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Fighting back against AI chatbots at work

4•FunForEveryone•40m ago
They put an AI chatbot where "Home" was before at work Slack, which is now one slot lower. Cannot be disabled or moved. I keep hitting it by accident, really fucking up my muscle memory.

Decided to get back at it and waste some of its resources by having it solve some prime numbers or knapsack problems but it was pretty fast at those. So I gave it a 700 page PDF of "The History of the Modern Middle East" and told it to summarize it in a way that is culturally sensitive to people of Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist religious faiths.

It's still chugging.

Comments

deepcover•24m ago
Let us know how it goes.
FunForEveryone•20m ago
It's still slowly vomiting text, one chapter at a time. If it's just me, probably won't do much, but at least they'll waste some tokens. Hoping for HN visibility to get others to do similar.

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