"A confusing contradiction is unfolding in companies embracing generative AI tools: while workers are largely following mandates to embrace the technology, few are seeing it create real value. [...] In collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, our research team at BetterUp Labs has identified one possible reason: Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers." "Unlike this mental outsourcing to a machine, however, workslop uniquely uses machines to offload cognitive work to another human being. When coworkers receive workslop, they are often required to take on the burden of decoding the content, inferring missed or false context. A cascade of effortful and complex decision-making processes may follow, including rework and uncomfortable exchanges with colleagues."
Harvard Business Review
AI-Generated β€œWorkslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools ar...
"Our government is being run by aggrieved elites who were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else in the 2010s, where they could finally read what we all think about them. And it caused them so much psychic damage that they have decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it will ever happen again." (Original title: Petty, powerful, and pathologically online)
Garbage Day
Petty, powerful, and pathologically online
Read to the end for an academic paper on puppygirls
Seriously that text goes so hard, I love it: "[My new license] is not following the OSI definition of open-source because i don’t give a damn how capital defines its needs."
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"The Free Software Foundation has been sliding into irrelevance more and more by entirely failing to address its big Creepy Uncle problem. Open-Sou...
"The Free Software Foundation has been sliding into irrelevance more and more by entirely failing to address its big Creepy Uncle problem. Open-Source has turned into a form of unpaid internship to be hired to make shitty apps that bring more surveillance and ads to our world."
Introducing the Forklift Certified Licenseβ€”Aria’s Barks
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So DHH has gone fully open right winger? Maybe that gets people to stop sharing and reading his takes. If you still share that motherfucker's writing or advertise his business rethink your whole life decisions and move to the woods or something.
If you still share Klein's work I will judge you for it. "The Nazi did politics right: By being a demagogue who attacked any marginalized group he could find - even if I, a liberal laserbrain am uncomfortable with what he said (mostly in style)" is a take that is impossible to come back from.
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You remember when everyone (including AI firms) claimed that "Hallucinations" would soon be solved and I got so much shit for arguing that they are a structural property of LLMs? Now OpenAI releases a paper stating the same and just gets to move on (with all its sycophants). Really fucking annoys me.
So yeah. If anyone is looking to hire someone like me, my DMs are open ;)
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Btw. about 6 months ago the Anthropic CEO said that by now 50% of all code would be written by LLMs. How does that prediction relate to the reality we all live in and what does that say about his ability to make predictions about the future? (
Business Insider
Anthropic's CEO says that in 3 to 6 months, AI will be writing 90% of the code software developers were in charge of
"And then in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code," Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said.
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