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This appears to be a completely AI-generated article, in which AI is telling us how to protect ourselves against AI. I don't know what's going over at IEEE, but

This appears to be a completely AI-generated article, in which AI is telling us how to protect ourselves against AI. I don't know what's going over at IEEE, but every article from them that I've seen in the past year is like that and I really don't understand what's the long game.

r_lee 13d ago
it seems like the entire world is in some kind of delusional trance, generating "value" with these AI slop articles and AI art or maybe it's just that I can't imagine people actually putting their time into reading this all when they pick up on the LLMisms. maybe they'll just stop reading these articles altogether
- Xirdus 13d ago
  With been in delusional trance for 30+ years generating "value" in form of endless documents, analyses, memos, presentations, reviews, reports, and so on and so forth. The only thing that changed recently is that producing documents is now easier than ever.
  - _dark_matter_ 13d ago
    Strong disagree. Do not conflate hard, human created works with AI slop.
  - sashank_1509 13d ago
    I agree, there’s a lot of truth to this statement, AI in a sense is exposing how worthless this always was
  - sublinear 13d ago
    The impatience you have for planning work that doesn't immediately "do the thing" is precisely the same attitude that got us into this mess. I'm more convinced by the day that there's a significant amount of undiagnosed or uncontrolled ADHD fueling all the stupid moves.
    - Xirdus 12d ago
      Don't get me wrong. Planning is essential in getting anything done. But in my humble experience, 80% of planning documents are entirely useless, and the last 20% could be shortened by 80% without loss of quality. For other kinds of documents - reports, presentations, etc. - the numbers are even worse. Corporate world is obsessed with producing text to unhealthy degree. AI generation is the result, not the cause.
      - sublinear 12d ago
        In my experience, what is "useless" to me is required by another team. Believe it or not, that's what the majority of the business thinks about software code too, and you're only further proving my point.
        Xirdus 12d ago
        There are teams that do work, and there are teams that don't do work. It's no coincidence that most documents exclusively benefit the latter. Ironically, the documents that would actually help people doing work are often missing and/or incomplete and there's never budget to write them properly - up-to-date descriptions of processes, product manuals, API references beyond what's automatically generated, troubleshooting guides for common problems, onboarding materials, and so on. But somehow we have dedicated people to write detailed five year plans that never get completed and such. I can't help but wonder if ease of writing rather than usefulness is the core determinant of what gets written.
- lightandlight 13d ago
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randomblock1 13d ago
The writer is the CEO of... whatever this is: https://auraspark.com/ https://auraspark.com/ Completely slopped up website, zero human touch. I would even go so far as to call them a hyprocrite, for getting AI to do all that for them instead of, you guessed it, training a junior engineer to do it.
Darkeduck 10d ago
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r_lee 13d ago

it seems like the entire world is in some kind of delusional trance, generating "value" with these AI slop articles and AI art or maybe it's just that I can't imagine people actually putting their time into reading this all when they pick up on the LLMisms. maybe they'll just stop reading these articles altogether

Xirdus 13d ago
With been in delusional trance for 30+ years generating "value" in form of endless documents, analyses, memos, presentations, reviews, reports, and so on and so forth. The only thing that changed recently is that producing documents is now easier than ever.
- _dark_matter_ 13d ago
  Strong disagree. Do not conflate hard, human created works with AI slop.
- sashank_1509 13d ago
  I agree, there’s a lot of truth to this statement, AI in a sense is exposing how worthless this always was
- sublinear 13d ago
  The impatience you have for planning work that doesn't immediately "do the thing" is precisely the same attitude that got us into this mess. I'm more convinced by the day that there's a significant amount of undiagnosed or uncontrolled ADHD fueling all the stupid moves.
  - Xirdus 12d ago
    Don't get me wrong. Planning is essential in getting anything done. But in my humble experience, 80% of planning documents are entirely useless, and the last 20% could be shortened by 80% without loss of quality. For other kinds of documents - reports, presentations, etc. - the numbers are even worse. Corporate world is obsessed with producing text to unhealthy degree. AI generation is the result, not the cause.
    - sublinear 12d ago
      In my experience, what is "useless" to me is required by another team. Believe it or not, that's what the majority of the business thinks about software code too, and you're only further proving my point.
      - Xirdus 12d ago
        There are teams that do work, and there are teams that don't do work. It's no coincidence that most documents exclusively benefit the latter. Ironically, the documents that would actually help people doing work are often missing and/or incomplete and there's never budget to write them properly - up-to-date descriptions of processes, product manuals, API references beyond what's automatically generated, troubleshooting guides for common problems, onboarding materials, and so on. But somehow we have dedicated people to write detailed five year plans that never get completed and such. I can't help but wonder if ease of writing rather than usefulness is the core determinant of what gets written.
lightandlight 13d ago
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randomblock1 13d ago

The writer is the CEO of... whatever this is: https://auraspark.com/ https://auraspark.com/ Completely slopped up website, zero human touch. I would even go so far as to call them a hyprocrite, for getting AI to do all that for them instead of, you guessed it, training a junior engineer to do it.

Darkeduck 10d ago

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