It seems to me to be the mental activity version of this:

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Jan Wildeboer 😷

2026-10-12 14:48:24

@hszakher @david @the_wub Mostly it is based on "nah, cheap is good enough" is my gut feeling.

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This is why I am no longer sending any pictures of my offspring to anyone, not even family.

I do not know what AI agents are enabled on their devices and I do not know which LLM based service the recipient might feed the images of my offspring into.

It doesn't matter if it is done deliberately or if it is done inadvertently.

"Apologize", I.e., I'm sorry, I should have made it clear that I was looking for thoughtful feedback from a human I respect, not a bunch of words that approximate human language emitted by an algorithm that I do not respect at all.

Also, spend as little time and thought on it as you can spare, because that's what your colleague offered you.

I have had this happen a few times.

It remains profoundly disappointing; especially from people whose work I have learned from and value.

How can they value their own work so little?

And now I cannot trust what they might write in the future (at least not unless they apologize and stop using the slop machines).

I really appreciate all the great advice and suggestions. I'm just... so disappointed and know I have to approach all my interactions with this person differently in the future. I've written up a long email, but I'm realizing that won't work as well as having a conversation with the person. Especially because I'm likely to start crying during the conversation. So. That's going to be FUN.

But maybe it will help one person be less addicted to the forest-burning plagiarism machine? Maybe?

Here's how my communications have "evolved"

People instruct claude code to write or simply clean-up 20 pages of code. The developer has claude code write a "PR", which basically says, "here's what all these changes do and why I did them". And it's like 20 pages long.

So what do I do? I have started literally pasting their fucking PRs into Claude and saying, "Find the flaws in this PR and write a denial with 10 pages of detail for them to respond to"

And.... I'm sure they have AI respond to that..... etc..etc..etc....

It's the automated level of , "As per my previous email...."

🫤 I don't understand why people can't at least understand "if I wanted the LLM's analysis, I could have prompted it myself". Do they think they're doing you a favour by burning their tokens instead?

Of course, what I'd really want is for them to understand why "I didn't have time or interest to read your document, but I wanted to make sure that you had a long response to read" is such an insult to a colleague.

@irene God that is incredibly rude. Holy cow.

But that’s how I’d approach it: someone just did the equivalent of a door-slam-in-face-and-lock-the-door level rudeness.

unsolicited suggestion so ignore as approp

but I'd focus on the personal betrayal rather than the larger ethical and geopolitical issues. This is someone you've trusted and relied on and asked for help. And they didn't respect that request and instead delegated it to a machine. You could have used the chat bot too but you thought your (formerly) trusted colleague would give you some personal help. And they didn't respect that request.

This makes it personal for them too.

I recently had a bad interaction of this sort and laid it out kinda like "hey it wasn't respectful of what we were doing or what was going on for this tool to be used in the way you did and I would appreciate it if you did not do that with me in the future" and it went well.

Will have to see over time if it has any long-term effects.

Good luck navigating!

I find it so incomprehensible when people do this. If you'd wanted to ask an LLM, you could have done that yourself. It's like asking a colleague a question and getting back a response that's just a link to a Google search or a Wikipedia article (and nothing else). It seems like the implications are insulting, but it's probably more likely just thoughtless.

I have colleagues that have started doing similar things, and I also am struggling to find tactful ways to point out that it's unwelcome. Because it's so obviously foolish, it's hard to think of a way to point it out that doesn't seem insulting.

Erf.

Apart from all the planet-destroying stochastic parrot problem (which is real and VERY problematic), you asked for comments and they couldn't bother.

That's unprofessionnal and deeply disrespectful.

I'm so sorry.

I have similar issues with people submitting items to my print shop for reproduction with an AI slop abomination of our corporate logo, and they get mad coz I won’t print it. “It looks good enough!”

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i would be shocked if your department had on retainer an IP lawyer, but if they do, give them the heads up that you will be referring the colleague to them for a TL;DR on how that’s an infringement on your team’s copyright and that they will be liable for any plagiarism that results from it.

which, of course, means that now y’all need to create a boilerplate for all emails and comminications about reserving all rights and not giving permission for LLM imput etc

@sundogplanets

Just be honest with them. Say something like “I asked you for YOUR personal opinion and critique, not a llm. If I really wanted this response I could have done it myself (but there are multiple reasons why I WILL NOT). Do you not have the time or respect for me and my work or myself to not read what I wrote and respond with your own words and feedback?”

Sorry, I couldn’t help but make unnecessary suggestions 😹.
I’m also too blunt with people when they cross me.

: my own answer:

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Or, more gentle: "If I wanted the advice of ChatGPT, why would I ask you?"

I means, even if ChatGPT was ethical, it makes no sense. It is even very rude! They give your text to ChatGPT without your consent and acknowledge that they don’t want to give you some of their time.

“I asked for your opinion, not a bot’s”

Difficult situation. Good luck