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Too many slop grenades these days. LLMs are cool and all, but does every Slack message need to be a bulleted list where the first sentence of each item is bold?
I recently read one too many blog posts with the phrase, āitās not X, itās Yā as a one-line paragraph and finally snapped. It is now my lifeās mission to purge selfish LLM usage from the internet.
Define āselfishā
Selfish LLM usage: A situation in which someone uses an LLM to save their own time at the expense of other peopleās time, resulting in a net productivity loss.
Opinions vary on the usefulness of LLMs, but hopefully we can all agree that using them selfishly is cringe.
Nevertheless, people use AI selfishly all the time. This is not surprising: many people are under heavy time pressure and some people arenāt even aware theyāre doing it. But the world would be a better place if people stopped.
But itās not polite to call someone out for blatantly using AI when their brain would have sufficed. The trick is subtlety. I propose a method of subtly shaming people with plausible deniability:
Secretly make fun of people via emojis Other things (less fun)
Dog whistle emojis
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