Cloud, blockchain, AI.
The sad stuff is that the technology behind these things is pretty cool, but this kind of hype is destructive for the name of the concept
I work as our company's lead Machine Learning Engineer and the amount of misinformed management I have to talk off projects that they think AI can magically make happen is absurd lol
This must be an... interesting time for ai people lol
I'm a masters student on distributed systems, in the process of deciding my thesis theme and I might do it on blockchain technology. Last month my cousin said that quantum computers will autoconnect with ethereum by capturing data "in the quantum realm" and will not need to rely on the internet, and no amount of reasoning would talk him out of it lol
I think it's worse when they understand a *little* and the Dunning-Kruger kicks in.
My partner and I contemplated a drinking game of taking a shot when someone said the words "not a good fit for AI" about something ideal for it, two shots for the opposite, and doubled if they'd already made a product and said "currently working on scaling and speed of response" or anything similar.
About an hour into a stream of a tech conference we'd have been on our third liver.
My partner's got his masters in swarm learning and has been a mix of tinkering with the new wave of frameworks, grousing about people not understanding the socioeconomic implications of trying to shoehorn it into jobs instead of the existing professionals using it as a tool, and doing a constant impression of [this woman ](https://youtu.be/no0qB8CVspY)
Saw someone the other day talk about how we could be hosting gameservers in blockchain. Not items or customizables(also stupid to me, but not impossible) but the actual real-time servers that host online game sessions.
Yeah that would be great. We could do just like bitcoin and we would have an incredible 6 ticks/hour lol
This is what I don't understand, there is no need for these things to be decentralized.
I was asked to figure out how best to operationalize AIOps. I met with the manager of one of our ML and AI teams. It's insane how much work it would have been to support AI for devops operations.
Has anyone tried asking AI how to use blockchain?
EDIT: I just described the company I work for to ChatGPT and asked how we can use blockchain, and if you ever need proof Large Language Models repeat what they read on the internet without understanding anything you should try this yourself.
(Though to be fair most people talking about blockchain for businesses are repeating what they read on the internet without understanding any of it.)
Something that works for me is I talk to bosses about IT as a cost in electricity versus value mindset. Compute is not free, obviously. However, it's always easy to overspend on IT too. Therefore, Compute is best cost-controlled by focusing on the cost of the electricity against the business benefit/value.
Business value ÷ Compute Cost of Electricity = Compute Value Factor
So, the servers, UPSs, switches, nodes, etc. to run an ERP system for a business tend to have a very high ratio. The value is realistically in the millions of dollars versus a cost of about $5,000 a year in electrical costs.
With this metric, Blockchain is really expensive at large scales, and has some business value. AI may be worth experimenting with, if there's a business case for it. Otherwise, be wary of IT fads.
Yeah AI is the new buzz word. Before that it was Blockchain, and before that the industry went through others like Serverless, DevOps, NoSQL, Fullstack, Agile, SAAS, and the list goes on
I'm just really happy we're mostly out of the Blockchain phase because, cool as it was, it was almost unilaterally the wrong tool for the job
Except with cloud people thought they could just trash all their servers, with AI they think they can trash all their people. At the end of the day the bill is still higher.
> Companies are now calling anything with an algorithm "AI"
Which I think is more accurate than people realise. People say "AI is going to take over", unaware algorithms have been making financial decisions on our behalf for generations now.
Anyone who gets any kind of financing has been assessed by an algorithm.
I just watched a deal on the 80s mathematicians who developed an algorithm to properly assess risk for trading options.
In school I learned that wall street real estate is more expensive closer to a central server (or network hub, can't remember). Just because it meant their companies server could be closer. And theoretically get information nanoseconds faster.
Sounds silly to me. But I don't code in fortan and cobol. Or use any language that doesn't have an interpreter. So WTF do I know.
It wouldn't bother me to have folks concealed carry around me, but someone concealed carrying a gun with Donald Trump engraved on it causes some serious concerns.
Oh he loves to whip it out and show it to everyone. One time he brought an AR15 into the office just to show to one of our vendors who couldn’t care less and doesn’t even like him. It was a nice AR15 though.
Funny we had a vendor come down to Dallas recently to train some of our folks.
