I wish people would stop using the "but there are legitimate use cases" argument to recommend some slop machine to me.
I won't use it! I will stop listening to them! I won't even listen to anything else they might have to say unless they are able to make a convincing case how Slop-enAI (and its ilk) will ever stop roasting the planet, rotting our brains, and burning money in any other way than by going bankrupt.
I'm so exhausted by the Slop Mania!
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#LLMs #StopTheSlop
https://chaos.social/@Nfoonf/116091856268494160
Spätestens jetzt sollte doch das Rasenbetretungsverbot passé sein? Bahnsteigkarten-Schwarzfahren, olé-olé?
"Nimmt Elon uns die Schüssel,
hau'n wir ihm auf den Rüssel"? Anybody...?! 🤨
I'll pitch you a new reality show: "Tech's New Slop Models".
We gather a few ambitious LLM bros in a house and let them compete for the most over-the-top application of their beloved slop machines (so, basically what they're already doing all the time).
The winner - in the truest futurist tech bro fashion - get's a one way ticket to Mars, departure immediately.
Would you watch it? Maybe just the finale?
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#StopTheSlop #LLMs
Today in "Stories from a Coworking-Space":
The LLM bros a few tables away from mine are talking about the business plan for their 'revolutionary' slop machine.
One of them keeps saying 'market infestation' when talking about the market share they're dreaming of.
I don't think that he chose this particular wording as a result of critical deliberations. I think he likes it because it sounds aggressive.
But I also think 'infestation' describes the slop madness beautifully.
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#StopTheSlop #LLMs
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645
wtf i used to like Ars
more like Arse Technica
I guess we just can't have nice things
STOP USING GENERATIVE A.I (Original Song): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsQtUSTSX40
#Music #StopTheSlop
Assitarians Unite! :epic_handshake: 🤣
404 media has the scoop on the disasterous RFK Jr. chatbot rollout
As someone who has been living in Austria all his life, I feel compelled to sincerely apologize for the latest, apparently vibe-coded slop machine security disaster 'made in Austria'. 🙄
For some context, just type 'OpenClaw' into the web search engine of your choice (and ignore all the usual LLM hype content).
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#StopTheSlop
This has been said a lot, but it has to be said again:
Please stop calling slop machines 'artificial intelligence'!
It is a marketing term. By framing those machines as intelligent, the companies building them are trying to make us believe that their products are more than stolen data, wasteful hardware, and statistics. But they are not!
We have to educate people what those machines really are, and that starts with taking away the false mystery created by advertising!
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#LLMs #StopTheSlop
looking for this...
GLOBAL CONFIG OPTION
USE_AI_FEATURES = "false"
Thought for the day:
If you can't do it without AI, maybe you shouldn't do it.
Usually whenever I voice a critical view of LLMs, someone swoops in and tries to debate me with some variation of "But you're using a computer, right? What's the difference? Doesn't your computer make you stupid too?!"
Well, my sweet wannabe tech bro, let me tell you. One of the many differences is that I'm spending countless hours to learn how those computers work and how to use them according to my rules. Try that with your Big Tech LLM - if you still can without asking it.
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#StopTheSlop
Each time I hear someone say "We have to get people ready for AI [sic!], it's the future!", what I really hear is "We have to prepare people for lobotomies at scale and in the most destructive way for the environment and our society!"
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#StopTheSlop
Warhammer Maker Games Workshop Bans Its Staff From Using AI in Its Content or Designs, Says None of Its Senior Managers Are Currently Excited About the Tech - IGN
https://www.ign.com/articles/warhammer-maker-games-workshop-bans-its-staff-from-using-ai-in-its-content-or-designs-says-none-of-its-senior-managers-are-currently-excited-about-the-tech
Wenn ich den ganzen AI-Slop im Feed sehe. 😶
#stoptheslop #aislop #kigeneriert #ainonsenseart #digitalkompetenz #nurselbstgemachtistwirklichgut #dergoldenealuhut
When someone says "I've used powerpoint AI for my slides"
I hear "I don't care enough about either you, myself, my topic or the implications of giving predatory corporations the power to shape our thinking and communication".
@brettezeleliquide tatsächlich bin ich auch hier wieder auf ki-shice reingefallen. 🤬🤢
#stopai #stoptheslop
If you use an AI-generated image for your article/post, this indicates to me you might have also used AI-generated text.
If you use AI-generated text for your article/post then:
1- I have no idea if you verified the veracity of any claimed facts.
2- I have no idea what your own voice is.
3- I have no idea if this truly expresses your own views, and if you even cared to read it.
4- I have no idea what your intention is with this, other than exploiting my attention and clicks with the least amount of efforts on your part.
5- This shows me you have no respect at all for the labour that was stolen to build these tools, exploiting millions of artists and writers to make billions of dollars without any compensation to them whatsoever.
Why would I want to engage with any content like that?
• I don't want to communicate with a machine (I can do that by myself).
• I don't want to participate in this disgusting exploitation of artists and writers.
• And I want to communicate with another human, of course.
If your intention isn't to communicate with another human, then stop deceiving them making them think they are :no_ai:
So, if you don't want Calibre to have an LLM, I believe your point of no return is version 8.11. :NoAI: Luckily, since Debian Stable is reasonable, the repository still has 8.5.
The thing I would recommend is if you use Calibre regularly and do not want any "ai" garbage, mark your version now in APT and hope that the @grimthorpe 's Clbre fork project continues to advance (I have hope) so that it will make a newer version of Calibre without LLM's easy to install.
For the time being, my Debian (and Debian based distro) friends, you can mark the current version to be safe.
Just run:
sudo apt-mark hold calibre calibre-bin
And to check that it worked, run:
apt-mark showhold
Edit: Added @pacavegano 's suggestion to original command.
#Clbre #Calibre #Debian #Debian13 #APT #ebooks #Kindle #noai #ai #chatgpt #openai #Google #Gemini #stoptheslop #slop #GNULinux #GNU #Linux
