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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, “it’s not X, it’s Y” as a one-line paragraph and finally snapped. It is now my life’s mission to purge selfish LLM usage from the internet.
Define “selfish”
Selfish LLM usage: A situation in which someone uses an LLM to save their own time at the expense of other people’s 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 aren’t even aware they’re doing it. But the world would be a better place if people stopped.
But it’s 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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