Translation and interpreting by an openly curmudgeon carbon-based professional
Someone actually wrote this in a public post on the LinkedIn social media platform (and it is a social media platform):
And now, I feel like NOT using AI to help you edit, tighten ‘grafs or offer a reality check is sort of like using a typewriter when everyone else is using a Word Processor or Word Perfect or MS Word.
Asking AI to do a reality check? This is a breathtakingly dumb thing to say in an attempt to demonstrate that the author is “embracing” the technology.
Give a prompt to ChatGPTx as follows:
“Write 300 words about [insert name of a well-known person, a totally unknown person, or even a fictitious person, a movie, a historical event, or just about anything that has something to do with—or nothing to do with—you or the social media platform you’re on].”
Countless variations are possible and are recommended for best effect.
The requested “content” will be generated immediately, and you can copy-and-paste it into an anonymous or pseudonymous social media account to attract engagement, which could be hundreds of comments, or even thousands if the post includes politically controversial content. An important element to include in each of your posts is either a photo you steal (no need to ask permission for republishing—remember you’re anonymous and not going to be held accountable) or an AI-generated image.
This works on most social media platforms, which essentially guarantee that you can remain anonymous and unaccountable. These days, although truly anonymous accounts might seem difficult on LinkedIn, many people have overcome this problem, and even LinkedIn is demonstrating itself to be as good a place as any to drop your slop.
After a while, when the account has accumulated enough engagement on numerous such slop posts, you can sell the account for repurposing by someone else, but that won’t be obvious to subsequent visitors, because the account will remain anonymous or pseudonymous after the sale as well. I have seen ads for places willing to purchase or rent your LinkedIn account, provided it has a record of high engagement levels.
Alternatively, you can keep the account and hope that people will click on your other social media links. You can include a fake physical address without a problem, with confidence that nobody is going to show up there and find out it doesn’t exist. It doesn’t matter. In fact, nothing matters in this business model, which is precisely its charm.
And you can make as many of these anonymous accounts as you want, with each posting countless meaningless buckets of AI slop every day.
What the fuck wrong with people? And I’m also—particularly, in fact—including those people who, because of their stupidity and credulity, actually engage with this AI-generated garbage, often created by wretches who have nothing to offer other than endless demonstrations that, well, they have nothing to offer.
Again, what is wrong with people? Lots of things, it seems, and that’s on both sides of the ocean of AI slop that has flooded the online places some people think are real and have come to rely on, often as a replacement for real-world interaction with other members of their species. These people need to get out more.
A Google search alert on 日英翻訳 (Japanese-to-English translation) results in hits on some websites that actually discuss or mention JA-EN translation, but the search results also include an annoying sprinkling of porn sites that have successfully gamed the Google search engine (making it think they are about other things, JA-EN translation in this case) and ads for translation schools aimed at native Japanese speakers.
Accordingly, I have simply killed that search alert. It was quickly becoming useless, as much of the Internet is turning out to be, with the enshittification of cyberspace progessing unchecked.