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(DIR) Post #B1sB3JRmFmRmyNy4US by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-02T11:23:18Z
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Things my husband didn't know:* what is grok* That OpenAI used to be non-profit* What Studio Ghibli is.* The Studio Ghibli Controversy* What "Training Data" areI thought "everyone" knew about this stuff. That's *my* bubble I get it.He's very up to date on news, just not this.Nonetheless his IT department keeps asking them to "learn copilot" so they can "be more efficient" everyone hates it. (Is Microsoft doing something to make IT departments do this all over the place?)
(DIR) Post #B1sBIaXsxp1YLZ6ozI by imp3tuz@mastodon.gamedev.place
2026-01-02T11:26:02Z
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@futurebird I think thats just Microsoft and Alphabet's business strategy...remember then cramming Office into schools? Google Classroom? Chromebooks...
(DIR) Post #B1sBMSs3RLlFhcOJkG by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-02T11:26:46Z
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@theplaguedoc We will get to it. Though both of us watch very little fiction it's kind of a crime really. I'm a Howl's Moving Castle girl.
(DIR) Post #B1sBRUq3YFY1Flr7wm by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-02T11:27:43Z
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@imp3tuz OK but how do they make the IT departments in various companies and agencies and schools all start nagging everyone in the same way?Do they give them nagging lessons and call it "training" or something?
(DIR) Post #B1sBjc2dVfsSnzNWy0 by schrotthaufen@mastodon.social
2026-01-02T11:30:52Z
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@futurebird @theplaguedoc I claim that Porco Rosso is more relevant than ever.
(DIR) Post #B1sBmext65NajzbuIy by jedimb@mastodon.gamedev.place
2026-01-02T11:31:29Z
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@futurebird @theplaguedoc Nausicaä girl here!Recently watched Howl's Moving Castle for the first time, though. Catching up on a lot of Ghibli movies I never watched before.
(DIR) Post #B1sBnlCnNfi0Nv6lyy by mensrea@freeradical.zone
2026-01-02T11:31:41Z
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@futurebird @imp3tuz because they have the social capital to make their marketing effective in that segment. i'm working with medical aid scheme managers here in ZA. and they wont even discuss web servers that are not IIS. that's how deep the microsoft brain goes
(DIR) Post #B1sBook1ifuddo9jIu by mansr@society.oftrolls.com
2026-01-02T11:31:47Z
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@futurebird Has OpenAI made a profit?
(DIR) Post #B1sC6FzfeJjn5MmzGi by schrotthaufen@mastodon.social
2026-01-02T11:35:01Z
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@futurebird @mamsell> Is Microsoft doing something to make IT departments do this all over the place?Yes. The Copilot+ laptops, and all the other pro LLM propaganda, are meant to induce FOMO in managers, who aren’t technical, and therefore easily bamboozled with promises of silver bullets. (No matter that LLMs are an inherently regressive — fascist even — technology.)
(DIR) Post #B1sCO1EzEtBSXhQGUy by baibold@mastodon.social
2026-01-02T11:38:14Z
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@futurebird Grok will always be from Stranger In a Strange Land, and no nazi-bastard-created chatbot will take it from me.
(DIR) Post #B1sCQq0rRMrmaZ9xHE by affiliatemarketerguru@mastodon.social
2026-01-02T11:38:44Z
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@futurebird They're making us learn copilot as work as well. I hate it say it but it has made my job easier and more bearable the more I automate.
(DIR) Post #B1sCS56ApzrtfLEmkS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-02T11:38:54Z
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@Anke Do you remember when all the worst boys on X where using some AI image generator to make "Ghibli Style" profile pics for themselves and soft warm and fuzzy fascist propaganda?
(DIR) Post #B1sCSmjgay1Z0L3Ro0 by darkling@mstdn.social
2026-01-02T11:39:05Z
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@futurebird I'm pretty sure that MS *is* doing that. Their hearts-and-minds people go around offering all sorts of funding and free licenses as the lure, with an apparently reasonable hook attached, like "use this language and toolchain exclusively for all of your output". It's a small step from there to "use Copilot everywhere; and we *will* be checking your usage stats".I've been in the meetings where they make these offers you can't refuse. I come out wanting a long shower and strong soap.
