#AI Writing Enhancement

[cyle]

still confused how to make any of these LLMs useful to me.

while my daughter was napping, i downloaded lm studio and got a dozen of the most popular open source LLMs running on my PC, and they work great with very low latency, but i can't come up with anything to do with them but make boring toy scripts to do stupid shit.

as a test, i fed deepseek r1, llama 3.2, and mistral-small a big spreadsheet of data we've been collecting about my newborn daughter (all of this locally, not transmitting anything off my computer, because i don't want anybody with that data except, y'know, doctors) to see how it compared with several real doctors' advice and prognoses. all of the LLMs suggestions were between generically correct and hilariously wrong. alarmingly wrong in some cases, but usually ending with the suggestion to "consult a medical professional" -- yeah, duh. pretty much no better than old school unreliable WebMD.

then i tried doing some prompt engineering to punch up some of my writing, and everything ended up sounding like it was written by an LLM. i don't get why anybody wants this. i can tell that LLM feel, and i think a lot of people can now, given the horrible sales emails i get every day that sound like they were "punched up" by an LLM. it's got a stink to it. maybe we'll all get used to it; i bet most non-tech people have no clue.

i may write a small script to try to tag some of my blogs' posts for me, because i'm really bad at doing so, but i have very little faith in the open source vision LLMs' ability to classify images. it'll probably not work how i hope. that still feels like something you gotta pay for to get good results.

all of this keeps making me think of ffmpeg. a super cool, tiny, useful program that is very extensible and great at performing a certain task: transcoding media. it used to be horribly annoying to transcode media, and then ffmpeg came along and made it all stupidly simple overnight, but nobody noticed. there was no industry bubble around it.

LLMs feel like they're competing for a space that ubiquitous and useful that we'll take for granted today like ffmpeg. they just haven't fully grasped and appreciated that smallness yet. there isn't money to be made here.

[venusiinfurss]

hate when someone brings up generative ai at the function and i have to bite my tongue and hide what a crazy bitch i really am

[ts-rua]

I don’t know why, but I want to share with you my guess what emojis each of the main characters would use

Kuras: 🙂😁🥰🤔😌👁🕊🦋🌻🌼

Mhin: 🤨😐😒🙄😳🥺🤬😾🔪

Vere: 🤣🤨😏🤮🥵💋💅🍷⚰

Ais: 🤣😏😈👿💀🤡👍🐙🌶🚬🏴‍☠️

Leander: 😅😊😘☺😋🤗😶😎😕☹🥺

[breadbut3d]

I'm sorry grammarly but the phase "authentic writers" and "Ai" do not belong in the same scentence.

[heroes-fading]

for the love of god stop feeding my dumb fic into LLMs. it'll only make you dumber, and me feel dumber along the way. i do not use LLMs.

[un-pearable]

i think i will actually digitize this map properly if only to see if i’m missing anything but in the meantime. moment of appreciation for the donald drake fenton dynamic. obsessed with drake and fenton knowing completely different legs of the triangle (donald -> paperinik and paperinik -> DD respectively) and particularly how fenton has rationalized the retired superhero -> spy pipeline . VERY excited to see where it goes

OH ALSO THE TIME TRAVEL MENTION. both go WHAT. and then we just move on. incredible

[knikesh]

I want AI to stop imagining, tired of all these AI imagined pictures.

[leidensygdom]

So, Discord has added a feature that lets other people "enhance" or "edit" your images with different AI apps. It looks like this:

Currently, you can't opt out from this at all. But here's few things you can do as a protest.

FOR SERVERS YOU ARE AN ADMIN IN

Go to Roles -> @/everyone roles -> Scroll all the way down to External Apps, and disable it. This won't delete the option, but it will make people receive a private message instead when they use it, protecting your users:

You should also make it a bannable offense to edit other user's images with AI. Here's how I worded it in my server, feel free to copypaste:

Do not modify other people's images with AI under ANY circumstances, such as with the Discord "enhancement" features, amidst others. This is a bannable offense.

COMPLAIN TO DISCORD

There's few ways to go around this. First, you can go to https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/requests/new , select Help and Support -> Feedback/New Feature Request, and write your message, as seen in the screenshot below.

