Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)emilymbender@dair-community.social
Aug 21, 2026, 3:16 AM@alter_kaker I'm so sorry you are being forced into this. The rage is a good thing though! Hold onto it.
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Alter Kakeralter_kaker@hachyderm.ioAug 21, 2026, 3:21 AM@emilymbender I don't know that it is good, because it's not rage at the people who put me in this position. I feel the rage that I'd feel if I was repeatedly confronted with a very stupid and obtuse person who keeps trying to kiss my ass but never learns anything. I'm having a hard time not typing cruel things into the prompt, like the kind of leading questions some kind of sadistic boarding school teacher out of Dickens would ask. So that's clearly me anthropomorphizing the machine on a very deep level. It makes me feel crazy.
- Alter Kakeralter_kaker@hachyderm.ioAug 21, 2026, 3:28 AM
@emilymbender and thank you. I'm going to have to figure out how to turn back from the brink, hopefully while keeping my job 😅
Aug 21, 2026, 6:13 AM@alter_kaker
I think that might a side effect if executive forcing people to use chatbots. Redirecting the hate from them
Aug 21, 2026, 7:21 AMIt must be awful.
It might help to simply not make sense of the whole thing.Like using a card-punch machine management put up so they can feel powerful about controlling when you "clock in" and "clock out", one might disengage from the whole thing, refuse to engage with the idea, and just view it as a mechanical obstacle to real work.
To transfer the hate to the people making you do it instead.
Another trick that might or might not be helpful; Artificially lower your expectations of the machine, to the point where you "already know" it will extrude something pointless and wrong. This might protect you somewhat against actually reading the output as something that should be much better. Every time it will be as bad as you expected.
ltningltning@anduin.netAug 21, 2026, 11:09 AM@emilymbender The rage is good but the reasons for it kill the insides slowly but surely. In any other job where "doing your job" makes you feel this angry and abused it's legal grounds for going after the employer, and also for taking medical leave for mental health reasons.
Cc @alter_kaker