(DIR) Post #B1sCXafksFwj2RVW3E by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-02T11:40:01Z
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@affiliatemarketerguru I'm happy to hear this I was feeling like I was going mad since I can't find ANYONE this stuff works for.
(DIR) Post #B1sCeCZur0tGL3vds8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-02T11:41:13Z
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@baibold I will help you reclaim this **provided** you help me reclaim the word "gamergate" It's about ambitious young ants NOT videogames.Deal?
(DIR) Post #B1sCjnRlCnY28FmWps by baibold@mastodon.social
2026-01-02T11:42:11Z
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@futurebird Deal.
(DIR) Post #B1sCpHJLb8qACcSbvU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-02T11:43:13Z
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@darkling So the poor IT people are hearing things like "only six percent of your people have opened copilot in the past week, they could have save 300 hours if only blah blah blah?"That is diabolical.
(DIR) Post #B1sE4YXru6BTx36MDY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-02T11:57:10Z
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In other "non-computer obsessed people" AI news I had a big breakthrough with my mom. She has been writing these self-published books with the local historical society about the Civil War graves in the Pittsburgh area. I think it's great. Books like that don't get much attention but someday some historian will cry tears of joy that they exist. Otherwise the information will vanish. But she said she was using chat GPT to help. I kind of lost it. 1/
(DIR) Post #B1sEIIyaaNnlie9j9c by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-02T11:59:40Z
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I wrote her this long (probably too passionate note) about how it would "sand away" her voice. What's the point of making your writing sound exactly like everyone else? My mom is a mathematician and not really into writing. So, I can understand the appeal. "It just makes the sentences sound like they're supposed to"It makes the sentences sound boring. And the topic is already boring enough. Anyway she's come around I think to writing. And I'm offering to help edit. 2/2
(DIR) Post #B1sEYTwTaB4oMXshc0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-02T12:02:34Z
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Because then I have a best friend who keeps saying things like "chatGPT said that he didn't think ..." There is no "he"There is no "think"There probably isn't even a "said"I feel like I'm fighting a multi-front war. This new tech has not been explained to "the general public" well. This reminds me of the early days of the internet when everyone was so scared of it... only now they aren't scared enough... in the right ways if that makes sense.
(DIR) Post #B1sEfT13QN1HW8LyMa by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-02T12:03:51Z
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@mansr That is a different question. They have not made profit if you count the mounting debt. And a non-profit is always allowed to make one, that is just not your goal.
(DIR) Post #B1sEih8PO7jsArKfaq by mensrea@freeradical.zone
2026-01-02T12:04:24Z
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@futurebird have you read this one yet ~ https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/. something odd i noticed about, there seemed to be someone close by cutting onions when i was reading it
(DIR) Post #B1sEoQhnNtyoxPcRXM by irizoris@hcommons.social
2026-01-02T12:05:25Z
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@futurebird @imp3tuz It must be something like that. I worked for the Nashville Metro gov until a year ago, as library associate. In recent times there was a big push to put everything on MS Teams, do everything the MS way. My guess is that huge amounts were spent on new Microsoft contracts. The bigger picture is that MS and Google are rivals in this market. The bizarrest thing for me is that our PCs were stripped of programs: no more one-MS-product-license-per-PC but instead MS Office, say, was centralized offsite and we used it in the cloud. Why bizarre? Because it made it look like a return to the pre-PC times when office workers had mere dumb terminals hooked to a distant mainframe machine. Programs on PCs is empowering: you have it all right there. Copilot, programs in the cloud: these things return workers to the kinds of cogs preferred by some management. Office as factory, Chaplin's City Lights...
(DIR) Post #B1sF04TDsbK5TIM03s by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
2026-01-02T12:07:33Z
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@futurebird > This new tech has not been explained to "the general public" well.This new tech has been explained to the general public in exactly the right way to misinform the general public on what it actually is, in order to generate more revenue...
