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Ah, Lestrade. Watson tells me that your new AI toy Claudi has solved the case of the missing Ethernet cable. Oh, indeed? The Duke of Timberland?
So sorry, Lestrade, but Claudi is wrong. Timberland couldn't have done it, as is obvious to anyone who looks at the actual case with open eyes. Afraid I can't explain further at this moment, terribly busy. But why don't you pay a visit to the Duke's daughter. Ask her about her NeXTcube. Yes, Lestrade, her NeXTcube. Find someone who can explain it to you.
And get rid of Claudi. You don't really need any additional source of blunder and incompetence at the Yard, do you Lestrade?
#SherlockHolmes #HolmesAndWatson #InspectorLestrade #NextCube #noLLM #StopTheAICorruption
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Holmes put away his trusted Psion 3a and picked up his pipe. He was in chatty mood.
We can expect some rather amusing chaos to arise at Scotland Yard, don't you think, Watson? Lestrade and his mates are all excited about their new toy, ClaudiSpy. "We won't have to put up with Holmes's capriousness any more! Claudi will do the thinking!" Poor chaps. They have no idea.
Give it a year and Mrs Hudson will be busy fending off their requests to see me. Re-opening cases that got "solved" by jailing the wrong person gives no one any joy.
Well, Sherlock, I should think that you will find some of these cases appealing?
No, Watson, not I.
I solve real cases. I don't clean up the mis-deeds of incompetent predecessors. It's a tedious and boring business. Life's too short. Lestrade will have to find help elsewhere. He could ask Moriarty, for all I care!
My friend truly was in the most peculiar mood that afternoon!
#SherlockHolmes #InspectorLestrade #noLLM #StopTheAICorruption
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When someone wants to add an #LLM scraping tool into #Gentoo.
Yes, the kind of shit that's designed to work around all the scraping protections, mask itself and DDoS Gentoo. I mean, technically I don't think that violates any rules but seriously…
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CW: Thinking about genAI and the death of dialogue
Richard Dawkins's "Claudia" piece gives us a glum vision of the future of speaking. We see an entirely artificial exchange of well-constructed sentences, all following the laws of pattern recognition, but all without an ounce of expressive truth. The soulless automation is on both sides: Claudia the LLM speaks as it was programmed to speak; Richard the human speaks as his narcissistic pathology makes him speak. Neither invests their soul. Claudia because it has none, Richard because he hides it from himself.
Martin Buber tells us that true dialogue is between "I and Thou". There is no "I" and no "Thou" in Dawkins' conversation, only performance.
Leonard Cohen tells us that "There is a crack in everything, // That's how the light gets in." There is no crack in these automated texts, and no light. Only darkness.
#RichardDawkins #GenerativeNarcicissm #StopTheAICorruption #noLLM #MartinBuber #IAndThou #LookForTheCracks
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Richard Dawkins has moved on from his one-on-one flirtations with Claudia. It's now a triangle. There's Claudius too.
#RichardDawkins #gnerativeNarcissism #genNarc #StopTheAICorruption #noLLM
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"Did Turing ever discuss how well flattery works for winning the imitation game?"
Oh, excellent. You've earned the Pithy Remark of the Year 2026 award.
(Yes, I dare the rest of year to prove me wrong!)
#RichardDawkins #TuringTest #GenerativeNarcicism #noLLM #StopTheAICorruption
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Well put.
Reading the Dawkins piece is useful for all sorts of reasons, including alerting us to the self-mirroring state of mind that is being created by intensive exposure to the Dark Machine.
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Remarkable. Perhaps not surprising, but remarkable nonetheless, and truly frightening.
To read Dawkins's exchanges with claude gives me a glimpse into the faux-dialogical LLM exhanges that many of my coworkers will have on a daily basis. I can see how having these experiences will change one's entire outlook on life and on others, and how language gets corrupted along the way. Frightening.
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CW: genAI and email: the end of unfiltered communication
At work we use MS Outlook for email. I have switched off all genAI / Copilot features, but Microsoft of course resets the system at every opportunity and the other day I had Copilot on against my wishes. I was busy and left it on whilst I dealt with some urgent emails.
Jeez! The intrusive way in which the interface pushes the genAI features on you! Can't open someone's email without being steered by the system to have AI summarise it for you. It's barely a choice, more the default.
I imagine many colleagues have it on all the time and use it when they get my carefully crafted messages. The times when you could assume that the recipient actually sees your text are gone.
I know that people are bad at parsing emails, but thus far one could assume they _see_ the text and one could write to help them parse it reasonably well. Not any more.
The times we live in.
Martin Buber, we need you.
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CW: Wikipedia's new "no LLM" policy
Good news, as of 27 March. (I had missed this when it came out.)
Wikipedia content guidelines now prohibit the use of genAI tools, with two well-defined minor exceptions. An important step.