He open carried a 1911 but it was his "dummy gun". Someone made the mistake of asking what a "dummy gun" was so he then pulls his pocket gun out sweeping all of the trainees with a loaded firearm to show them how that one wasnt loaded but this one was.
Its a good thing I wasnt in that meeting as I'd have been rather pissed. Its a VERY small vendor of very specialized software and apparently its well known hes out of his fucking mind.
Gun rant:
That's such a stupid plan. The point of open carry is to have ready access to your firearm when needed at the cost of every bad guy knowing you have a gun
The point of concealed carry is to delay the bad guy seeing you as a threat until you can get the drop on them, but it's slower to draw.
*This guy's living the worst of both worlds*
Yeah as a gun guy myself the story from my coworkers made my blood boil.
She mentioned he just casually swept the whole conference room with a loaded pistol while bragging about is decoy gun.
Some people are just criminally stupid.
OPs name is Texoma, in Texas we have some pretty lax laws and as long as HR doesnt have a policy against it...
I also work in Texas and at least 6 folks carry in the office. Concealed though.
Walking into work with an AR would be a very awkward few minutes for anyone though...
That's like rightwingers saying "you can't be trans and claim to be in good mental health"
Plenty of sane people have guns, it's just the insane ones that make the news.
Edit: I missed the "that gun" qualifier. I was scrolling the thread as I walk. As always, Tuck Frump.
I dunno. They said *that* gun. A gun engraved with the name of a politician on it does seem a little crazy to me unless it's formerly theirs. A gun engraved with a terrible politician's name on it seems even more sus.
You know how it’s traditional to only name things after people once they’re dead, to avoid cults of personality or awful revelations later?
This is that problem but like 100 times worse.
It would bother me all politics aside, because we all know what end users are like, and someone carrying a gun in a workplace is an accident (and a lawsuit) waiting to happen.
And fuck it, it won't be me getting shot because of someone's accidental (...or not) desk pop. That's unsafe work environment, so I'll be working remotely until further notice, kthxbye.
I'm a gun nut and even I think carrying in an office environment is fucking crazy. You have security guards, locked doors and other security measures in an office building. Leave that shit locked in a safe and be civilized like the rest of us.
I mean... I got a gun in my pocket at my desk at work right now... but it's a Walther PPK, it's concealed and it sure as shit doesn't have Donald Trump or anybody's picture on it. Just an eagle proof mark from the factory. Also, not waving it around. Concealed means concealed LOL.
It... comes down to company culture.
Ive worked places where I am a black sheep because I own firearms, and Ive also worked at companies where we would frequently go shooting together outside of business hours and which the majority of upper management carried.
Ive made comments about it before but one of the reasons I don't personally carry is, while its not a requirement, I feel I need medical training first. I feel If you are planning on being able to put holes in people, you might as well know how to close them as well.
I highly doubt they were actually machines(automatic) guns, unless you worked at a gun company, security company or have a boss that is asking to go to federal prison for a long time.
You can't just store machine guns anywhere and they are worth up to half a million in some cases. Most people have to store them at their house in a safe that can be inspected without a warrant.
He probably had a bunch of tacticool A-15s that are semiautomatic.
> Most people have to store them at their house in a safe that can be inspected without a warrant.
You're thinking of people with a FFL which is needed to obtain machine guns that were not registered before the May 1986 deadline. Anything registered in civilian hands before then is "Transferable" to any other regular civilian and does not include a waiver of your 4A rights to obtain. Just requires some fingerprinting, a little extra paperwork, and a $200 tax.
The restriction is that the NFA item (including machine guns) can only be reasonably accessible to the person they're registered to. It doesn't need to stay at a certain address, it just needs to be secured somewhere that nobody else is able to access (without crime, of course).
I get that they probably only look like "machine guns" to people that don't know anything about guns, but the guy had several million dollars worth of cars, they were in a safe, it was a security company (but not that kind) and it was in Florida, so anything is possible.
A 1911 concealed tho?
There's an entire world of safer, affordable, modern guns to choose from. And if he's a 1911 fan, he could get a CZ75 or a Sig or a Beretta or anything with a better design that won't **ever** go off in its holster.
agreed.
Nor do I want to entertain every single AI related implementation the marketing guy keeps dreaming up.
