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I used to see AI generated images with lots of unintelligible writing or misspelled words in slides, but the speaker left them in anyway. “Good enough” is not c

I used to see AI generated images with lots of unintelligible writing or misspelled words in slides, but the speaker left them in anyway. “Good enough” is not customer obsession. This enforced adoption of immature GenAI reminds me of Milo Minderbinder trying to make people eat cotton in Catch 22, because he had inadvertently obtained a huge amount of it.

breppp 4mo ago
At least everyone gets an RSU
throw5 4mo ago
I don't know if there is another industry that behaves this childishly. There might be. But good grief, how much more juvenile can ours possibly get? AI-generated images with obviously nonsensical text is something I never thought I'd see in professional meetings. But it is becoming more and more common.
- nacozarina 4mo ago
  we’re witnessing how advanced civilizations actually die there’s no heroic clash with other civilizations, they simply rot away
  - oddly 4mo ago
    Check the podcast “Fall of Civilizations”, this is very true. This advanced civilization is actually dying.
supriyo-biswas 4mo ago
It remains to be seen whether GenAI only acts as an accelerant of organizational decline, by amplifying the laziness inherent in people.
- Spooky23 4mo ago
  It’s worse. Remember the “Prussian general 2x2”? https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/28/clever-lazy/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/28/clever-lazy/ AI enables the stupid and diligent. When I get long form emails from people I don’t know well, I assume that 80% of the time it’s AI bullshit. People are having AI respond with bullshit to other people’s bullshit. I’m actually deliberately adding bad grammar to communications as a hook that you should read it. It hurts my soul.
  - freeopinion 4mo ago
    During a recent semester final exam with fill in the blank questions, a student raised their hand to ask the teacher, "Do we get marked off for spelling?" The class was bewildered when the teacher answered, "Of course." Some students immediately turned in their exam assuming it would be impossible to pass.
fweimer 4mo ago
Long before GenAI, I saw people using meme generators a lot in corporate presentations. I found that equally jarring. Replacing that with GenAI stuff is probably an improvement. At least it's reducing legal risk. It seems more understandable to a global audience, too. I still don't have an explanation why people are doing this. Is it part of leadership training? Or do presenters have their own theory that including this stuff makes the presentation more memorable and enjoyable?
- anal_reactor 4mo ago
  People have a thing that they mimic the behavior of those above them in the hierarchy. CEO used a meme once because they thought it's funny, then everyone did this in order to mimic CEO. Why was leetcode so popular? Because Google did it and they were the cool kids at the time.
  - lokar 4mo ago
    And that started when we hired a couple people who were into competitive programming an started an event/contest
  - _DeadFred_ 4mo ago
    Being a grey beard, white board tests were popular because we didn't have an applicant pool experienced in software development. So we gave people logic and problem solving tests to see if they had the right type of thinking/temperament to train them up to be software devs. They didn't evolve into the trash they are now until later.

breppp 4mo ago

At least everyone gets an RSU

throw5 4mo ago

I don't know if there is another industry that behaves this childishly. There might be. But good grief, how much more juvenile can ours possibly get? AI-generated images with obviously nonsensical text is something I never thought I'd see in professional meetings. But it is becoming more and more common.

nacozarina 4mo ago
we’re witnessing how advanced civilizations actually die there’s no heroic clash with other civilizations, they simply rot away
- oddly 4mo ago
  Check the podcast “Fall of Civilizations”, this is very true. This advanced civilization is actually dying.

supriyo-biswas 4mo ago

It remains to be seen whether GenAI only acts as an accelerant of organizational decline, by amplifying the laziness inherent in people.

Spooky23 4mo ago
It’s worse. Remember the “Prussian general 2x2”? https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/28/clever-lazy/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/28/clever-lazy/ AI enables the stupid and diligent. When I get long form emails from people I don’t know well, I assume that 80% of the time it’s AI bullshit. People are having AI respond with bullshit to other people’s bullshit. I’m actually deliberately adding bad grammar to communications as a hook that you should read it. It hurts my soul.
- freeopinion 4mo ago
  During a recent semester final exam with fill in the blank questions, a student raised their hand to ask the teacher, "Do we get marked off for spelling?" The class was bewildered when the teacher answered, "Of course." Some students immediately turned in their exam assuming it would be impossible to pass.

fweimer 4mo ago

Long before GenAI, I saw people using meme generators a lot in corporate presentations. I found that equally jarring. Replacing that with GenAI stuff is probably an improvement. At least it's reducing legal risk. It seems more understandable to a global audience, too. I still don't have an explanation why people are doing this. Is it part of leadership training? Or do presenters have their own theory that including this stuff makes the presentation more memorable and enjoyable?

anal_reactor 4mo ago
People have a thing that they mimic the behavior of those above them in the hierarchy. CEO used a meme once because they thought it's funny, then everyone did this in order to mimic CEO. Why was leetcode so popular? Because Google did it and they were the cool kids at the time.
- lokar 4mo ago
  And that started when we hired a couple people who were into competitive programming an started an event/contest
- _DeadFred_ 4mo ago
  Being a grey beard, white board tests were popular because we didn't have an applicant pool experienced in software development. So we gave people logic and problem solving tests to see if they had the right type of thinking/temperament to train them up to be software devs. They didn't evolve into the trash they are now until later.