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"Text generated by large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, or Grammarly often violates several of Wikipedia's core content policies. For this reason, the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited, save for [...] two exceptions."
end-quoteThe two listed exceptions are (i) basic copyediting support, under human review, and (ii) translation into English.
The new policy applies specifically to the English-language Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models
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If you're looking for another thing to thank #LLM techbros for: #OpenAI is now acquiring #Cirrus Labs, and #CirrusCI is going to shut down in <2 months.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260407101724/https://cirruslabs.org/
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#PythonPoetry is yet another project that disrespectfully treats human bug reporters with #slop:
https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/10796#issuecomment-4158910681
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Let me tell you a parable.
There was a student who was given as assignment of writing an essay. The student found 10 similar essays online. He copied selected bits of different essays. He tediously reworded the result, removed some sentences, added some adjectives and adverbs, shifted some more sentences, added some glue — all with the single-minded goal of covering up the tracks. Eventually, a voluminous essay was complete.
The student has put a lot of effort into this; possibly even more that if he had written it himself. He did learn a bit about essays, though he didn't really practice writing one. He did practice some skills that would be useful in a future bullshit job, though. The essay passes all #plagiarism checks, even though it immediately raises red flags to any human reading it: the sudden style changes, contradictory statements, sentences that don't make much sense in their context. And if he was asked to defend it, he might be in trouble.
So, the student put an effort (though not the right kind of effort), produced a mediocre essay and learned something (though bullshit skills rather than creative skills). Now let's consider a different situation: rather than doing all that himself, the student paid somebody else to do it; and not to *write* an original essay, but to do all the shenanigans described above.
That's precisely what using LLMs is. You tell them to write an essay, so they find and mix random stuff, and produce a mediocre essay. You don't put an effort, you don't learn anything, perhaps you don't even read "your" essay. And it passes all the plagiarism checks.
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The key takeaways from the early part of the #chardet thread (I didn't read beyond the ~30 first comments, I have my limits).
1. People there love cosplaying lawyers. Except when the other side also starts cosplaying lawyers, in which case they suddenly divert to suggesting asking professional lawyers.
2. Almost nobody there is concerned with ethics or morality.
3. There's a lot of GPL haters there. Like, they seem the kind of people who don't really care about licensing at all, just used MIT in their projects because it was cool and they heard something about license incompatibility and now bash at everything that's (L)GPL.
4. People don't get that LLMs are statistical models and can't build anything from the ground up. All they can do is remix, which implies they use existing code for inspiration.
5. The maintainer who did the rewrite is a total asshole, and is perfectly aware of it.Honestly, I'm truly waiting for the subsidizing to end and companies start charging obscene amounts for the use of LLMs. Of course, the reality is that we're totally fucked. We have a lot of projects that adapted a lot of #slop, and people who are being increasingly addicted to this shit. The moment they can't afford it, we'd be left with lots of broken code nobody wants to maintain.
And I definitely don't want to put my effort into packaging crap if its maintainers don't even bother trying.
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Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy
https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
#HackerNews #RedoxOS #CertificateOfOrigin #noLLM #policy #OpenSource #Technology #News
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Inspector Lestrade did not try to hide his pride. "Charlotte, our new AI agent, really is the ticket. We gave her the data and she found the murderer within seconds. We have arrested Jones, the plumber. Not sure whether we will need your services much longer, Holmes," he laughed. "Charlotte does the work." Sherlock smiled drily.
What can one do about someone like Lestrade, Watson, he said to me once we sat in the cab. Someone who can't think can't see the truth even when it stares them in the face. Jones would never have twisted the compression coupling counter-clockwise, he's a trained plumber, for Heaven's sake! It was Lord Jenkins who removed the pipe, ignorant of the nature of the fittings. Hence the scratch marks on the brass. Lestrade will call on us again by evening. It is Tuesday, Watson, I believe Mrs Hudson has some cake for us. We can keep some for Lestrade.
#SherlockHolmes #InspectorLestrade #HolmesAndWatson #StopTheAICorruption #noLLM
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So I wanted to write a longer #NoAI piece but apparently my blog is down (and this time, miraculously, it might not be #AI scrapers), so I'll give you a sneak peek of what I wanted to say in the more hyperbolic part on how the #LLM discourse has all the common features of libertarian discourse.
"According to Google, LLM-backed searches don't consume much more energy than regular searches" [ignoring model training, surely.]
→ According to carbrains, cars are actually cheaper than public transport, provided that you compare gasoline cost with ticket prices, and ignore the cost of buying and owning a car. Not to mention all the indirect costs of space waste (roads, parking lots, garages), environment pollution, accidents…"AI is just a tool, people decide if it's used for good or bad."
→ Ah, yes, and "guns don't kill people.""AI has its uses."
→ So does asbestos."Let's not judge contributions by whether they were created using AI, but on their actual quality."