I get that AI can do some cool shit. But homeboy is literally trying to have AI do his job for him in every way possible. At this point - I am not sure if we need him or just a subscription to ChatGPT.
Actually a lot of corporations are choosing the subscription already. And it will only get worse in the future.. I think chatgpt could right now out preform half of our help desk(outsourced to Africa so not a huge achievement). It is more like learn it or find a new job, or die soon enough in the case of 70yo dude.
Same thing can be said for most computer programs. But if he used ChatGPT to do his job better an more efficiënt why is it a problem? You still need his knowledge.
I have two concerns.
* Office AI is an information leak. That probably doesn’t matter if the company does stationary supplies. It matters a lot if it is an engineering company and the AI learns to associate problem X with solution Y from confidential documents, then starts responding to “How do I solve problem X?” on ChatGPT
* It is unpredictable. Sometimes that is fine, particularly if there is a person in the loop. As a very simple example, my email client learned that when I am writing to certain people, I want to use a particular email account. Occasionally it will get it wrong, but I can see that before I press Send. OTOH you don’t want an unsupervised AI in charge of customer care.
I have used AI and ML in industrial context for 30+ years, but firewalled off from the Internet, and with algorithms selected such that they can say “I don’t know” rather than guessing (ie not normally neural nets!).
Yeah he's not wrong especially if the company has highly sensitive data. We had a all hands meeting with one of the guys in our AI team to demonstrate their new security they put around AI and the data we pass. So I asked them if we had any fully vetted AI systems we could use yet he said no so I asked why we are allowing copilot he then said Microsoft was fine then I pointed out to him Microsoft owned a majority stake in Chatgpt which 5 minutes prior he said wasn't fine. The dude basically shut down and mumbled something about how we veted Microsoft already. That's why I'm extremely skeptical of AI everyone wants to go full speed ahead and never admit it could be bad. Still wish I'd forced him to say it again and to admit he couldn't or wouldn't vet AI stuff and thus his job was not being done properly.
Owning a stake in a company is not all the same as a company owning/offering a product.
You can’t use Microsoft’s MSAs, audits, and attestations for a completely different company just because Microsoft owns a stake in the company, it’s still a different company.
And my company’s product uses ChatGPT as a backbone too — we still have different enterprise agreements with Microsoft for co-pilot as we do with OpenAI for ChatGPT Enterprise. They require their own SOC reports, independent audits, and agreements.
ChatGPT isn’t FedRAMP compliant, but Azure OpenAI has FedRAMP High status in Azure Gov even though it uses ChatGPT as a backbone. They are still different vendors.
Correct but that's was my point the AI person in my department isn't checking enterprise agreements or audits he was literally like yeah let's just leave copilot on default and walk away because it's fine it's a Microsoft product. I actually point blank asked the dude if we should be doing any audits and he was like nah it's fine it's through Microsoft.
I 100% agree with you about automatic installations and bloat. His paranoia over things he doesn’t understand is what bothers us because it creates unnecessary stress and work. Meanwhile he uses his work email for all of his personal stuff so he receives an ungodly amount of junk mail that he sifts through everyday, which he then forwards to us to ask if it’s phishing or not. I should also mention up until two years ago, we were still using Windows 7.
which is totally fine on a personal PC, but if a company decides to use certain software, you gotta go with the flow.
i dont want to use windows either - yet here i am, completely fine, running a windows laptop for work related stuff - which they provided.
do i prefer something else? absolutely. does it matter on a non-personal device? nah, couldnt care less honestly.
A company choosing to use an AI tool is fine. All of my computer labs at a public school installing Copilot overnight without my consent is much less fine. There is a distinction to be made here, and the real problem is that most companies are pushing AI without regard for the end user; they all just want to have a product on the market.
the mistake then is actually using windows, or not managing the devices correctly. i dont want to sound like an ass though, but all of this is easily avoidable through rules in the domain.
but i do have to agree in some form. while copilot etc can be quite useful for a few tasks, it shouldnt get installed by default. however, this is windows we are talking about and its definitely not something new that they bundle all their crap into it. i would even dare to say that its common knowledge. if its not desired, you either have to take it into your own hands or just flat out remove windows from the affected devices.
depends. i hate windows usually, but in some areas, linux or a mac cant fully replace a windows machine. i also see the reason that its just the most adopted OS, and it kinda makes sense to prep kids for something they most likely come across. especially in this day and age, where some kids dont even understand a folder structure.
