I was inspired by @mntmn 's "using AI wastes a lot of energy" email signature idea.

Leonieke

@vkc O, this is great - thanks!

Veronica Explains

Yes, I'm pretty happy with how this turned out. Definitely a throwback to the "please don't print this email" days and makes a tiny statement about who I am as a person.

Plus it encourages everyday folks who want to resist so-called AI but don't know how to get started.

Thank you so much for the idea @mntmn !

yetzt

@vkc i don't think sparkle is a good emoji representation for ai. i'd read it as "no glitter allowed".

Jared White — Free Garcia Now!

@vkc @mntmn As someone who has worked with people who would literally just send cryptic one-liner emails, I'd still completely prefer that to smarmy, overly-verbose slop text!

Veronica Explains

@yetzt on the other hand even Emojipedia says it's come to refer to companies using so-called AI.

✨ Sparkles Emoji | Meaning, Copy And Paste

The glittering flashes of sparkles. One of the world's most popular emojis, it is generally depicted as a cluster of three, yellow four-point stars, wi...

Emojipedia (emojipedia.org)

Kett

it really bums me out that companies claimed as the signifier for "AI" because i've always enjoyed the whimsy of the sparkles emoji

Veronica Explains

@kett I've only ever used it ironically myself, but lately it's in everything companies push that they call "AI"

Veronica Explains

@jaredwhite yeah the single word "help" in an email is so much better than the overly verbose crud.

Nicklii :archlinux:

@vkc
Not the most intuitive but i like the idea.

Probably a combination of and 🤮 would be easier to get he impression across.

@mntmn

greem

@mntmn @vkc my first thought there was "No Subaru vehicles beyond this point". They have more sparkles though!

mkj

@jaredwhite And if you get a short, cryptic email that makes no sense, at least you *know* that it makes no sense and can act accordingly. As opposed to something where a LLM has taken the same nonsensical input and extruded something that *appears* to make sense but which might very well not be at all what the person who sent it intended! (Or it might be. It's just impossible to know.)

@vkc

traecer

@vkc @yetzt I've only just now realized that the sparkles character is NOT THE SAME as the fireworks character. ‍️

@vkc I think this is a great idea and your new emoji fits perfectly!

lizzzzard

@vkc @mntmn I was just thinking about how to word a signature like this a few minutes ago. #noSlop will be the problem of this year in corporate environments as all colleagues go through their individual AI learning processes.

Sean Fenian

@vkc@linuxmom.net @mntmn@mastodon.social Also "no vampires"?

Brian Owen

@vkc @mntmn I think this is great. It's inviting instead of scolding. And to your point, I agree, just send me the bullet points.

Daltux

Here is also a literal noAI custom emoji that I took from a public domain Wikimedia Commons image and added the white background:

CC: @mntmn@mastodon.social

#noAI #noLLM #slopMachines

I am Jack's Found 404

@vkc @mntmn

Please consider the environment before printing this email or feeding it through a horrendously inefficient space heater.

Human 3500

@vkc
I think the real challenge will be getting an AI to make a better "no AI" symbol.
@mntmn

Crazypedia

@vkc@linuxmom.net @mntmn@mastodon.social thank you!

The Orange Theme

@vkc @mntmn I love this! Brb plastering it everywhere.

Wandering Adventure Party

I was inspired by @mntmn 's "using AI wastes a lot of energy" email signature idea.

✨ Sparkles Emoji | Meaning, Copy And Paste

✨ Sparkles Emoji | Meaning, Copy And Paste