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Re:My private information is worth $30 on Saturday November 22, 2025 @06:50AM (#46014078)
> This same university which promised a life access to email address which they did not honor, ...

A tangent, but I had the same thing with my university. I wonder how common this is, and if google is the common thread...

Re:AI Horseless Carriages on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @06:44PM (#43777454)
I wonder sometime if this is why there is such an enthusiasm gap over AI between tech people and the general public. It's not just that your average person can't program; it's that they don't even conceptually understand why programming could unlock.
Re:AI Slop, Suspicion, and Writing Back on Sunday January 26, 2025 @02:55AM (#42828529)
I think the author does cover their bases there:

> To be clear, I fault no one for augmenting their writing with LLMs. I do it. A lot now. It’s a great breaker of writers block. But I really do judge those who copy/paste directly from an LLM into a human-space text arena.

When writing in my second language, I am leaning very heavily on AI to generate plausible writing based on an outline, after which I extensively tweak things (often by adversarial discussion with ChatGPT). It scares me that someone will see it as AI slop though, especially if the original premise of my writing was flimsy...