Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  [Microsoft are] just literal thieves.

  Always have been.

  (But now it’s worse because it’s the entire public, not just their competitors)

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  • chaogomu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They aren’t Microsoft anymore, they’re full on Microslop.

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    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      One might say they‘re Macroslop.

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• 100@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  you will enjoy your chatbot that confidently tells lies while electricity bill goes up by 50% and the nearby datacentres try to make the next model not use em-dashes

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    As a long-time user of the em-dash I’m pissed off that my usual writing style now makes people think I used AI. I have to second-guess my own punctuation and paraphrase.

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    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      We suffer together! At least my semicolon is still safe.

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    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I don’t use LLMs for anything creative for the express purpose of avoiding generic tone, haha.

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      • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah. I just wouldn’t feel comfortable putting my name to a slice of that dreary blandness.

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