay, but do you think there might also be a chance the plausibility generators surface papers by men more often than women, for instance?

Heck, librarians would help for free! But Chat GPT appeals to the kind of people who don't ever want to admit that someone else might know something they don't. They'd rather get wrong answers or incomplete sources than ask a human for help.

Mockingbird, MPH, CHES@amockingbird.bsky.social · 5d ago

I know google sucks now, but there must still be non LLM ways to find academic papers. If we’re talking about Hank Green, he could afford to pay an academic librarian for help ffs.

Not loving the smug "you can't escape the plagiarism machine" takes today.

I'd LOVE to pay less to not use something I don't want to use!

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d ago

Hahahaha. Will they charge less for no Siri at all.

When I get bad vibes off someone for years and years and years and feel alone in that, I don't actually WANT to be right. People trusted this guy. KIDS trusted this guy.

Rebecca Watson@skepchick.org · 5d ago

In other AI news, Hank Green posted to the Nazi site admitting he uses the plagiarism machine to write his scripts, so that's fun.

Oh wow, using the Blacksky app (beta), I can see profile names and pics! This is great!

After a really difficult year last year (AWFUL treatment-resistant depression) I got laid off earlier this year…and today I have a BETTER JOB and BETTER DRUGS and my amazing wife and I are BUYING A HOUSE. Apparently you can be trans and still have access to the American Dream (if you want that)

Hierophant Shelley B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛@shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 7d ago

Share your trans joy so that others know it's possible.

It's so wild that the crowd that wants us to have to pay subscriptions to BREATHE also thinks we're looking at a future where money isn't necessary. Or maybe they just plan to euthanize us when we can't pay our subscriptions.

Christopher Reader@xopherx.bsky.social · 6d ago

Don't trust this Republican wacko and Elon Musk to fund your retirement.

I'm NOT going to subscribe to "intelligence" and especially not from that dope.

Dylan Roth@dylanroth.bsky.social · last wk.

“We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” - Sam Altman. I will never stop thinking about how nakedly evil this is, and it has framed every single AI headline I’ve read since.

Also, also, there are PLENTY of people whose parents tried to beat them into being neurotypical and surprise, surprise, it doesn't work.

Dawn@dawn9902.bsky.social · last wk.

It's seriously shocking that these so-called medical professionals are licensed to practice medicine.

I just learned about Timimi last week and when I saw the conceit for this documentary, I was like, I bet that quack is involved. (Alt text is quotes from Dr Iona Heath and Dr Sami Tamimi dismissing the existence of ADHD.)

Dawn@dawn9902.bsky.social · last wk.

It's seriously shocking that these so-called medical professionals are licensed to practice medicine.