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"Social permission" is one term for it.
Most people don't realize this is happening until it hits their electric bills. Microslop isn't permitted to steal from us. They're just literal thieves and it takes time for the law to catch up.
Always have been.
(But now it's worse because it's the entire public, not just their competitors)
They aren't Microsoft anymore, they're full on Microslop.
you will enjoy your chatbot that confidently tells lies while electricity bill goes up by 50% and the nearby datacentres try to make the next model not use em-dashes
As a long-time user of the em-dash I'm pissed off that my usual writing style now makes people think I used AI. I have to second-guess my own punctuation and paraphrase.
We suffer together! At least my semicolon is still safe.
I don't use LLMs for anything creative for the express purpose of avoiding generic tone, haha.
Yeah. I just wouldn't feel comfortable putting my name to a slice of that dreary blandness.