<div dir="ltr"><div>A couple of points I forgot to make.</div><div><br></div><div>All this AI stuff reminds me of when clip-art was new. Lots of terrible flyers, notices and such were generated.</div><div><br></div><div>Dianne uses AI graphics in her comedy articles - so a complete hypocrite.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 3, 2026 at 2:07\u202fPM Chris Craig <<a href="mailto:kwlug.org@ciotog.net">kwlug.org@ciotog.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I found Dianne to be unnecessarily rude and abrasive.</div><div><br></div><div>I skimmed through the book, it's really not that bad, nothing particularly illuminating for anyone with some experience. The pictures are AI generated and then edited, but zooming in on the book spines is a bit much. Book spines in drawings have had squiggles and random characters for decades.</div><div><br></div><div>I know an older fellow who heads a local volunteer group, and he uses AI to produce songs about the initiative. I'm sure he means well but they are cringy. He sees it as a way to promote the group in ways he can't do and hasn't had much luck attracting someone else to do. It's just something that people don't recognize is off-putting to some.</div><div><br></div><div>The fake "real use cases" is the thing that I find most questionable. Everything else is pretty mild.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 3, 2026 at 1:04\u202fPM Doug Moen <<a href="mailto:doug@moens.org" target="_blank">doug@moens.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u><div><div>I have the same concerns as Diane and researched the same topics. But I didn't use an "ai detector", I don't trust those.</div><div><br></div><div>If she read the same web page about Andre's trucking experience, that has a photo that matches Andre's photo on the web site, so I don't dispute his photo is real. And there's nothing wrong with having a day job in addition to being a Linux enthusiast.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The books she complains about are bad AI slop, not suitable for reading by humans. There is so much obvious AI slop on the web site that the Linux Association looks like one of those 100% AI hallucinated fake organizations. I don't think it is, I think the people are real, but the vibes are bad, and I think that is a real concern and a reputational risk.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, Aug 3, 2026, at 6:20 AM, Ron wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="m_3052182717200976715m_3673373608150224195qt"><div><span style="font-family:"Tomson Talks"">Paul Nijjar
via kwlug-disc wrote on 2026-05-11 16:17:</span></div><blockquote type="cite"><pre><span style="font-family:"Tomson Talks"">A group called the Linux Association Canada (<a href="http://linuxassociation.ca" target="_blank">linuxassociation.ca</a>,
which does not have much on it yet) is trying to create a network of
free/open source community organizations. They reached out and asked
KWLUG to be a member of it. </span></pre></blockquote><p><span style="font-family:"Tomson Talks"">So, this brief but interesting
conversation happened:</span></p><p><a href="https://thecanadian.social/@linuxassociation/116892622775181904" target="_blank">https://thecanadian.social/@linuxassociation/116892622775181904</a></p><p><br></p><p>A summary of highlights shows careless use of AI slop,
inauthentic "real use cases", unanswered questions about prior
FLOSS involvement.</p><p>This is between Diane from Linux Ottawa and Linux Association
(reads like it's probably a bot responding)...</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><blockquote type="cite"><p><span><a href="https://thecanadian.social/@linuxassociation" title="@linuxassociation" target="_blank">@<span>linuxassociation</span></a></span> Nah, come on. I finished reading that PDF and it's clearly AI
slop.</p><p>Nothing like "Th\u0b68\u09ce Linux Commiand Line" by "INJYDBBS" or
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