[cwal37]

LinkedIn is also a great example of this stuff at the moment. Every day I see posts where someone clearly took a slide or a diagram from somewhere, then had ChatGPT "make it better" and write text for them to post along with it. Words get mangled, charts no longer make sense, but these people clearly aren't reading anything they're posting.

It's not like LinkedIn was great before, but the business-influencer incentives there seem to have really juiced nonsense content that all feels gratingly similar. Probably doesn't help that I work in energy which in this moment has attracted a tremendous number of hangers-on looking for a hit from the data center money funnel.

[marginalia_nu]

Yeah I've been collecting some of the weirdest ones I've seen floating by. It's really the only thing that has me visiting linkedin.

https://www.marginalia.nu/junk/linked/games.jpeg

https://www.marginalia.nu/junk/linked/json.png

https://www.marginalia.nu/junk/linked/syntax.png

(and before anyone tells me to charge my phone, I have one of those construction worker phones with 2 weeks battery. 14% is like good for a couple of days)

[gzread]

The red apple streams one is good. It shows how developers chase shiny new stuff with no respect for fundamentals. They will say it's less code, and then show you more code.

[g947o]

Care to explain the last one? The presentation is weird and stupid, but I don't see any obvious (technical) issue other than the missing bracket on the left, unlike the first two

[girvo]

Those are so funny that I was forgetting to breathe as I was laughing so hard, man that's excellent haha. Thanks for sharing them, even if we are cooked as a society...

[epiccoleman]

Minecraft JAVA --------> C++

that one gave me an actual lol.

[ChristianJacobs]

LinkedIn is a masquerade ball dressed up as a business oriented forum. Nobody is showing their true selves, everyone is either grinding at their latest unicorn potential with their LLM BFF or posting a "thoughtful" story that is 100% totally real about a life changing event that somehow turns into a sales pitch at the end...

[wiseowise]

LinkedIn is a fucking asylum populate by the most unhinged “people” and bots. I don’t know a single serious technical person active on LinkedIn.

[ozim]

There are people who write genuinely interesting stuff there as well.

I use block option there quite a lot. That cleans up my experience rather well.

[close04]

> LinkedIn is a masquerade ball dressed up as a business oriented forum. Nobody is showing their true selves

That's the main trait of almost all social media. A parade of falsity, putting on the show for everyone else, being what you wish you were and what everyone else dreams of being or envies.

LinkedIn is about boasting and boosting the professional life, other social media is for the personal life. More or less equally fake.

[benhurmarcel]

> these people clearly aren't reading anything they're posting

I'm surprised they are able to care so little. Somebody actually published this and didn't care enough to even skim through it.

[varjag]

Of course they aren't. The text to go with those diagrams is also machine generated.

[layer8]

The comment you’re replying to already stated that.

[kshri24]

Yep! Quit LinkedIn when it went downhill. Has only gotten worse since then. Most social media is filled with AI slop. For someone who grew up in the 90s-2000s BBS/IRC era this sucks!

[Andrex]

LinkedIn and GitHub, hmm. Wonder if there's a common thread...

[tveita]

And LinkedIn is Microsoft as well...

IMO Microsoft is right at the nexus of opportunity for solving some of the the large _problems_ that AI introduces.

Employers and job seekers both need a way to verify that they are talking to real identified people that are willing to put in some effort beyond spamming AI or wasting your time on AI run filters. LinkedIn could help them.

Programmers need access to real human-verified code and projects they can trust, not low-effort slop that could be backdoored at any moment by people with unclear motives and provenance. Github could help.

etc. etc. for Office, Outlook ...

But instead they've decided to ride the slop waves, throw QA to the wind, and call every bird and stone "copilot".

[sshagent]

totally. I'm really getting behind the slight replacement of TL;DR to AI;DR If you can't be bothered to read your own AI slop, then I'm not reading it either.