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  • Glyphglyph@mastodon.social
    Apr 23, 2026, 2:43 AM

    Talking to my 8-year-old about my upcoming Way Too Big Blog Post About genAI. I explain that my goal is to describe why I think it's bad, because it's really complicated and hard to understand, and so I don't blame people who disagree.

    They ask, matter-of-factly, "Oh, are you trying to get people to stop using it because if they don't stop then by the time my generation grows up, nobody will have jobs any more and everyone will be poor because AI will just do everything and keep all the money?"

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  • Glyphglyph@mastodon.social
    Apr 23, 2026, 2:47 AM

    I want to be clear that this is pretty divorced from my own views of likely scenarios, even likely nightmare scenarios, so they're not getting this from me.

    If you're reading this and you're involved in LLM hype, I'd really like you to take a moment to pause and examine the fact that this is the commonly accepted peer wisdom in a 2nd-grade classroom right now. That their parents' generation is actively involved in betraying them to a distant and inscrutable machine-god of pure greed.

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  • Socially Distantranggie4@mastodon.social
    Apr 23, 2026, 3:19 AM

    @glyph I'm all for regulating and managing AI but as with all things tech, it's the greedy corporations that have made tech accessible only to certain (paying) tiers. These corps are solely in it for the profit and control. Same goes for social networks, search engines, smartphones/computers, operating systems and the lot. The general public must fight back by using open source services or supporting those organisations (even for-profit ones) that place public benefit above profit. Just my 2¢

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  • aevaaeva@mastodon.gamedev.place
    Apr 23, 2026, 3:58 AM

    @glyph i more or less remember thinking and saying things like that when i was a second grader but about pollution and cars and those plastic six pack things that I'm shocked aren't banned yet instead. kids know what the score is

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  • grrl_aexkitkat_blue@mastodon.social
    Apr 23, 2026, 5:05 AM

    @glyph

    "their parents' generation is actively involved in betraying them to a distant and inscrutable machine-god of pure greed."

    They're not wrong.

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  • Orb 2069Orb2069@mastodon.online
    Apr 23, 2026, 11:55 AM

    @glyph

    And I thought cowering under a desk because the adults were going to throw a tantrum and nuke everybody was bad.

    But, hey, with Trump, I guess we can have both.

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  • Glyphglyph@mastodon.social
    Apr 23, 2026, 3:02 AM

    @codinghorror I always love to plug this book and the idea behind it but to be honest in this case I'm not even sure how "laziness" leads to any part of this outcome? This perception is the predictable output of doom-grifters preying upon laypeople to produce anxiety to fuel hype.

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  • Jeff Atwoodcodinghorror@infosec.exchange
    Apr 23, 2026, 7:05 AM

    @glyph reframe. People are busy doing a million other more important things to stay alive, so of course they're going to ship the prototype.

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  • ggdupontgdupont@framapiaf.org
    Apr 23, 2026, 3:26 AM

    @codinghorror
    @glyph
    Deeply shared feeling.
    I had this serious discussion with a colleague about code review: when I ask him to review my code, I want him to have a serious look... not his claude even if he "validated" claude's review. The goal is him to get to know (and eventually crush) my code.

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  • poleguy looking for lost toolspoleguy@mastodon.social
    Apr 23, 2026, 3:09 AM

    @glyph If ai turns out capable of doing all the work and keeping all the money, I'll volunteer to personally lead the revolt, seize the ai that does all the work, and use it to set us all free instead. Then we can all do whatever we fancy rather than working all the time.

    Sadly that's not a likely outcome. The ai isn't going to be able to do all the work and the ai owners will have to back pedal on their promises and continue using human labor.

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  • Petra van CronenburgNatureMC@mastodon.online
    Apr 23, 2026, 10:22 AM

    @glyph It's a wonderful way to sort out thoughts of complex stuff with kids! I often imagine writing for children's TV to get to the point. But if you can ask real kids that's great: they see what adults don't want to see.

    I remember well 10 yrs old kids in the late 1970s telling us about the dangerous destruction of forests and that it would change the weather.

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  • Glyphglyph@mastodon.social
    Apr 24, 2026, 8:48 PM

    @haverholm there’s a real tension between stealing credit and exposing an elementary schooler’s identity to the vicissitudes of social media, even on the fediverse

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  • Allan Haverholmhaverholm@radikal.social
    Apr 25, 2026, 7:59 AM

    @glyph Absolutely. I wouldn't suggest that you publish his online handles 🙂 But at least an acknowledgement, then!

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  • George Bgbargoud@masto.nyc
    Apr 25, 2026, 1:47 PM

    @glyph

    A picture I saw at the elementary school where my daughter does soccer

    A hand drawn poster saying "We are real" over the letter H made to look like a human and then "AI is NOT!" over an A made to look like an aggressive robot
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