Amusing story here from Jonathan Bailey on “NaNoWriMo’s Massive AI Blunder.” I’m reminded of those people who lie about their running times in zero-stakes races.
Bailey’s article is a pleasure to read because it’s just straight-up common sense.
Amusing story here from Jonathan Bailey on “NaNoWriMo’s Massive AI Blunder.” I’m reminded of those people who lie about their running times in zero-stakes races.
Bailey’s article is a pleasure to read because it’s just straight-up common sense.
Ironically, “say nothing” was the strategy they chose when faced with allegations of child luring to an adult fetish website operated by a forum moderator.
Until that strategy became unworkable. Then they unleashed page after page of nonresponse mixed with condescension and derision aimed at forum members.
But the real irony is just how comically bad at writing they all are. In particular, bureaucratese and condescension make strange bedfellows. That combination emerges again in the statements about AI, a banal nonresponse accompanied by some weird pearl-clutching about ableism. They seem to have pretended to be unable to distinguish between spell check and generative AI for no reason other than to poke at their forum members. What a strange corner of the internet!
I suppose a refinement of the advice would be “If you don’t have to say anything, don’t say anything. If you must say something, be as direct and concise as possible.”