Foz Meadows: I cannot overemphasize enough how, whenever an app or a website or a browser or any other piece of tech proudly announces that it has AI, my desire to use it not only plummets, but I yearn for a button to smash that causes the person responsible to be cartoonishly slapped in the face with a fish

I cannot overemphasize enough how, whenever an app or a website or a browser or any other piece of tech proudly announces that it has AI, my desire to use it not only plummets, but I yearn for a button to smash that causes the person responsible to be cartoonishly slapped in the face with a fish

You and me both.

Behind the scenes are a bunch of software engineers telling product managers exactly why this idea sucks.

Something about the disaster movies starting with a scientist being ignored…

I want product managers to manually sort through the AI generated slush piles, in an un-airconditioned room, in a wooden chair with uneven legs, an annoying buzzer sounding when a new manuscript arrives. The buzzer does not stop. They're not allowed to leave until they write the rejection letters.

Rotten fish, preferably

A rotten fish.

Is there another way to be slapped by a fish?

Me too!

Me too!!

I want a tiny distinction between product uses AI which sucks and is ethically toxic (GenAI and LLMs), vs the rest of the AI field as a whole, or just AI as a marketing buzzword and it's the actually same code they've been using for years. Can we get Dolphin safe computer software?

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