Linux @lemmy.ml petsoi @discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago

Merry Christmas, Linux Community!

Dear Linux community,

In these unpredictable and often challenging times, I feel it’s more important than ever to pause and share heartfelt wishes. Merry Christmas to each and every one of you!

Let this holiday season be a moment of peace, where you can step back, breathe, and find some calm amidst the chaos. Take the opportunity to reconnect, reflect, and perhaps even find inspiration for the year ahead.

May your days be filled with joy, your systems stay secure, and your kernels remain stable. Here's to a festive season full of positivity and open-source spirit!

Warm wishes,

Your fellow penguin at heart.

P.S.: I had very little time, so the whole thing, was AI accelerated! Please forgive me :-)

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OP, please don’t post any more AI slop so I don’t get flooded with reports from users.
I was having a much better Christmas before I saw this AI slop on my feed.
AI slop, reported.
Ai slop
Your AI acceleration makes the whole thing a lot less genuine.
- yawn. So long as he used a local FOSS model there's nothing wrong with AI.
  
  It being proprietary isnt in the top 5 of the list of my problems with AI
  
  edit: Please be nice to each other! :(
  
  Lots of downvotes in this reply chain. Not to be a "I don't wanna be either side" kinda guy but AI isn't all bad and isn't all good either. (Greys!)
  
  Merry Christmasing should be a genuine hug. Even if this was made by a homegrown open-weight open-dataset inference model, it's nearly 100% low-effort generated -- holidays need the human aspect, no? Covering yourself up too much in AI takes away from the humanness with corporate diction, and people need evidence of risktaking genuineness nowadays.
  
  On the other hand, AI is definitely useful... but elsewhere. It's not strictly anti-human even if conglomerates are using it that way, which I think you agree on. Wading through HOA using local NLP setups is human. Looking through a Mandarin thread when typical translation sucks, is human.
  
  But there are domains for its use and there is ethical stuff to work on. This post just doesn't fit the domain too well, as others agree...
  
  The idea that AI is fine is anti-human
You could have not using ai slop to illustrate your post.
- Could they? What if they don't have the skills to draw it themselves?
  
  Adding an image to your post is not mandatory.
  
  There's something called a "stock image" and "editing tux onto the stock image"
  
  A text post without a picture would achieve the same result just fine, without stealing work from artists and regurgitating it into a soulless, artifact-ridden and generally ugly picture.
  
  a mspaint black and white trackpad drawing would be better than this shit
  
  It’s just a sign of carelessness, a shitty drawing would mean more as OP would have put effort into it and willingness to learn a skill. And it’s not just the drawing, the text is AI as well, so OP just wants some free internet points with as little effort
  
  I'd have taken a crayon drawing instead.
  
  good thing that you can learn skills.
  
  I disagree with this sentiment; I'm inclined to believe that AI has actually lowered the bar for meaning.
  
  Before AI, typically only skilled artists drew pictures for the web. But now that AI is making art that's less meaningful than crayon pictures, there's the growing sentiment of
  
  I'd rather see a crayon picture than AI slop.
  
  which could actually mean more people have the ability to go on and artify.
  
  Of course this is anecdotal; it's the reason I started drawing again :)
  
  So because they don’t have the skills they should steal and claim it as their own?
Finally AI slop. Linux is now a fully grown corpo and therefore the year of Linux desktop is here
- TempleOS is the only OS corpos won't touch, It's protected by a holy shield!
  
  King Terry the Terrible is watching everyone that uses TempleOS and will execute anyone who misuses it with an A10 gun, the fist of God.
- In these corporate times we can stay free, share the code, and help our neighbors. Together we can share the joyous spirit of friendship, hacking, and arguing endlessly over which distro is best. In conclusion, Linux provides us with many good things, and should be celebrated.
Nothing says "Linux" more than paying a megacorp to steal the hard work of artists...
So, the art is obviously AI slop, but is the post body also AI? Because it reads really weird.
- The very generic message makes me inclined to think so too
I don't know why everyone is saying it reads weird or its AI slop. To me it seemed pretty normal while reading, but I guess I'm so used to everything being written by AI nowadays I didn't notice at first. How do you all spot it usually?
- AI structure can be pretty obvious if you know which English weapons it loves to spam. Let's walk it through (sorry for the wall of text lmfao):
  
  I skip the image because the chimney mistake and overdone shading is obvious
  
  Corporate style.
  
  "In these unpredictable and often challenging times" -- This is very corporate. How many messages have you seen like this during the pandemic? Buuut just because it's soulless doesn't mean it's AI, but I wouldn't expect it from a community of this archetype. (ai suspicion +1)
  
  Tricolons, especially ascending. (source)
  
  This is something ChatGPT loves. Essentially, there are three "things" in a sentence, sometimes clauses. Sometimes each one is larger than the last (ascending), e.g. "I honed my skills in research, collaboration, and problem-solving." And it appears a lot even in this short snippet
  
  "...you can step back, breathe, and find some calm amidst the chaos". The third element is longer. Ascension spotted. (ai suspicion +2)
  
  "May your days be filled with joy, your systems stay secure, and your kernels remain stable." Elements are successively syllabically longer. Ascension spotted. (ai suspicion +2)
  
  "Take the opportunity to reconnect, reflect, and perhaps even find inspiration for the year ahead." Third element is longer. Ascension spotted. How funny -- three tricolons! Three three three three (ai suspicion +2)
  
  Obsession with superficial positivity.
  
  ChatGPT, even when making stories about evil, is very partial to love, friendship, joy, making up, peace, tranquility, (pseudo) "unconventional" friendship. Excessive meaningless positivity is an archetype too, though ChatGPT's factgivings are usually neutral-positive.
  
  "more important than ever to pause and share heartfelt wishes" Share wishes. Would a human on c/linux say something like that without elaborating further about wishing for something, perhaps death to Windows users? (ai suspicion +1)
  
  "moment of peace" "find some calm" "positivity" "open-source spirit" but they never talk deeper, again. (ai suspicion +1)
  
  So yeah this is at least 90% OpenAI. Too fuckin' bad.
  
  I will have to stop manually typing ascending tricons. LOL. I have used them often in correspondence and documents. It was a technique taught in English class.
  
  That was really helpful. Do you have any more tips on spotting ai generated text?
  
  Saved, thanks
- Text may not be AI, image definitely is. Usually everything in AI images glows slightly, like here. And the placement of Tux in the sky has no rhyme or reason.
  
  Also, what's that L logo in a circle?
It's chrism
Nice idea but yeah, Ai stuff is a bit tacky. :)
merry Christmas friends ❤️🎄
Thank you!
Reminds me of "Ahh bro I'm offended by christmas its evil, take the santa cap off vlc"

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