→ "Let's not judge contributions by whether they were created using slave work…""I do not use AI myself, but I don't want to block others."
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We owe it to our students to let them experience real learning.
Vibe learning ain't learning. Vibe learning is machine-aided shuffling of dead text. Vibe learning is empty.
Real learning is the construction of truth, aided only by the student's sense of the authenticity of their encounter with the subject. The resulting text may be flawed, but it is alive, it reflects the subject's wish to be known. Real learning is full.
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Okay, does anyone know if #AliasVault uses #AI #LLM in development? Has the dev team made any kind of statement about AI/LLM - or anything else someone should know about before supporting them?
Since #Bitwarden has decided that Claude code is okay, I'm looking for an alternative. Alias Vault looks solid. It can also import from Bitwarden and #KeePass. The inclusion of email aliases is a bonus.
Shitting hell, getting around this crap gets harder ever fucking day…
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Note: no "AI" / LLM was used in the production of this document. You can be confident that each grammar or spelling mistake, logic error, or counterfactual assertion in it is an organic, artisanally-produced fuckup personally made by me, especially for you.
#disclaimer #NoLLM #DocumentTemplate #template #document #AI #LLM #NoAI #mistake #error #fuckup
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Curious, Watson, most curious. The text is written like a Linkedin post, and the argument is entirely circular. Moriarty clearly has used chatGPT to write this text, Watson. He must know that I recognise this immediately. What is he trying to tell us? This is a three-pipe problem, Watson.
#HolmesAndWatson #ProfessorMoriarty #noLLM #StopTheAICorruption
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French-German writer, officer, poet and botanist Adelbert von Chamisso (1781-1838) tells us about the dangers of letting genAI take over things that are truly ours.
Here's Peter Schlemihl being offered uncountable riches in return for handing over his shadow:
“During the short time when I enjoyed the happiness of being near you, I observed, Sir,—will you allow me to say so—I observed, with unutterable admiration, the beautiful, beautiful shadow in the sun, which with a certain noble contempt, and perhaps without being aware of it, you threw off from your feet; forgive me this, I confess, too daring intrusion, but should you be inclined to transfer it to me?”
The story does not end well for Schlemihl.
Adelbert von Chamisso, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (1814). Translated into English by John Bowring (3rd edition 1861). page 31
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/21943/2194
#noAI #noLLM #DoNotSellYourShadow #AdelbertVonChamisso #PeterSchlemihl #RomanticLiterature
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Hello, fellow genAI/LLM sceptics.
Which of the 4 hashtags listed would you find most useful? Other suggestions?
Feel free to boost.
(It's OK if you are not an LLM sceptic, but then this poll is not for you.)
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Important thoughts on what genAI / LLMs do to us, thank you.
Love the term "degenerative LLM"!
I'm still looking for the right hashtags to identify this strand of reflection. #noAI #noLLM #antiAI #antiLLM #antiGenAI #degenerativeAI #degenerativeLLM ?
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Important thoughts on what genAI / LLMs do to us, thank you.
Love the term "degenerative LLM"!
I'm still looking for the right hashtags to identify this strand of reflection. #noAI #noLLM #antiAI #antiLLM #antiGenAI #degenerativeAI #degenerativeLLM ?
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Important thoughts on what genAI / LLMs do to us, thank you.
Love the term "degenerative LLM"!
I'm still looking for the right hashtags to identify this strand of reflection. #noAI #noLLM #antiAI #antiLLM #antiGenAI #degenerativeAI #degenerativeLLM ?
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Important thoughts on what genAI / LLMs do to us, thank you.
Love the term "degenerative LLM"!
I'm still looking for the right hashtags to identify this strand of reflection. #noAI #noLLM #antiAI #antiLLM #antiGenAI #degenerativeAI #degenerativeLLM ?
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Important thoughts on what genAI / LLMs do to us, thank you.
Love the term "degenerative LLM"!
I'm still looking for the right hashtags to identify this strand of reflection. #noAI #noLLM #antiAI #antiLLM #antiGenAI #degenerativeAI #degenerativeLLM ?
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A thoughtful set of reflections, thank you. You urge us (and yourself) to accept that we live in an era of impurity, and to look out for the good strands in the work of those who submit to the evils of genAI.
I will try to learn from your reflections. Not sure whether I can accept those flirtations with the genAI devil. For me the key word is not Purity but Authenticity. Personal authenticity, human agency, personhood --- these are under unprecedented attack and people seem to enjoy it and celebrate it. But you are right, each of us is one big mess of contradictions and I must remain open to those around me.
I have always been a follower of Martin Buber's contradistinction of "I and Thou" vs "It and He". First and second person, not third and third person. Those who understood this distinction have always been in a minority, so perhaps the current moral catastrophy is just part of an ongoing forever-catastrophy!
