Post B2yaQ9heTU0b7e4MSW by mspcommentary@mastodon.online
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(DIR) Post #B2yXbYS6UwXvCgXaq0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-04T10:56:24Z
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My general dislike of AI writing has had a positive impact on how I read and listen to texts and scripts. If I'm listening to a nature video, for example, and a sentence is empty of meaning or just illogical I turn that video off and avoid whoever made it. Some of the things I've rejected probably weren't made by AI, but I don't see that as a bad thing.My main issue with AI texts is I just find them kind of patronizing? You want me to sit and nicely listen but you can be bothered to write?
(DIR) Post #B2yXtLIK9n6fblRrEG by mayintoronto@beige.party
2026-02-04T10:59:35Z
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@futurebird That's what I keep telling people. Why would anyone read what you couldn't be bothered to write? It's not your voice anymore.
(DIR) Post #B2yXzfoSmbjayxV3kO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-04T11:00:46Z
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I had to talk with a chat from Optimum Online about my internet recently. I think they are using AI, but mixed with a real customer service rep in some bizarre way. Every message is so wordy positive and sycophantic. "Of course I can help you do that right away!" (can you? can you really?)But, eventually someone made some real changes to my account that I'd HOPE the wouldn't leave to an AI. There were long gaps between each response and I still had to wait 15 to talk to "someone"
(DIR) Post #B2yYC17NOgPeX9ESw4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-04T11:02:57Z
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I could see a customer service rep monitoring maybe ten or so such conversations and looking for the right point to move in.It's also possible the more terse and effective communication of the rep is run through an AI filter to make it "nicer"I found myself being just as wordy right back because they system annoyed me.
(DIR) Post #B2yYD7QXQS92OGijFA by CarstenBoll@mstdn.dk
2026-02-04T11:03:09Z
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@futurebird I say that to people too, I am not going to make an effort to read what you didn't make an effort to write. I'd probably get more out of reading the prompt.
(DIR) Post #B2yZICwaRPzAu2hY6y by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-04T11:15:18Z
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@orangelantern The extra fingers don't bother me as the lack of coherence. Here is a sentence that really turned me off:"The balance of salt and fresh water in the body of the cone snail is an essential equilibrium between concentrations of water."????I can infer what the training texts that made this might have said the interesting information about how snails can survive in a salty environment when land snails are sensitive to salt. But this is saying next to nothing.
(DIR) Post #B2yaGFdVYnrkczPNku by kfanyo@infosec.exchange
2026-02-04T11:26:05Z
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@futurebird Couldn't agree more. Used wisely, AI can be a slingshot but most--I suspect almost all--use it as a shortcut. And it can save time but if that's your goal, you're completely missing the point. As I've said before, you can use AI to improve your work as long as you don't use AI to *do* your work. I fear woefully few get this. Thanks for the opp. to vent. :ablobcatpoprev:
(DIR) Post #B2yaQ9heTU0b7e4MSW by mspcommentary@mastodon.online
2026-02-04T11:27:52Z
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@futurebird they didn't bother to write - and likely didn't bother to read either.
(DIR) Post #B2yaTHbfXuUiVGlK4G by AbyssalRook@mstdn.social
2026-02-04T11:28:26Z
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@futurebird @orangelantern Seems directly related to the fingers thing, though. Wasn't the main issue causing finger deformation that the model would generate a section based off of what was next to it, so the smaller, intricate, and repetitive details get futzed up?That sentence looks kinda similar. It took a bunch of sentences that said the same thing, picked the important bits of each sentence (balance, essential equilibrium, concentrations) and just...used all of them to be more important?
(DIR) Post #B2yc41wwov6Ic5nlBI by amenonsen@mastodon.social
2026-02-04T11:46:20Z
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@futurebird @orangelantern What you said upthread somewhere about missing out on incoherent human writing is painfully relatable. It's bad enough trying to figure out if you've misread something, missed something earlier, or if the author knew what they were talking about but made a mistake writing it, or just didn't know what they were talking about, or some combination thereof…
(DIR) Post #B2yfLpXfzQyZCtA06i by petealexharris@mastodon.scot
2026-02-04T12:23:08Z
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@futurebird @orangelantern This is an essential failure mode of slop text: it's only recombining probable things that might come next, and it's never trying to *say a specific thing* - there's no model of the thing the text is *about*.So there's no process by which the LLM can express that thing elegantly or tell if it has been expressed at all.
(DIR) Post #B2yoTqo24ehp1xi5EO by deborahh@cosocial.ca
2026-02-04T14:05:25Z
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@futurebird @mayintoronto same.
(DIR) Post #B2z4ITMaUXSEPDT9yC by adamrice@c.im
2026-02-04T17:02:41Z
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@futurebird I think I’ve encountered something like this, and I just assumed that a human rep was triggering a text macro, which might have been pre-written by an AI (or a human really good at sycophancy).
(DIR) Post #B2zXxYMNiSlERjJWVc by kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place
2026-02-04T22:35:03Z
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@orangelantern @futurebird I mean, you have to give that an incredibly creative reading to even call it anything resembling reality.Is there salt water in cone snails? NoIs there fresh water in cone snails? NoIt starts at completely wrong and gets worse from there.
(DIR) Post #B2zYDyQqY5D5wNESno by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-04T22:38:03Z
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@kevingranade @orangelantern As person who knows only a smattering of facts about cone snails this sentence first made me feel like my reading comprehension was getting worse... then just disgusted.