I've been on a crusade against sloppy use of AI recently. A conversation between my brother and I spawned the idea of "emoji reaction dog whistles" and I couldn't stop thinking about the idea until I wrote it down. Not meant to be taken very seriously, but not entirely UNseriously either

A lot of obvious LLM speech is obvious, but please spare us academics and former academics who learned how to use an em- and en-dash properly. Proper writing in general is being derided by younger folks who are too uneducated to tell the difference. I recently had someone claim my company's website, which is virtually unchanged since 2020, was "obviously AI." Yeah, kid, except you can go on Internet Archive and see it before ChatGPT was dropped.

But it doesn't matter. It's just playing chess with pigeons at that point.

The irony of someone writing a blog post purely to rage-bait (or rage-engage?) against "slop grenades." Slop grenades can also be made by humans you know, and I'd argue this post is at least a flashbang.

I just started referring to those coworkers as Claude directly. Not like, at the start of the message, but after the first line? Nobody’s noticed yet.

thank you, I'll put this PR checklist in my claude.md

This type of mentality is really not helping anyone. If you really think shaming people works, I don't know what planet youve been on for the past 10 years. And I reallllly dont trust any of you to accurately determine intent lol.

The people going around pointing fingers about AI often get it wrong. Just listened to a podcast in which the host baselessly accused a film studio of using AI in their marketing and they later had to apologize because GUESS WHAT? An actual artist with feelings made the poster she was talking about. I'd honestly rather let a hundred AI fraudsters off the hook than falsely accuse one person of using it when they actually made a genuine effort.

I get pretty aggressive about this. I tell them if they expect human effort in review, then they should put some human effort into what they send me. Then I defuse it by ending on a positive tone with some tips about how to prompt better.

It’s worked well so far. Most people only send me that slop once.

Just reply “I gave this to Claude and it didn’t understand what you meant - can you rephrase?”

Well...

FTA: "Opinions vary on the usefulness of LLMs, but hopefully we can all agree that using them selfishly is cringe."

LLM = Bad, Human = Good

LLM's output can be useful and informed. If your going to deny that then I dont know what to tell you to convince you otherwise.

How about we get back to holding humans accountable, for the LLM's output and their own. I can point you at people who are using LLM's to make actual art, and it is GOOD (strong stories, social commentary and so on). I can point you to lawyers who are using LLM's to great success. Reading and redlining documents is part of being good at the job and trained into them by trade.

Stop blaming the tool for peoples poor behavior.

This is neat. I'd love to figure out a sequence of emojis that triggers the LLM in ways that puzzles a human.