I was in a meeting recently where someone couldnt stick around longer (which is a FINE AND NORMAL limitation as a TEMPORAL BEING), and left a surveillance LLM in the call so that it could "summarize it for them later." It's been more than a week, and I haven't gotten close to the bottom of how depressing the entire universe of that idea is. It immediately made me have no interest in interacting with them ever again.

I am more than happy to write down what I'm working on, and in fact view that as a basic responsibility of doing that work. I was actually presenting directly from the public documentation of the project because I believe I should only use the information that is available to everyone when talking about that thing. If you care about me or what I do you would look at the enormous surface of explanation I really do expose about it.

Turning on a surveillance device to summarize what I said as if it was a replacement for all the work I have done to make that information available to you is an unimaginably rude thing to even think of doing. To not even acknowledge how cringe being a servant of "productivity hacking" infocapital is just totally beyond me as someone whose public presentation is already highly cringe.

People are always like "you could have written less about this" and I never know what to do with that criticism. Like you also could have Ctrl+f'd more if you got bored idk

But my response when someone wants to leave an LLM running in a meeting is now and henceforth "go fuck yourself"

No I dont want to be misquoted by your broken ass excuse for not knowing how to budget your time, and no I don't want to be complicit in your ruse of technical competence that you use to pretend your time is more valuable than other people's.

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