The Onion has an AI policy.
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The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear
@jalefkowit “whom we reluctantly acknowledge “ — comedy gold
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The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear
Oh dear, I hope Global Tetrahedron doesn't find out about this.
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The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear
@jalefkowit Turns out, it's easy!
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The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear
Could not be more to the point than this…
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The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear
@jalefkowit Undefeated.
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The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear
@jalefkowit InfoWars is probably in play though. AI slop substitutes for Alex Jones slop.
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The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear
@jalefkowit The onion has always stood for the people. Trust and integrity you can believe in.
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The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear
@jalefkowit I love the Onion.
But.
About this. What's wrong with AI isn't that it replaces some people. What's wrong is that it does not and cannot replace people, and yet the stupid thing is being used that way.
And another thing. Even if it could replace people, but the profits were shared fairly so we all had universal incomes, we'd find plenty of ways to have good lives without jobs.
The first issue means it's causing a rot of everything creative. That is Bad.
The second, that the profits are going to next to nobody, is causing social rot. That is equally Bad.
And good for the Onion for making the distinction between "generative" AI and, implicitly, the other kind. Expert systems. Autocomplete on steroids is worthless. Expert systems can be very useful.
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The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear
@jalefkowit
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The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear
@jalefkowit So are they gonna leave WordPress VIP, the "AI agent-ready enterprise content platform"?
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@jalefkowit I love the Onion.
But.
About this. What's wrong with AI isn't that it replaces some people. What's wrong is that it does not and cannot replace people, and yet the stupid thing is being used that way.
And another thing. Even if it could replace people, but the profits were shared fairly so we all had universal incomes, we'd find plenty of ways to have good lives without jobs.
The first issue means it's causing a rot of everything creative. That is Bad.
The second, that the profits are going to next to nobody, is causing social rot. That is equally Bad.
And good for the Onion for making the distinction between "generative" AI and, implicitly, the other kind. Expert systems. Autocomplete on steroids is worthless. Expert systems can be very useful.
@quixote @jalefkowit machine learning, expert systems, big data analysis, etc. We've had those for decades. They are useful AI.
It's Generative AI (which is >95% of the current investment) is the problem.
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@jalefkowit there's no way it could ever be as good as the onion anyway. fuck ai, hell yeah for sorta doing the bare minimum as an organization.
@Crow @jalefkowit I don't see why you say bare minimum. Today this is a principled position that is against the grain regardless of what you, I, or Mastodon think. We should applaud and push them to maintain that position, but it's not the bare minimum IMO.
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The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear
Actually, why shouldn't code belong to that list? Can't code also be creative?
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The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear
@jalefkowit ok but the onion should write a secondary funny AI policy because it'd be funny -
@jalefkowit The onion has always stood for the people. Trust and integrity you can believe in.
@Di7life @jalefkowit trust and integrity you can believe in although not generally recommended to do so
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The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear
@jalefkowit "... our audience, whom we reluctantly acknowledge"
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The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear
@jalefkowit and this is one of the reasons we love them
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@jalefkowit So are they gonna leave WordPress VIP, the "AI agent-ready enterprise content platform"?
@Rana @jalefkowit some company giving you the option to use a thing doesn't mean you have to use the thing.
Mods have disabled it in the back end for a publication I volunteer with so I don't even have to look at the AI buttons.Better than being on Substack.
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Actually, why shouldn't code belong to that list? Can't code also be creative?
@stardust @jalefkowit it can be, but it's not definitionally? I guess not all writing is creative writing, but it is fundamental to their existence. Code much less so.
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The Onion has an AI policy. It is refreshingly clear
@jalefkowit makes my subscription to the print version even more worth it. Highly recommend 10 out of 10