For the message, here's some points you can bring up:

Concerns about harassment (such as people using this feature to bully others)

Concerns about privacy (concerns on how External Apps may break privacy or handle the data in the images, and how it may break some legislations, such as GDPR)

Concerns about how this may impact minors (these features could be used with pictures of irl minors shared in servers, for deeply nefarious purposes)

BE VERY CLEAR about "I will refuse to buy Nitro and will cancel my subscription if this feature remains as it is", since they only care about fucking money

Word them as you'd like, add onto them as you need. They sometimes filter messages that are copypasted templates, so finding ways to word them on your own is helpful.

ADDING: You WILL NEED to reply to the mail you receive afterwards for the message to get sent to an actual human! Otherwise it won't reach anyone

UNSUSCRIBE FROM NITRO

This is what they care about the most. Unsuscribe from Nitro. Tell them why you unsuscribed on the way out. DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY. They're a company. They take actions for profit. If these actions do not get them profit, they will need to backtrack. Mass-unsuscribing from WOTC's DnD beyond forced them to back down with the OGL, this works.

LEAVE A ONE-STAR REVIEW ON THE APP

This impacts their visibility on the App store. Write why are you leaving the one-star review too.

_

Regardless of your stance on AI, I think we can agree that having no way for users to opt out of these pictures is deeply concerning, specially when Discord is often used to share selfies. It's also a good time to remember internet privacy and safety- Maybe don't post your photos in big open public servers, if you don't want to risk people doing edits or modifications of them with AI (or any other way). Once it's posted, it's out of your control.

Anyways, please reblog for visibility- This is a deeply concerning topic!

[pauljonessoftware]

My AI Pair Programmer Works as Hard as I Do

How I Rediscovered My Love for Building With Help From an Invisible Teammate When I first started programming, it was exciting—creative, even intoxicating. I came from a background in electronics engineering, and code felt like this unlimited sandbox where I could invent anything. I dove in enthusiastically, thinking I’d found the perfect side hustle or creative outlet. But then something…

[ronaldtateblog]

Elevate Your Content with AI-Assisted Creation

As a marketer, I’ve seen firsthand how AI-assisted content creation is revolutionizing the way we approach content strategies. With the help of AI tools, we can now generate high-quality content at scale, freeing up time to focus on other aspects of our marketing efforts. The statistics are compelling: 51% of marketers are already using AI for content creation, and 80% plan to increase their use…

[talentanywhere]

Discover how AI-enhanced resumes are helping job seekers get 3X more callbacks. Learn how to use AI for resume writing, free optimization tools, and boosting your CV score to stand out in today’s competitive job market. Read the full guide on TalentAnywhere.ai.

[technologyequality]

AI-Powered Email Templates That Write Themselves: Because You Have Better Things to Do

AI-Powered Email Templates That Write Themselves Because You Have Better Things to Do Ah, email, the necessary evil of modern business. If you’re anything like most entrepreneurs, you’ve spent way too much time staring at a blinking cursor, trying to craft the perfect subject line that won’t get ignored faster than a “Hey girl” DM from an old high school acquaintance selling essential oils. We…

[firstoccupier]

Unlock Your Writing Potential with AI Tools

Hey there! We all know how important it is to communicate effectively these days. But let’s face it, many of us struggle when it comes to writing—whether it’s sending out that all-important email, writing a blog post, or just trying to nail our day-to-day messages. Now, with AI tools popping up everywhere, it’s time we take a good look at how they can actually help us out instead of being scared…

[lettersfrombeyondthegrave]

some ppl say that stuff like amazon using ai to give summaries of reviews etc iway better than the generative kind of ai that just takes jobs away from creative people, it's not replacing it's just adding. and like ya ig it's not taking ppl's jobs but personally i feel like needing everything revomited in the shortest paragraphs possible in an age where people are already having low reading comprehension levels it's not a good thing.

one thing is using ai for boring data analysing or smth like that and another is someone spoon feeding you the tiniest infos possible from a fucking wikipedia page. boring, repetitive time consuming work that can be optimized vs baby cant even wead a couple of weviews fow a cat toy they want to buy oh bohoo.

and dont even get me started on the new iphones summarizing texts and writing ones for you.

are the companies just gonna keep adding stuff these things are gonna do so we dont waste time until theres nothing left to do in our day? until the only interesting thing to do is sleep and let ai use you as fuels because these fuckers need energy and we go live in a fake reality where theres no ai, living our boring normal life until some mfers in trenchcoats and sunglasses break the system?

[bobvelsebishot]