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why did i ever do content marketing

@reformed_content_marketer@mastodon.social

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just an angry writer/content lady who's 90% of the way out the door, posting the work-related thoughts I can't put on LinkedIn without risking unemployability

most marketers seem to think anyone who dislikes "ai" is a dinosaur

here to yell into the void about ai hallucinations, deconstruct my content marketing career, and hopefully figure out how to make the world better instead of adding to the enshittification of everything

maybe this account will make someone else feel seen

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Joined June 09, 2026

why did i ever do content marketing @reformed_content_marketer@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange There have been plenty of times when an AI "AI-detector" claimed my completely human-written content was partially AI-generated. These tools are so stupid, yet so many people trust them. I wish there were a reliable, non-privacy-invasive way of assuring human provenance so we could stop these kinds of false accusations. I want there to be reliably AI-free spaces again. All I can really do is use the trust system and hope that showing someone a doc's history occasionally is enough

why did i ever do content marketing @reformed_content_marketer@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@hbons@mastodon.social @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io It's a step forward, but it's not good enough. When I searched for information about that law, one of the first results was a marketing firm called Weventure talking about how they can "make sure your AI-powered content doesn't have to come with a warning label." I'm not linking to them because I don't want to boost their SEO. Basically, they're going to do just enough human review to get around the law.

why did i ever do content marketing @reformed_content_marketer@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@hbons@mastodon.social @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io If my past experiences in marketing are any indicator, people aren't going to check very closely for AI hallucinations before publishing articles that won't be marked as AI. Taking the time to do proper fact checking is obnoxious and not "efficient" enough.

why did i ever do content marketing @reformed_content_marketer@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe @mcc@mastodon.social @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange am I seeing right that anyone globally can opt out, not just UK publishers? And are other tech companies following suit? This is giving me hope that maybe I'll once again be able to have personal website projects that aren't used for AI training or automatically, poorly "summarized" by AI. really hoping!

why did i ever do content marketing @reformed_content_marketer@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@hbons@mastodon.social @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io still happy to see that the EU is trying to do something about unmarked AI content, though! Hopefully non-EU countries will follow suit, and people will keeping working on ways to deal with all the AI slop/hallucinations floating around the internet.

why did i ever do content marketing @reformed_content_marketer@mastodon.social

· 1mo ago

is it another form of ai psychosis if you're going crazy due to everyone else's obsession with ai?

(but also, i didn't get enough sleep last night, and maybe that's all this is)

(who am i kidding, i've been going crazy way too long for this to be resolvable with a good night's sleep)

why did i ever do content marketing @reformed_content_marketer@mastodon.social

· 1mo ago

i miss when i was enthusiastic about life

i miss thinking i had a bright future

i miss thinking people valued my skills

i miss not knowing how llms were trained

but more than that, i miss thinking that most people cared at least a little bit about information accuracy, and that our democracy was strong, and that things were generally going to get better

maybe they still will, but it seems a lot less likely these days

i think we're in for a rough rest of the decade at least

why did i ever do content marketing @reformed_content_marketer@mastodon.social

· 1mo ago

When I sound angry about AI, I'm not really blaming the average AI user.

I'm not blaming people who feel forced to use generative AI at work, especially when it's the new industry standard and your boss mandates it. (I've been there, too). I'm not blaming people who think they need to use generative AI to avoid being left behind. (I've been caught in that trap, too). I'm not blaming people who are just curious about generative AI and don't really know how it was built. (I was once there, too).

why did i ever do content marketing @reformed_content_marketer@mastodon.social

· 1mo ago

What is up with the whole "can't put the genie back in the bottle" thing? Who thought that was a good metaphor for anything?

why did i ever do content marketing @reformed_content_marketer@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@n_dimension@infosec.exchange @BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io i read something a while back about how a company was telling job applicants to do exactly that exercise during job interviews. If you wanted the job, you had to open your chatbot account and prompt it to assess you, then show that to the interviewer. Presumably you didn't get the job if you didn't want to do that or didn't have a chatbot account. Scary AF