As I’ve posted elsewhere on teh socials, I think being critical of AI/LLM tooling as well as projects which use them is perfectly acceptable. But if it crosses the line into harassment of individual maintainers, I don’t think that’s cool.

It’s a fine line to be sure, but if we go way over the top in our battles against slop, it can end up being counterproductive.

I take exception to the claim that AI-generated music is popular. I guarantee you those stats are misleading. Just like if you believe that all of the “views” on X are real, well, I have a bridge in Manhattan to sell you.

I’m afraid arguments of mere utility don’t hold much sway for me. Asbestos is also very useful as a fire retardant. 🫠

Not even remotely an overreaction. AI-generated code is morally incompatible with FOSS. And yes, I will continue to defend this position for many years to come. It really makes no difference to me what Linus Torvalds or any other influencer has to say on the matter.

Sounds like you’re just laundering marketing talking points from Big AI.

I will continue to participate in a significant, thriving, and very long-lived movement of people writing code for people. When it comes to the slop machines, the battle is just getting started.

Why is that naive? The fediverse is literally a web of trust, thus making it now one of the most valuable information networks on the planet, far more even than the web itself.

Even the thumbnails look like ass.

You don’t need an LLM to interact with machine learning algorithms.

In fact, one might argue one should not use an LLM to interact with machine learning algorithms. 😆

Bloody hell. 🤬

“moron revealing”

Right. It’s turtles humans all the way down. And if you spend enough time on freelance job boards, you realize that everyone in this sector is trying to find “experts” willing to train models to approximate what they do. Hey, if someone has to do that to make a quick buck to feed their family or whatever, well OK, but boy is it gross. 🤢

Sure, let’s ask MechaHitler if the dictionary has a correct definition. 🫩

I never thought I’d see the day when I’m kinda rooting for, um, Iran?! 🤪

So we’re completely doomed. 🫠

Uh, that’s most comics…making fun of dumb things people say/do. 😄

In zero years, nobody will care what La Haine director thinks about AI.

Oh believe me, there’s plenty I’m alarmed about…I’m just wondering why LLM-speak in corporate environments today would be much different than the corpospeak of past eras which affects a lot less of the general populace other than to serve as a fun target of derision & mockery (see 90s Dilbert).

P.S. Gen Z hates AI and might be much less susceptible to changing how they talk/think based on LLMs than older people, which is a fascinating inversion of every past technology shift. Folks who are pretending the AI rollout is following the same adoption curve as the web browser or the smartphone simply don’t have the facts to back it up.

I would gently argue the impact of LLMs on large swaths of society has been incredibly overblown, but that’s less a reflection on hype-fueled reporting on LLMs and more a reflection on how the impact of the Internet is often overblown. Time and again we see that software is eating a lot less of the world than we think. People are still highly influenced by other real people in real places. At least where I live, you could go to an event and hang out with people and listen to live music or play a sport or do [whatever] and not even realize LLMs exist at all.

Because nothing says “self-expression direct from the soul” like atomized sound waves coming from an algorithm.

We should stop calling this stuff music, art, whatever. It’s simply arranged static.