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Artemis

This makes me want to scream and pull out my hair.

"Reduce your vocabulary by 10-20% to prove you're a human."

Dr. Damien P. William... Remember how i told y'all that text written by neurodivergent peeps would likely have a higher false positive rate on "Al" checkers because masking means they are likely to engage in careful and specific word choice and that that would show up in text as "unnatural?" This is more of that. Quoting Mike Masnick: Kid has an English assignment, where school has kids first submit essay to an "Al checker." Kid did not use Al. Al checker says the use of the word "devoid" magically turned essay into 18% Al written. Changing "devoid" makes it drop to 0%. We're spending time "un-Al-ing" an essay that has no Al.
Matt Hall

@artemis

Seriously, I... I read the dictionary for _fun_ as a kid. I know that's not normal but I don't need robots bullying me for it.

Also, using a bot to determine if a bot wrote something is definitely a second layer of stupid.

"Well, the machine said it was written by a machine. Who else would know so well what a machine wrote than a machine? Hmm?"

The most reasonable response I can come up with to any of this is to burn it down. Just... Burn it down.

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Matt Hall

@paninid

Some variation of this is my prediction for the planet. No humans left, or at least not ones that can understand any of the machinery that continues to beep and boop, just machines chattering back and forth at each other without context.

@artemis

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Matt Hall

@paninid

Incoming messages from your hairstylists automated scheduling system that communicates with your automated response system that checks with your automated scheduling system if you're available for an appointment on February 31st (because dates are hard) that checks if your heart rate monitoring system has reported a heartbeat in the last three days.

...

Burn it all down. It'd be better for everyone.

@artemis

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feld
@401matthall @paninid @artemis

> Incoming messages from your hairstylists automated scheduling system...

didn't Google demo this a while ago where their Siri equivalent was able to schedule appointments for you by calling and talking to them on your behalf? I don't know if it ever went public but it was definitely interesting
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Matt Hall

@feld

They did. It's both interesting and horrifying. There's a definite drive towards creating distance between people. The convenience factor is limited but the stress/load you could create on others at the press of a button is pretty significant and those are the things we seem to skip over without much thought.

@artemis @paninid

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Matt Hall

@paninid

Yeah, just worse. No hopefulness at the end. ;)

@artemis

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aburtch

@401matthall @artemis I feel you on this one. I used to read the essays in the physical hard-bound copy of the Encyclopedia Brittanica we had in the house.

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Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦

@401matthall

I, too, read the dictionary for fun as a kid. Still do, truth be told.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Lin Feng
@401matthall @artemis I had read Webster's 9th Collegiate Dictionary (I forget which specific edition it was), as I had received it for being in the spelling bee, and thought that it would be something amusing to have done. Even as recently as last year, I've found myself using words I had learned from that experience, for the first time, as they just happened to perfectly encapsulate the idea I wanted to convey, in that specific context. When I had worked for an unnamed telecom, idiot callers would constantly accuse me of reading from a script.
Truly, the drive for self-education in one's childhood leads to dismay in one's adulthood.
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Kim Possible

@401matthall @artemis I am hoping that I am not the only one who, as a child, was given daily vocabulary words to learn. Then again, my mom was an English teacher.

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Latigo Morgan
@401matthall @artemis Same here. I had Webster's in the bathroom to read on the toilet.
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