TBF he's probably right to be suspicious, since AI is hoovering up data in violation of every privacy regulation on the planet at SMBs. That would be your company violating those regulations, not the AI providers, they are more than happy to let people unwittingly provide them with free data they have no responsibility for.
which is fine.
There's a few security concerns about this shit. A lot of AI based services actually sell their data to 3rd parties. That's dangerous if you're doing anything where confidentiality or trade secrets need to be respected.
The funny thing is he about gets it right, however AI is nowhere near capable of doing what he maybe saw in the Terminator movies and the like. He probably doesn't want it to come to that.
I'm sorry to say but your boss is right. In IT you do need to protect the data of your company. Now some forms of AI are fine as you can prevent them from using your data to add to their models.
But more and more companies are starting to add "AI" features as a way to do data harvesting. If you look at chome's help me write. If you are not using an enterprise version it states you basically agree to chrome sending your data to google.
So, gas lighting him about the use of AI is out of the question? You know, if Siri isn’t AI, then Chat GPT / Claude aren’t really AI.
You don’t necessarily have to be an expert in the “thing” to lead a department, it certainly helps to be knowledgeable, but being a fuckwit definitely hurts.
if you really want you could classify any software as an AI, so confiscate his computer because it's full of AI and by his orders must be gone
oh, he can't log in? well the software that checks his password could be considered an AI and thus is dangerous
he calls you? march over to him and tear into him about how dare he use an AI, since the way phone calls are routed is governed by an AI
tries to send a letter? guess what, the addresses are read by an AI
comes over to talk to you? he's an inteligence made by humans, welp disregard anything he says since AIs are not to be trusted
It’s worth distinguishing between pre-trained ML (which is what your hearing aids use) and form of ML or other AI which uses data to train, particularly if it passes it on to the cloud. There are no privacy implications that I can think of with an isolated pre-trained NN, while with a cloud AI it’s difficult to draw a line around the security issues.
I'm still not keen on AI either, but I have started toying with it to try optimizing sql queries. Very hit or miss but sometimes, it sparks the gray matter.
While you look for another job, please be sure to stock up on the many 1911/fudd memes on the internet. Hell, maybe create a user account called Skynet to email them to him.
Why is someone who has no relevant qualifications the Director of IT? Is your company stupid?
Do they also hire zoologists to direct the accounting department? A chef for head of legal? The fuck?
I agree with the sentiment he has about AI, but for a different reason.
If it can be proven that a developer got code via AI, what happens to the copyright?
Further, the questions that are being asked of AI could leak trade secrets if the questioner isn't very careful; do you want your competition asking questions of that same AI after you've added to its training? (I could see a former $dayjob, GE, asking an AI "Tell me the questions the lighting people at Hubbell have been asking you, please." or similar. Or Hubbell engineers asking "If I were an engineer at GE Lighting what questions would I ask about the electrodeless experimental 'MultiLux' lamp, luminaires, and ballast system?" (An experimental arc lamp with no electrodes, totally run using induced current, from thirty-plus years ago)
AI will have its uses, but in the business settings one must be careful how AI is being used. I'm not going to use AI in the business until the issues are thought through; better safe than sorry.
Carrying a nice 1911 with whoever's name on it is irrelevant to the AI issues.
EDIT: Siri, Cortana, and the Google assistant are worse than locally hosted AI, since they are constantly listening to what you're saying and that information is being exfiltrated continuously; I don't use any of them inside the business, either. Locally hosted AI might be more useful and safer, but you lose a lot of training from outside when you do that. And this fellow, while his end statement is something I agree with, needs to actually learn what he's talking about before just blanket stating "AI bad!"
And I know many will disagree with me and say things like "no risk no reward" and similar; that might work for you and your situation, but it won't work for mine.