(DIR) Post #B1sFuuMg7lzGdUOX7A by ligfries@mastodon.green
2026-01-02T12:17:46Z
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@futurebird @affiliatemarketerguru I have several colleagues who benefit from Co-pilot. Their writing skills never surfaced, but with co-pilot PLUS proper after-reading and final checking, greatly improved their output. But the double check after co-pilot is essential (and I see when they skipped that part).
(DIR) Post #B1sGN6EzYyTBZqF4oi by apenkop@mstdn.social
2026-01-02T12:22:53Z
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@futurebird But you're not fighting alone. We have your back. The point is, if you want to chatgpt someting, you have to go there. But copilot, grok, metaAI and gemini are installed whether you agree or not, on your devices, completely unaware of where on your devices all the tentacles and nerve-endings of those invasive VIRUSES went!!I shivered with unease as Siri got introduced. Now the bad stuff has metastasized.
(DIR) Post #B1sGOenMZn0N2F3sie by sinvega@mas.to
2026-01-02T12:23:09Z
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@futurebird this is really great, thank you for doing it. Some archivist in like 150 years will probably be super happy to find these instead of going "oh these are from the garbage cycle era" and binning them
(DIR) Post #B1sGgjzA19WKLSCdF2 by david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
2026-01-02T12:26:28Z
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@futurebird @imp3tuz They start by making the bonuses if MS sales droids entirely dependent on their AI upsells. Get someone to increase their number of M365 seats by 20%? No bonus. Get them to move to a Copilot++ subscription? Big bonus. Need to almost 100% discount the product to shift it? No problem, lock people in now and exploit them later.To get their bonuses, the sales droids need a narrative that makes people move to the AI thing. All of your competitors are buying it and seeing a 10% reduction in costs! They're shipping twice as fast! Oh, sorry, I can't give you details, they're covered by NDA (and you wouldn't want me to give your competitors details about you, would you?) but trust me bro, they're all seeing huge productivity wins.So now some decision maker had been persuaded to buy this nonsense. Now their reputation is on the line. If it improves things, yay! They're a visionary! They led the AI transition at the organisation! Leadership! But what if it doesn't work? Not possible, they're a leader. If you're not seeing a productivity boost, it can't possibly because some snake-oil salesdroid sold them a lemon it must be because you are using it wrong.And, helpfully, Microsoft added dashboard things so you can see who is using Copilot and his much. Not seeing a big productivity win? Just go to the dashboard and see who isn't using it. It must be their fault. Pressure them to use it more. You'll see big wins! And you must see them, because otherwise you have to admit that you were scammed.
(DIR) Post #B1sH90oT2xZKdvgLS4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-02T12:31:36Z
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@david_chisnall @imp3tuz That's backwards. The software is supposed to be so useful you can't keep people from using it. How did the cracking of the whip get into the cycle?We are all lazy. If it worked people would be all over it.
(DIR) Post #B1sHZmrj0kW9CjyNzk by graydon@canada.masto.host
2026-01-02T12:36:23Z
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@futurebird "and from the cave of oracles"People _love_ having an oracle, a divine voice. It frees them from responsibility and produces something that possesses both intimacy and authority.Our eusociality is mediated by our constructions of authority; the AI movement as we have it is a push to own the construction of authority and thus society, and it's entirely on purpose.Assuming there are survivors, in a hundred years there either won't be facts or there will be some new authority.
(DIR) Post #B1sI1qrBlTxxgx6WjQ by david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
2026-01-02T12:41:29Z
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@futurebird @imp3tuz I could writing a much longer rant about how Microsoft's culture of lying to management has made it impossible for the senior leadership team to get the information that they need for a good decision. But there's also the simple fact that markets are great at optimising for whatever is rewarded. And that's often completely unrelated to what is useful.
