Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg: I WOULD LIKE EVERY APP TO STOP INTRODUCING ME TO ITS NEW AI PET / FEATURE / COMPANION NO I WOULD NOT LIKE TO USE YOUR AI I JUST WANT TO KEEP WORKING KTHXBAI

I WOULD LIKE EVERY APP TO STOP INTRODUCING ME TO ITS NEW AI PET / FEATURE / COMPANION NO I WOULD NOT LIKE TO USE YOUR AI I JUST WANT TO KEEP WORKING KTHXBAI

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Naw Bonzi Buddy is ripe for a comeback with an ai makeover

This would be amazing for the name alone :D

Adobe: HOW ABOUT LETTING AI SUMMARIZE YOUR DOCUMENT Me: there is a line for "total price" I got it

Just today Android asked me if I wanted AI to summarize text messages.

Facebook will offer to write YOUR COMMENTS for you!

The worse is "the AI will chat up potential mates on dating sites for you so you don't have to bother with the boring "getting to know you" conversations." And I'm like... 😳 Isn't the whole point of meeting new people "getting to know them?"

I mean for some people a shitty chat bot would be an improvement

Probably, but I'd rather find that out before wasting weeks of chit-chat with their bot!

"Here's this thing we would like you to train for us, for free, and in the meantime will be in your way every time you try to do something. Welcome to the future!"

I use your app because my company requires me to track my billable hours through it. The last thing I EVER need is an AI making some shit up.

"Would you like me to commit fiduciary misconduct?" NO SHUT UP GO AWAY.

“My job requires me to closely read and mark up every page; stop asking me if I want a frigging summary of the document!”

Ye gods. How to Interfere With Indexing 101.

Or just regular editing. Good luck getting one of those plagiarism machines to give a document a consistent voice.

Yes, but I happen to know Rachel's an indexer (a job I also used to do).

God bless you all, doing the hard work out there.

EXACTLY!

"Computer, compile the most-common keywords and give me a list with the pages they appear on." [Certainly. Musk, Elon appears on pages 7, 33, 75, and 180.] "This is an analysis of the US Civil War. Elon Musk is not in the document." [Understood. Musk, Elon appears on pages 69 and 420. LOL]

I wouldn't mind an app that keeps fascists online from being aware of my existence. Nazi Blocker AI.

A Nazi blocker AI is just a few busted training databases away from a Nazi following AI.

Yeah. That does sound right. Ugh.

I literally don't need AI for anything. Stop offering it to me. I was creating something yesterday when AI popped up to rewrite my copy in a "professional" tone, and it was in entirely passive language.

Our marketing intern (who basically got the job because she said she was a content writer) turns out to use ChatGPT for most of it, so I then have to go back and rewrite it all in English... 🤦🏼‍♀️

She's getting paid to do AI searches basically.

Well no, because we've also had her doing grunt work like LinkedIn searches (the ones we've been doing aren't really automatable)... But it's been a bit disappointing, and the 6 months isn't getting extended.

To review: we don’t need AI, just research skills, and we should probably all go back to cable (unrelated, or is it?).

If these companies would introduce me to their *real* office pets they'd do a lot better

Agreed. I'm slowly replacing all my Google/MS/Mac stuff with either free open-source or boutique software that I pay for. Corporate "free" stuff is not actually free. It's been enshittified by AI, among lots of other things.

Same I’m stuck with friggin Word because my clients require it but everything else can go

Fwiw, I use Libre, and I either export into word or I tell people: word will open it. You're fine. But I don't have *clients*, so.

I just updated my whole suite - I still had Open, and nobody had told me Things Changed. %) (The spreadsheet isn't as cooperative.)

What's up with the spreadsheet?

I use it to keep score for a weekly event, and on Open I could block and delete the input data, leaving all the formulae. Libre seems to wipe /everything/, unless I leave the total-score column un-included. It's a little annoying.

Yeah, when I’m just writing for myself it’s not an issue But there’s specific formatting requirements that are fiddly if cross-application conversions get added to the process Is annoying but ::shrug::

I hear ya.

any recs?

Libre Office is great. Solid piece of software. I haven't touched MS Office in decades. Scrivener is *fantastic* for long-form writing of tubes for $50 to spend. A friend of mine swears by Markup, if you want something supremely simple and controllable

I swear I’m gonna go live in the woods and train a damn pigeon to send out my correspondence. AI is fucking dumb.

Every corporate website, too. And they insist on starting the interaction with deception — a fake notification red dot or whatever, signaling its intention to operate with no regard for honesty. And it does it every time I log in, as if I have zero memory and require this annoying re-introduction.

RAIBBAi, the new future of JudAIsm

HERE'S YOUR NEW AI ASSISTANT USE IT YOU UNGRATEFUL SLOB, NO YOU CAN'T TURN IT OFF

Oh yes I can. I can boycott your product.

but what if we put it in the search bar, so you accidentally used it instead of a thing you wanted to use --- would that help?? Zuck says that would help.

I wouldn't mind if they just stopped asking me if I want to get notifications. The answer is no.

I can no longer use Facebook or so many other things becuase they straight up crammed it in the search function. No I don't want fucking ai suggestions I wanted to just search the fucking thing I'm in. Like it's par for the course for them to jump in the bandwagon but come on ffs 😡

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