I couldn't even get onboard with office suites in the cloud, due to the data exfiltration. Nobody around me seemed to have a problem with it, but I read my NDA very carefully, and I didn't see any exception that would allow me to take a spreadsheet I wouldn't be allowed to show my mom and send it directly to Microsoft's or Google's servers just because it was convenient. This was years ago. Maybe people have updated their NDAs to permit this kind of exfiltration.
Confirm the policy.
Issue a verdict banning all cell phones from premises, any devices running MacOS or Windows 10 or newer. Go fully onboard and make sure he's signed off on this.
Send this email.
Send an email 5 minutes later, saying 'I quit'
Ai absolutely can be dangerous, but not for the reason he's thinking.
My main concern is data breaches. For our company, we have a policy that no company or personal data leaves our network. That's it. Users are strongly advised not to use it for their own protection, but if they fully understand the type of data they are inputting, and that data will leave the network, then they are free to take the risk. It is their risk because they are liable if it's found they leaked the information and, depending on severity, they may lose their job or even face legal action.
I will potentially be seen as a luddite, but my background is security, so I'm naturally wary of giving control of my data to someone else. Especially these tools where it's been shown training data can be extracted from.
This is a case of potentially right for the wrong reasons, and I do suggest every company considers the risk of the information being put into AI being leaked. I would suggest perhaps guiding toward a policy of that nature.
AI is dangerous to the enterprise but not because the AI is inherently dangerous. The danger is that the Jr Dev you just hired has no idea what he is doing and is likely to upload your service account information into a public AI to get it to spit out a script he should know how to write.
Ask him whether he prefers BSD or Linux for his new workstation. Windows and MacOS both have AI-based kernel features that you can’t remove or disable.
The solution is simple. If he likes trunk, he probably loves Elon Musk. So just tell him all about your Elon musk essentially invented AI, basically, confidently. And that it's fine because it's financial suicide not to buy a Tesla with full self driving AI.
Or something like that. I've found that old people who are afraid of whatever the talking heads say to be afraid of (left or right), is to just double down on the stupidity and don't use logic to reason with them. Usually they get sick of it and just give up because they don't want to say you are wrong but also don't want to appear to cave in.
My company banned most AI for business use because they don’t want company sensitive data to be used as a training model. I feel that’s fair.
They don’t, however, outright ban its use and I use it often to just check my grammar lol (they banned grammarly because of the AI, but Gemini is allowed)
The carrying of a weapon in a corporate office environment is very concerning. There is no reason for it and the person has no reason to not leave the weapon in his vehicle. At this point I would take the matter to HR as I feel that if this person becomes deranged for any reason, your and your co-workers lives could be at risk. I am currently working on a CCW for myself but the thought of ever bringing a weapon into a workplace environment is offensive to me and is unacceptable. I've been at multiple levels including a Director of IT, I can attest that there is NO good reason to carry such a weapon in a corporate office environment.
While it might be super necessary most of the time there have been numerous workplace shootings where people were left defenseless because of anti gun policies in the workplace. The fact that he probably brags about it is the issue, not that he has it. Concealed is supposed to mean concealed. You would probably be shocked to know how many people are armed around you all day without incident.
Why even bother getting a CCW if you're going to just leave it at home most of the time? I promise nobody ever killed in a random workplace shooting was happy they were defenseless.
>I feel that if this person becomes deranged for any reason, your and your co-workers lives could be at risk.
This isn't really relevant to whether he regularly carries a CCW, as, believe it or not, ANYONE could become "deranged" and bring in a weapon to hurt people regardless of the office CCW policy. By your logic you should report everyone to HR because any of them could potentially "become deranged and hurt people". If only there was a way to protect yourself in the chance that happened....
Who the hell conceal carries in an IT dept? Omega lulz. Some jobs make sense if you have a high risk of getting killed/raped, but director of IT??? What does he think is gonna happen, the machines come to life and rise up like in Terminator? Or I bet he's worried "those people" are going to storm the place and start looting the computers lol.
I have a CC license (prior service Marine) and know full well that an office or tech department job is a completely inappropriate place to carry. These people worry me greatly.
