With a whole bunch of folks leaving MS Word and similar as of late, seems like the right time to post this again, but I put together a little resource to help explain *why* it's so important to ditch Word and similar.
[edit: I'm aware of some readability issues on some systems, and am working to fix. See note below.]
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Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ • • •I even have my e-mail signature set to remind people to be careful before opening things in Word; after all, it can be really easy to accidentally betray trust by opening a draft.
(If "consider before printing this e-mail" is a thing, avoiding carbon-chugging LLMs has to be at *least* as important.)
Funambolo
in reply to Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ • • •young man yells at the cloud
in reply to Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ • • •young man yells at the cloud
in reply to Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ • • •Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ • •young man yells at the cloud likes this.
young man yells at the cloud
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to young man yells at the cloud • •*sigh*
This is more true than I care to admit.
young man yells at the cloud
in reply to Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ • • •Constructive:
I think the article is perhaps a bit verbose and long-winded to win over a lot of laypeople / disinterested office workers. Adding a "tl;dr: opening documents in Word/GDocs automatically uploads the contents for AI training without the author's consent. Consider alternatives like LibreOffice" might help.
Also, you used the term "LLM" before you use the term "large language model", and the target audience probably doesn't already know what LLM stands for. Same with GAN.
Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ • • •Thanks to everyone who's pointed out that the page is very difficult to read on some systems; I have not had that happen on any of the laptops and/or phones that I have access to, so I wasn't able to notice that earlier, and I apologize for the accessibility issues that creates.
I'm not, unfortunately, a professional webdev, and have found it a little challenging to make a plain HTML page that works everywhere.
Someone in DMs very kindly suggested a fix, and I'll look at applying that ASAP.
Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ • • •I *think* it should be fixed? On my laptop and phone, it looks identical to how it used to, but it now doesn't fix the zoom level in CSS, such that hopefully it should work well in more browsers and on more devices.
Thanks again to everyone who let me know about the problem, and for the kind person who suggested a fix in DMs.
Christian Tietze
in reply to Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ • • •Nice, will share!
PS: The link to your name in the footer is broken.