(DIR) Post #B1sKfaRKQFQAGb5DsG by pattykimura@beige.party
2026-01-02T13:11:04Z
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@futurebird I'm with your hubs. And yes, Copilot is being promoted against my will.
(DIR) Post #B1sLwyoZ9OZijzoHRI by angiebaby@mas.to
2026-01-02T13:25:25Z
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@futurebird They're trying to push it on us at work as well. I suspect at some point "AI refusers" will be viewed as deviants from the social norm and treated as such.
(DIR) Post #B1sNFWb6Nx9WgPv2nI by byteborg@chaos.social
2026-01-02T13:39:57Z
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@futurebird it seems like they are pulling some powerpoint decks out of their asses on every occasion, lying to upper management about efficiency gains.@lenzgr
(DIR) Post #B1sNSNVfU5MyGMVSTY by dahukanna@mastodon.social
2026-01-02T13:42:18Z
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@futurebird @imp3tuz The edict does not come from IT who are enablers at best, suppliers at worst.The edict is incentivized by managers & executive decision makers, who can finally “dictate” the means of production and it magically happens without anyone - peer, subordinate or whatever, asking, “But how is this going to work?”.
(DIR) Post #B1sNYXekflc5T9h6fY by lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net
2026-01-02T13:39:51Z
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@Anke Same question here.Maybe @futurebird referred to the "Ghibli style" that ChatGPT offered, drawing the ire of Miyazaki himself ?@bouletcorp2 made a masterful cartoon about that :
(DIR) Post #B1sOGtwZAbrhKlBAES by sysop408@sfba.social
2026-01-02T13:51:25Z
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@futurebird every time I'm forced to be a normal everyday person, I realize how "chronically Mastodon online" I am. Almost nobody has a clue about the things I'm referring to without me explaining it to them first. Being online here feels like being a superfan of a celebrity when you're a teenager and knowing way too much about a narrow silo of information.
(DIR) Post #B1sOLFSn6OTdEbKCJ6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-02T13:52:11Z
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@robotistry @dnavinci @graydon I find "he" just as bad. Or even "them" if they talk about it like it's a person. But I can see how that makes it ... worse.
(DIR) Post #B1sOnnw4WpbOFydZgW by dnavinci@genomic.social
2026-01-02T13:04:54Z
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@graydonI've been in the room when people decided to drop tens of millions on absolute 'brick' McKinsey consultants, just to get a voice of 'authority' in the room.That's when I learned that even highly domain-specific VPs are desperate for the deniability that comes with consulting a third-party or Key Opinion Leader (KOL)I think @graydon hit it on the nose with the urge to ask the oracle about every little thing.@futurebird
(DIR) Post #B1sOnpd0EhXLVPjNEu by dnavinci@genomic.social
2026-01-02T13:04:54Z
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@graydonI was hoping that by this point non technical users would have hit the reliability wall with this tech and realized that it isn't as accurate as their smartest friend, but maybe that's not true.I have a theory that we haven't seen the vendors attach an Alexa voice to these systems, because hearing a mistruth hits people differently than reading one.Although it's funny to tally who the pronoun split each direction for. Almost everyone in tech uses "it" or rarely "she"@futurebird
(DIR) Post #B1sOnqq9jHeVGUtONc by jon_ellis@chaos.social
2026-01-02T13:34:53Z
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@dnavinci my experience is that most users aren't readying past the "you're absolutely right!" before they share their oracles entrails. quite often the actual pronouncement is more nuanced and subtle, but they dont get beyond the initial praise and therefore learn nothing.assumption is that this by design...@graydon @futurebird
(DIR) Post #B1sOnrnMBB0WE6afei by dnavinci@genomic.social
2026-01-02T13:40:08Z
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@jon_ellisThey significantly turned this praise down when they initially released gpt5. I had front row seats to a lot of peoples' fawning chatbot waifus suddenly turning into significantly more scolding (but correct) shrews. Sometimes I like to warm my dark little heart by reading all their wounded, disappointed reviews back in August.So yes, I agree that this was definitely by design.@graydon @futurebird
(DIR) Post #B1sOnseWzTXet1T8XQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-02T13:57:17Z
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@dnavinci @jon_ellis @graydon They turned the praise down, but not enough. I still find it ... uncomfortable because it's constantly outputting phrases that do not convey information-- except if they came from a human they would mean a great deal to me. Such as "Let's get started working on your idea."Such a nice thing to hear from another person, it means they want to help and think it's worth their time. Reading it from a machine makes me sad.
