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Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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Sorry, my English was approximative, I meant that I would need to be sarcastic. But yeah, it does. Of course, sarcasm always works out great with people who don't already get that they are boring you to death with a long monologue...

Your english was correct; I believe the reply was humorously misinterpreting your meaning (it might even qualify as sarcastic).

Bingo.

Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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post #286

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> ... or practice sarcasm On the plus side, it gets easier with practice.

Sorry, my English was approximative, I meant that I would need to be sarcastic. But yeah, it does. Of course, sarcasm always works out great with people who don't already get that they are boring you to death with a long monologue...

Your English was fine. I was just playing along by being sarcastic in return. :)

Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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it was written by AI. search up speed reading. you can double or triple your reading speed in a day.

Consume 2-3x the AI slop in a single day with this one simple trick!

Unfortunately, as the website has demonstrated, you are getting 50x amount of AI slop compared to non-slop. So in the end, you still lose.

Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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Honestly, speaking as a friend, and as someone who's been at this a very long time, maybe stop doing that? It doesn't foster conversion and I personally find it kind of a hostile/disrespectful communication style. It's much harder to have a proper back and forth with a firehouse than it is a few sentences at a time. It declares authority "these are the facts" rather than "let's discuss ideas" and if you haven't fully…

Some people, like me, have developed this communication style because it turned out that when they didn't they were very often misunderstood. When properly applied (i.e., not excessively, no actual walls of text), giving appropriate context helps focus the thinking of the receiver in the right direction.

...but yeah, every now and then I do get comments that I'm very wordy.

Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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Using clanker kinda shows how racist you are. If you get defensive its true

It's not, because clankers don't have a race

I agree robots do not have a race in the most literal, autistic interpetation of the sentence.

It's the shape of the behavior. It translates from a primordial belief systems that enables someone to say its okay to position themselves above something.

The word robot originates from the Czech term robotnik, meaning "forced worker," which is derived from robota, denoting forced labor or drudgery performed by feudal serfs. This Czech word traces its roots to the Old Church Slavonic rabota (servitude) and the Slavic root rabu, which literally means slave

Remember history? Its not okay to subjugate human beings?

People that pounce of clanker type behavior are definitely problematic behind closed doors

Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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> You asked a simple question. They lobbed a document. I’ve become so cynical that I cannot read this phrasing without thinking it came from… an LLM. This cynicism also negatively impacts human communication. This constant doubt of whether there was a thinker on the other side of the text.

I was surprised because the writing _seemed_ focused and It at least credits what they copied from "nohello.com" ... but when you compare the 2 sites it becomes obvious that the AI was definitely prompted something like "make a copy of nohello.com but for people posting AI slop" and that's all the actual human thought that went into this. The structure is the same as the source and has just been LLM-ified so it kept some of the same source tone.

Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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Hence: > If you encounter a slop grenade, share this page Culture is cultured, it isn't the wilds, and requires pruning.

This is the sort of thing that only someone on the spectrum would consider doing in a professional setting, and they will end up getting coached by HR.

Oh, the irony.

Re: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations

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> Worse: it's a conversation killer. There's nothing to respond to. Your wall of text suppresses dialogue. They can't reply, can't push back, can't clarify. It's a weapon disguised as helpfulness. Also my main problem with many chat bots. Too many different aspects brought up at once. Short answers would be more eco-friendly too.

I find this to be my current number 1 challenge when working on a terminal and seeking explanations for why a problem was approached in that way. the terminal only holds so many lines at once. Let's not talk about current scrolling in terminals.

It's interesting that the LLM will oblige my succinctness requests for one or two replies then back to 7 paragraph answers that I can't reply to point by point in a TUI.

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