BF3s Book Club

2026-04-28 18:06:09

#3701

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,102|7503|PNW

SuperJail Warden wrote:
I am now reading "How to Win Friends and influence people."

the wording of that title has always bothered me. "win friends." i feel like there's a line down a graph of less offensive ways to put that. the first step down in deescalation is "earn friends."

if the book was called "How to Make Friends," it would be in the children's section.

how many copies of this book were bought as well-meaning (if insulting) gifts, never to be opened by their recipients.

how to buy friends and blackmail pepole

chicken soup for the corporate soul

2026-04-28 18:38:52

#3702

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +3,007|7364|949

"How to be a sociopath"

2026-04-28 23:21:37

#3703

uziq: Member; +566|4184

unnamednewbie13 wrote:
starting to see slop, slop-informed, or at least slop-coded stuff crop up more frequently in ebooks. it's probably not too early to mourn the loss of unpolluted content. again, of course, can't even escape the stuff when i shut everything down and go out. like imagine a giant dogshit meteor impacting the same location that wiped out the dinosaurs. that's ai today.

privately, i cheer when i hear about ai doing something like erasing an entire company's database.

hopefully, various slop-free curation sees spikes in users and interest.

the only thing holding back the slop-apocalypse in publishing is that the AI models are too expensive for the threadbare publishing industry.

and you can thank bolshy artists and idealistic young editors for pushing back on all the flagrant copyright theft and unethical conduct by the major AI companies.

for now, AI is officially disallowed in the writing of academic research. as well it might. but the c-suite and project managers angling for their next annual bonus would love nothing more than to insert AI into every fucking step of the publication process.

2026-04-28 23:21:38

#3704

uziq: Member; +566|4184

unnamednewbie13 wrote:
starting to see slop, slop-informed, or at least slop-coded stuff crop up more frequently in ebooks. it's probably not too early to mourn the loss of unpolluted content. again, of course, can't even escape the stuff when i shut everything down and go out. like imagine a giant dogshit meteor impacting the same location that wiped out the dinosaurs. that's ai today.

privately, i cheer when i hear about ai doing something like erasing an entire company's database.

hopefully, various slop-free curation sees spikes in users and interest.

the only thing holding back the slop-apocalypse in publishing is that the AI models are too expensive for the threadbare publishing industry.

and you can thank bolshy artists and idealistic young editors for pushing back on all the flagrant copyright theft and unethical conduct by the major AI companies.

for now, AI is officially disallowed in the writing of academic research. as well it might. but the c-suite and project managers angling for their next annual bonus would love nothing more than to insert AI into every fucking step of the publication process.

2026-04-29 02:31:55

#3705

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,102|7503|PNW

i've talked about it before, but slop needs to be flagged and tagged on anything with slop in any part of the creation process, like we're printing precautionary labels for food products and cross-contaminants.

"processed in a facility that uses claude."

some jerk posts some slop and gets a positive review, "thank you for your kind comments." biggest ai-generated eyeroll to that. it's my opinion that you look like less of a clown if you just come out and say it's ai if you used ai. again, art sites alone had this solved in the 2000s just by people opting submissions into traditional or digital. it's not that fucking complex, but every dipshit on all levels of everything is trying to slip it under the radar and now we all have to process everything like

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/418/775/f5d.jpeg

2026-04-29 02:39:52

#3706

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,848|6838|eXtreme to the maX

We need something new to delineate it, like italic but not italic.

Fuck Israel

2026-04-29 02:52:33

#3707

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,102|7503|PNW

anything written with ai should be forced by its metadata to be displayed in papyrus. the whole document.

imagine if you lie and say you didn't slop when you actually slopped, your slop blows up and nobody wants to hurt your feelings by calling it slop, and decades later you're hunted down and exposed like you spent your whole career falsifying your donkey kong scores.

2026-04-29 03:07:52

#3708

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,848|6838|eXtreme to the maX

Come to think of it, wasn't everything italic before it went square? We need a new square text.

Not long before there's so much slop its impossible to know what is and what isn't

"It was the worst of times, and it was the worst of times" yeah that sounds like the original, pretty sure.

Fuck Israel

2026-04-29 04:20:24

#3709

uziq: Member; +566|4184

the small blessing with the kulcha industries is that there will always be a leisure class, monied minority who are prepared to pay a 'fair' price for a bespoke product. high-level publishing isn't going anywhere so long as authors want to be edited by editors with actual expertise and so long as there's a discriminating book-reading public who don't want to sift through solar masses of auto-generated, meaningless, solipsistic, invent-an-adventure-story-just-for-you slop.

bad news is that now Claude can do CAD as well as aspects of visual design. will the same dynamic hold in your industry? who is going to pay for bespoke hand-CAD'ed widgets?

2026-04-29 04:31:20

#3710

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,848|6838|eXtreme to the maX

uziq wrote:
so long as there's a discriminating book-reading public who don't want to sift through solar masses of auto-generated, meaningless, solipsistic, invent-an-adventure-story-just-for-you slop.

But what about the rest of us? Wilbur Smith is dead now, we need AI.

bad news is that now Claude can do CAD as well as aspects of visual design. will the same dynamic hold in your industry? who is going to pay for bespoke hand-CAD'ed widgets?

Did you know that most engineers don't actually do CAD?
Engineering is still mostly going OK.
https://www.australiawide.com.au/blog/e … april-2026

And there are many areas of engineering which are quite nebulous, such as walking onto a production line and getting the people and things running, and walking onto a job site and not having a spanner dropped on you.

Fuck Israel

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