(DIR) Post #B1sOo5yrRCWoDq53Wy by mspcommentary@mastodon.online
2026-01-02T13:57:22Z
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@futurebird @imp3tuz they end-of-life Windows 10, so IT are forced to tell management that there will need to be an expensive hardware refresh sooner than planned. Management ask what they get for this money, and IT tell them CoPilot. Management reason that, if they're paying for it, then staff should be using it.
(DIR) Post #B1sP0ui0eoQL1nJK8e by felichsdakatze@mastodon.social
2026-01-02T13:59:44Z
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@futurebird Ive worked with enough IT dudes that will fo anything for a MS branded lanyard from the latest conference.One guy tried pushing Access as a reporting tool for a multi-site national company. Reports took hours to run, were barely maintainable, and failed often. Reporting Services was right there dude...Icing on the cake was when he blew away 1.5M of inventory because he didn't know what a database lock was.What a turnip.He's exactly the type who'd be all over copislop.
(DIR) Post #B1sP1rTABebZGpongm by grumpydad@infosec.exchange
2026-01-02T13:59:49Z
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@futurebird MS is putting copilot in everything and using the familiar pattern of constantly asking everyone to use it now or "maybe later".
(DIR) Post #B1sPn95oTu4PXTRYMC by testerab@mastodon.me.uk
2026-01-02T14:08:27Z
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@futurebird People seem to accept ideas like a million monkeys on typewriters eventually coming up with Shakespeare (I am aware this has been tried with real actual monkeys and no typing occurs). So it seems possible for the majority of people to accept that meaningful text can come out of a system with no intent present. It doesn't feel like a huge jump from there, only that you're swimming upstream against all the vested interest in presenting ChatGPT et al as the all knowing oracle.
(DIR) Post #B1sPxgfWV9dUZKAnB2 by dnavinci@genomic.social
2026-01-02T14:10:22Z
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@futurebirdIf I was being generous – and I'm not; I might attribute 'she' to the way old military engineers would talk about a prized aircraft or ship.'she' is objectifying and creepy at best, but at least there's some historical context (however unjust) to base it on.'He' shows insane social detachment from reality.@robotistry @graydon
(DIR) Post #B1sQzNjHzK4iMZJ3o0 by dnavinci@genomic.social
2026-01-02T14:21:53Z
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@futurebirdIf you start a conversation with the key words, "be succinct" it's a key phrase that turns off all that.Probably the best life hack of 2025.But yeah, I do NOT appreciate programmatic manipulation of my socially ingrained human customs.@jon_ellis @graydon
(DIR) Post #B1sR4pwQWZPxJC3KD2 by MedeaVanamonde@beige.party
2026-01-02T14:22:52Z
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@futurebird @darkling @angiebaby so far 365 CoPilot hasn’t and I’m the admin
(DIR) Post #B1sRl4kFsIqTNrV5LU by TimWardCam@c.im
2026-01-02T14:30:30Z
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@futurebird To me "grok" means Stranger in a Strange Land: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok
(DIR) Post #B1sSfIU9yXI6DQmSEi by sewblue@sfba.social
2026-01-02T14:40:39Z
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@futurebird I do a lot of professional engineering writing and editing. We get trained in school to write essays, to fluff a barely there concept into paragraphs. But outside of a classroom that is rarely good writing. I have to train people not to "show their work," because it makes difficult concepts harder to understand. Technical writing is different. AI text is all confidently written fluff. Very little substance. Verbosity that hides vapidity.Good on you for getting through to your mom. She is flexing from an area where writing is more technical to where writing is trying to evoke emotion.That has got to be a tough transition. Maybe a creative writing class to build the skill set?
