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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 day ago (4 children)

A co-worker recently asked which AI I used to make some drawings in a presentation. I made them all by hand in Inkscape, so I'm not sure if I should feel good or bad about the question.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 37 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It’s just awful these days. I was presenting the other day with some co-workers. One made a nice looking edit to a slide, but had some typos. I asked for the original since the slide was just a rendered image. The response I got was the prompt they used to generate the slide in copilot “give me an engaging slide using this information…”

I re-drew the damn thing in like 5 minutes myself, but jebus, this is what counts as work these days?

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 day ago

I've watched my niece and nephews do their homework and since it's all done online, they literally copypaste the question into chatgpt, then copypaste the answer.

This is what happens when you ditch pen and paper (there have also been studies showing that handwriting activates different parts of the brain that increases memory retention or something like that, too lazy to look it up). Anyway, we can look forward to gen alpha coworkers not knowing how to do anything if this is how they do their homework.

[–] ivan@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m lucky to have colleagues that understand that doing things with AI, that are supposed to reach some audience, will feel low effort to said audience. Like, if I’m tryna sell someone my shit I better not half-ass advertising. Not to mention broken telephone game of me explaining stuff to AI for AI to explain it to potential clientele.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

I’m in a relatively high up position, so the audience was the C level types. I find they tend to prefer the AI type responses, mine tend to be a bit information dense.

So, my workflow now is to draft, put it through AI then re-edit to remove the typical AI hallmarks.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You should’ve kept the original slide and made sure to give them credit when presenting it: “and before we go to the next slide, I wanted to give a huge thank you to so-and-so for their contribution to this presentation!” *everybody claps*

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It was someone in a higher position than I, and I’m 4 months in to the role. So…

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

My coworkers asked me to make a poster with AI, I made it with LibreOffice Draw instead.

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

I'd have flipped tables.