Here's a thought experiment. Imagine a stamp mark with the words "Made with #AI" on it. If you see this mark on a picture, illustration, mobile app, song, movie, or story - do you get the notion that this product is of higher, lower or unchanged quality? If you see two identical products for the same price, where one has an AI mark and the other doesn't - which one would you buy? (Please retoot this #LLM #poll for wider reach)

Here's a thought experiment. Imagine a stamp mark with the words "Made with #AI" on it. If you see this mark on a picture, illustration, mobile app, song, movie, or story - do you get the notion that this product is of higher, lower or unchanged quality? If you see two identical products for the

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Salve J. Nilsen @sjn@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Got some reflective stickers delivered. Where should these go? 🤔

#Norsktut #Oslo #slop #ai #aislop

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Salve J. Nilsen @sjn@chaos.social

· 7mo ago

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@gisgeek@floss.social I think that strictly within the software development field, you may have a point - under the right circumstances. Sadly, these tools aren't _only_ used for supporting highly skilled software developers. Just take a look at your profile photo - clearly generated! What do you think this tells people about yourself? This is what I'm asking in the poll: Does the next person seeing that image associate it with a positive, negative, or no change in quality? Makes you think, no?

Salve J. Nilsen @sjn@chaos.social

· 7mo ago

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@gisgeek@floss.social I get your analogies, though I'm afraid they might be failing you. The #LLM tools today aren't like CGI or digital art or the introduction of television. Your examples are are tools of the hand and of trade and media. #AI tools are tools of the mind. They aren't just a support for thinking, but increasingly a _replacement_ for thinking, and this includes all the consequences that come from this. We regulated the use of tools to avoid the bad behavior. Maybe do the same with AI?

Salve J. Nilsen @sjn@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

I was just made aware of @andrewnez@mastodon.social's hilarious #satire, `CHANGELOG.md`: https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/16/changelog.html

Or was this a set of instructions? I don't know. Probably also relevant for @bagder@mastodon.social's post about #AI #security reports: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/04/22/high-quality-chaos/

Oh, what times we live in!

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Salve J. Nilsen @sjn@chaos.social

· 7mo ago

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@gisgeek@floss.social My avatar image was drawn by an illustrator on a commission. I don't have the skills to draw. 😅 (That reminds me, I really should reach out to them to commission an update) Though my question wasn't about your intention with the image, but rather what the audience/reader associates with it, when seeing it. I think that their thoughts matter, though of course this doesn't have to mean their thoughts matter _to you_. (And that's fine, really. You do you! 😸)

Salve J. Nilsen @sjn@chaos.social

· 4mo ago

https://github.com/thesysdev/openui/pull/517

As #AI fueled rewrites go, this one is an _excellent_ example to learn from! 😆

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Salve J. Nilsen @sjn@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

#AI is making CEOs delusional. (And product managers. And developers. And...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6nem-F8AG8

Salve J. Nilsen @sjn@chaos.social

· 2mo ago

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@cpansec/116925964667357090 I'm super happy to be part of this! 😁

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Salve J. Nilsen @sjn@chaos.social

· 7mo ago

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@gisgeek@floss.social I think polls like these are useful for identifying where it would make sense to introduce a "Drivers license for #AI". Clearly, this tool is being used to hurt people today – in too many ways to list here. Does the few positive/constructive use cases weigh up against the damage that is done by #LLM tools today? Clearly not. And this is important because we don't live on our separate software/tech bubbles. We live in a society, together with everyone else.

Salve J. Nilsen @sjn@chaos.social

· 19mo ago

Yay! The #CPAN #Security Group (CPANSec) was just acknowledged as a CVE Numbering Authority!

This means that from now on, this group will be responsible for registering and managing #CVE's on behalf of the #Perl and #CPAN ecosystems and communities.

Read the announcements here: https://security.metacpan.org/2025/02/25/cpansec-is-cna-for-perl-and-cpan.html

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Salve J. Nilsen @sjn@chaos.social

· 7mo ago

Wherever #WinterOlympics are held, #Norway plays with home field advantage.

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Well played.

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Salve J. Nilsen @sjn@chaos.social

· 7mo ago

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@gisgeek@floss.social The impact of #AI on society isn't actually such a large topic. We can easily cut right through the rhetoric and complexities, and ask one simple question: Does using #AI help us create a society that is better for all of us? Those who say yes tend to be of the techno-optimist type, always hoping, looking forward, maybe a bit naïve? Those who say no tend to be the realist type, looking at what happens today and shaking their head in dissent. Those who are deep experts, shout #NoAI!

Salve J. Nilsen @sjn@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

RE: @thephpf@phpc.social

Er det noen miljø (annet enn kanskje @attacnorge@snabelen.no) som har tenkt på det samme i Norge?

#politikk #norge #opensource #policy

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Salve J. Nilsen @sjn@chaos.social

· 39mo ago

The #Perl and #RakuLang #Conference in #Toronto has started, and videos are already tricking down to their YouTube channel.

Looking forward to following great #OpenSource talks all the way from #Canada! 😁

@YAPCNA@www.youtube.com

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Salve J. Nilsen @sjn@chaos.social

· 7mo ago

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@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu @gisgeek@floss.social Yeah. It's kinda funny too, actually. How long will it take (and how expensive will it become) before the "Vibers" out there find out software development isn't as easy as they imagined? 😃 🍿

Salve J. Nilsen @sjn@chaos.social

· 7mo ago

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@gisgeek@floss.social what do you mean with "be more coherent"?

Salve J. Nilsen @sjn@chaos.social

· 45mo ago

The #Perl Toolchain Summit is back!

Philippe Bruhat (BooK) brings the event back to Lyon at the end of April 2023.

If you care about #Perl, #CPAN, and any shared infrastructure or code related to building, testing, deploying and such, then #PTS is one of the best #OpenSource events to join.

It's invite-only though, and to get invited, show your work! Every PTS the organizers look for new people to join, in addition to the core. 😉

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Salve J. Nilsen @sjn@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org ITYM? $ date -d '2026-04-21 15:00 UTC' $ date -d '2026-04-28 23:00 UTC'

Salve J. Nilsen @sjn@chaos.social

· 7mo ago

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@gisgeek@floss.social Yeah, nothing's perfect, and expecting something to be so is just as naïve as huffing hopium while waiting for someone else to decide how our future turns out. We get to ask the questions, say what is desirable and what is not, and use our influence to help steer our society in a positive direction, through political engagement, lawmaking, public discourse and consensus-building. Yes, this isn't black/white, but simple polls can help us see if _this_ shade of grey is dark or light.

Salve J. Nilsen @sjn@chaos.social

· 16mo ago

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@ottobackwards@hachyderm.io @siracusa@mastodon.social #toolblamer 😆