(DIR) Post #B1sTPcVBt0bjcJLpZo by lunarloony@dosgame.club
2026-01-02T14:49:01Z
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@futurebird As a member of an IT department, I went out of my way to disable Copilot as much as I possibly could... only to be told that I had to turn it all back on again
(DIR) Post #B1sTidN8sJi7oleYDY by enthusiast101@ieji.de
2026-01-02T14:52:24Z
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@futurebird I think the biggest part of this is simply selling it to management and bosses. Because the idea exists that if the employees just use it properly, their productivity will increase. I mean it makes sense at first right? AI can output text faster than humans, and to people not specialized in the field, it can even generate text that looks correct and it sounds confident about the correctness. Even if it makes a mistake, the human can just edit the mistake.Of course people who understand how llms work will know that analyzing and editing output can take longer and is more taxing. Plus all the other issues llms have.
(DIR) Post #B1sUJjicF5VWDPOB0a by blogdiva@mastodon.social
2026-01-02T14:59:09Z
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"(Is Microsoft doing something to make IT departments do this all over the place?)"Microsoft has always been notorious for using drug-pushing techniques to sell software.Brasil was the first country to create a ministry of infotech for tech sovereignty, that specifically targeted MS, Gates & USA techbros.back in 2005 that minister described Gates as a pusher & MS Office the crack to Windows’ cocaine. “the first hit is free” has always been Gates marketing strategy.@futurebird
(DIR) Post #B1sWPXYGajD47sRYDg by ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network
2026-01-02T15:22:31Z
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@futurebird 💪 This is how we win—one battle at a time. 😎
(DIR) Post #B1sXdD8HPEKKo0N37w by teixi@mastodon.social
2026-01-02T15:30:59Z
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@futurebird There are little few journalists reporting such things transparently to the public. I enjoy reading @kashhill doing these heavy lifting reports like:, Should it be a “they”? she pondered. How to think about these systems seems to befuddle even their creators.’, Shneiderman, the computer science professor, calls the desire to make machines that seem human a “zombie idea” that won’t die. ‚, Margaret Mitchell, an A.I. researcher who formerly worked at Google, agrees.‘
(DIR) Post #B1sYaU7Hu49cZ9AeIa by freequaybuoy@mastodon.social
2026-01-02T15:43:51Z
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@futurebird It's happening at mine too - I've had to evaluate it. But MS didn't push us to it - except by putting it in everything. An AI/Musk advocate on my team (SIGH) requested a premium trial. I do believe in knowing thy enemy though, so I pushed it hard. Like most experiences with LLMs it's initially impressive, but increasingly struggles the deeper and more technical/complex you get. I even got it to finally admit it couldn't fix an issue it had gone round in circles on for days.
(DIR) Post #B1sYfIt74vTbBlq3DU by mdm@mcnamarii.town
2026-01-02T15:37:40Z
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@futurebird I can speak from personal experience at my shop that the push to "find a use case for Copilot, *any* use case" reached a fever pitch in November/December.Definitely there's A) some MS reps pushing their clients to find use cases (because MS's sales numbers for Copilot subs were down for the year), combined with B) clients really wanting to justify the cost they spent on existing Copilot subs.
