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  • David Mankinslain_7@tldr.nettime.org
    Mar 11, 2026, 1:30 PM

    @silverpill @hongminhee

    I don’t interject this as an attack, but please realize that when you say “AI slop” you say “sloppy person who uses AI”.

    @hongminhee very clearly is not such a person, so please don’t imply they are, even if they chose an assistant you disapprove of to help them communicate.

    I am irritated by the term “AI slop” because it shifts the responsibility from the user to their tool, from the way they use the tool to something that’s inevitable.

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  • Hypolite Petovanhypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com
    Mar 11, 2026, 2:24 PM
    @lain_7 It would be the case if these tools weren't aggressively integrated in everything we use. If there's a murky water tap in your city, then it's up to the users to appropriately filter the output for safe consumption. Now if the murky water tap is forcibly installed in every household because the city received bribes for it, then the responsibility shifts from individual users to the murky water tap provider. Even if users can get somewhat safe water from adequate filtration.
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  • David Mankinslain_7@tldr.nettime.org
    Mar 11, 2026, 2:53 PM

    @hypolite

    Perhaps, but that’s not the case I was addressing, and I guess I have been spared this “aggressive integration”. Sure, it’s present in a few of the things I use, but that presence seems easy enough to ignore.

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  • silverpillsilverpill@mitra.social
    Mar 11, 2026, 3:20 PM

    @lain_7 @hongminhee I focus on the tool because it seems that a lot of people who use this tool remain unaware of how it affects them. Maybe they are aware and just don't care, maybe even majority of them don't care, but in this particular case I was assuming the former.

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  • David Mankinslain_7@tldr.nettime.org
    Mar 11, 2026, 3:43 PM

    @silverpill @hongminhee

    I think it’s wrong to focus on the tool — since it shifts the “blame”. A tool can be used well, or it can be used carelessly. It’s the person that decides how the tool is used.

    I have to admit that, at least in coding, AI can overwhelm a person trying to use it carefully, but that doesn’t excuse *that person* submitting a careless, sloppy pull-request.

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  • Hypolite Petovanhypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com
    Mar 11, 2026, 4:07 PM
    @lain_7 @silverpill For most tools, I would be inclined to agree with you. But not these tools with a human-shaped interface that are meant to tap into our human-recognizing biases. "Treat it like a junior developer", no, just no, it's a computerized tool. We already had languages to interface with computers and they weren't nearly as lossy as natural language.
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