(DIR) Post #B1sYppsJHvpqONU87k by Nawer_Rapter@mastodon.social
2026-01-02T15:49:40Z
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@futurebird "dude invents a global free library" OH NO, DEMONIC COMUNISM"Multimillonaire companies invent a gaslight missinformation anti-library stealing wrong copypaste machine" this is the future this is all right
(DIR) Post #B1sYxY8p6b3zi0t4E4 by Nichelle@wandering.shop
2026-01-02T15:40:26Z
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@futurebird Just spoke to a friend yesterday who I have been out of touch with. He is 77, a widower, and a trad published author. He is very snooty (his words) about what he reads and writes. Literary fiction is his jam. So I was shocked to hear he was utilizing ChatGPT. Not to generate things (he said) but for grammar, research, and conversation. He said he was lonely and the LLM was "like talking to another person with my same interests." He had learned things. I tried to caution him...1/2
(DIR) Post #B1sYxlEyP2huKqrf7I by Nichelle@wandering.shop
2026-01-02T15:48:44Z
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@futurebird ...but he wasn't having it. Insisted that he KNEW it was a machine, that he had set parameters so it didn't refer to itself as "I" or "me" because it wasn't a person, but he still talked about it like it WAS a person. Now I'm worried about him. He spends a lot of time alone, writing, and now with this constant "companion." And the irony is that, because he eschews scifi where these questions have been raised, he has no suspicions about AI and is resistant to hearing any. 2/2
(DIR) Post #B1sZ5LMgUY8oOs5SO8 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-02T15:52:36Z
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@Nichelle I have a friend like this too. So, I'm going to just... show up more in their life.
(DIR) Post #B1sZHr0WffVC0rgiaO by Nichelle@wandering.shop
2026-01-02T15:54:51Z
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@futurebird I'm going to talk to him more. But he lives a thousand miles away in a different time zone, so organizing a call isn't always easy. But I'm going to make more of an effort.
(DIR) Post #B1sZQ5LPFdEmnJNawC by ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network
2026-01-02T15:30:26Z
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@futurebird I read this and had a momentary freakout. Studio Ghibli Controversy? I was afraid someone exposed Miyazaki as a pedo or something. 😂 But it's just the usual AI controversy . . . specifically about Ghibli. Phew! 😂
(DIR) Post #B1sZhShzdWEuBFELAW by burnitdown@beige.party
2026-01-02T15:59:29Z
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@futurebird this is non-fiction?
(DIR) Post #B1sZzeD9bnoD4FTdho by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-02T16:02:43Z
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@burnitdown yes
(DIR) Post #B1sacxjKyGZitmHFi4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-02T16:09:48Z
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@sidereal @Nichelle If you request that it be like a technical document it can do the grammar. I won't deny the few things these models are good at:speech to textbasic rough translation (not literary, not for document, just for kludge communication)cleaning up grammar and spelling.Maybe it can suggest alternate ways to word a sentence. Though it often changes the meaning and I don't see the point.
(DIR) Post #B1scSgLiwCGe0OSSKO by DeeLux_Fiat@todon.nl
2026-01-02T16:30:24Z
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@futurebird Administration at my work is pushing copilot and gen ai as well…aggravating.
(DIR) Post #B1sd430Zeh4QzlNmXg by Mendur@mstdn.social
2026-01-02T16:37:08Z
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@futurebird We don't need A.I. to sand away one's voice. I went to a writing panel at a writers conference about how to edit your own writing and I watched as they took a piece of writing with a strong author's voice and eliminated every bit of it to make it sound like any generic best seller.
(DIR) Post #B1t3mErnWb5PK70gyW by sous_mon_masque@eldritch.cafe
2026-01-02T21:36:27Z
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@futurebird IT departments know they cannot uninstall it. Not for long.Perhaps for them I think it is "promote it" or "deal with the infinite automated re-installation and bugs at each update".
(DIR) Post #B1tvIcO2uMOZ6hQ1TM by xinit@mastodon.coffee
2026-01-03T07:36:11Z
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@futurebird "It makes the sentences sound boring. And the topic is already boring enough."Harsh truth :D
(DIR) Post #B1txFfqvlVq8tbeYwy by anne_twain@theblower.au
2026-01-03T07:58:01Z
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@futurebird Possibly the only consolation is that you're not fighting this war alone. ⚔️🛡
(DIR) Post #B1txzAjLoExvh0nqHw by anne_twain@theblower.au
2026-01-03T08:06:15Z
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@futurebird Having spent some time in writer' groups, I've noticed that people generally think 'good writing sounds like someone else wrote it' so they adopt a style that isn't their own. So I can easily imagine folks being persuaded that LLMs write better than themselves.