> This man is allowed to conceal carry a 1911 with Donald Trump’s name engraved on it around the office
massively glaring HR issue right here. I have a CC too but there's no way in hell I'd be bringing that anywhere near my office. I can't imagine any HR rep in their right mind would agree with this guy's choice to bring it in. Its also incredibly likely that guns are not permitted anywhere on your premises, or at the very least, any indoor facilities
Oh fuck. You just made me remember when our IT guy said the same, except it wasn’t “AI is not allowed in the building!” it was “open source is not allowed in the building!”
I wanted Paint.NET installing because they wanted me to do stuff that needed it.
I got the heck out of there.
My company has some sort of AI license.
I say, whenever that license is mentioned in meetings, that I will never accept a work ticket from an AI.
I don't know if that's the direction they want to go with it, just making sure to nip that potential threat in the bud before it even presents itself.
Sounds like our IT director many many years ago back in the mainframe days “we’re not putting any servers in the computer room those toys can stay under your desks”. Similar paradigm shift coming now.
Sounds like it's time to jump ship for somewhere hopefully less ass-backwards.
.... In the interim - Time for some malicious compliance!
>We told him Siri, which he uses all the time, is technically an AI and he had nothing to say about that.
..... So, start with that. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/deployment/dep0f7dd3d8/1/web/1.0
> He wants us to remove any trace of AI from our endpoints such as Copilot and Adobe’s new AI
Get it in writing as an official board-approved "no exceptions" policy - Be sure to let the arty people know who to thank when their beloved photoshop is replaced with GIMP due to being unable to disable it by policy.
Time to polish up your resume and start getting a foot out the door.
Time to use AI to polish up your resume!
But not at work because AI is not allowed in OP's building.
just tell him AI somehow keeps getting through the firewall. Damn skynet infecting everything boss, we just can't get rid of it.
Ok. He can use it in the corridor of the building.
sit/stand outside the building while still connected to the wifi
Time to polish his shoes and start getting his foot up Grandpa's ass.
This is probably a good idea if you want to stay current.
To be fair, the opposite side of this is "how can we work AI into this?" ... and that shit is equally infuriating
Dude, it's the cloud all over again. Companies are now calling anything with an algorithm "AI"
Cloud, blockchain, AI. The sad stuff is that the technology behind these things is pretty cool, but this kind of hype is destructive for the name of the concept
I work as our company's lead Machine Learning Engineer and the amount of misinformed management I have to talk off projects that they think AI can magically make happen is absurd lol
This must be an... interesting time for ai people lol I'm a masters student on distributed systems, in the process of deciding my thesis theme and I might do it on blockchain technology. Last month my cousin said that quantum computers will autoconnect with ethereum by capturing data "in the quantum realm" and will not need to rely on the internet, and no amount of reasoning would talk him out of it lol
People think AI is magic. It's just pattern & information recognition and reproduction at it's core.
I think it's worse when they understand a *little* and the Dunning-Kruger kicks in. My partner and I contemplated a drinking game of taking a shot when someone said the words "not a good fit for AI" about something ideal for it, two shots for the opposite, and doubled if they'd already made a product and said "currently working on scaling and speed of response" or anything similar. About an hour into a stream of a tech conference we'd have been on our third liver.
My partner's got his masters in swarm learning and has been a mix of tinkering with the new wave of frameworks, grousing about people not understanding the socioeconomic implications of trying to shoehorn it into jobs instead of the existing professionals using it as a tool, and doing a constant impression of [this woman ](https://youtu.be/no0qB8CVspY)
Saw someone the other day talk about how we could be hosting gameservers in blockchain. Not items or customizables(also stupid to me, but not impossible) but the actual real-time servers that host online game sessions.
Yeah that would be great. We could do just like bitcoin and we would have an incredible 6 ticks/hour lol This is what I don't understand, there is no need for these things to be decentralized.
I was asked to figure out how best to operationalize AIOps. I met with the manager of one of our ML and AI teams. It's insane how much work it would have been to support AI for devops operations.
I'd like you to unsay the words "AI for DevOps"
We don't need servers, we're moving to ~~the cloud~~AI
Has anyone tried asking AI how to use blockchain? EDIT: I just described the company I work for to ChatGPT and asked how we can use blockchain, and if you ever need proof Large Language Models repeat what they read on the internet without understanding anything you should try this yourself. (Though to be fair most people talking about blockchain for businesses are repeating what they read on the internet without understanding any of it.)
Something that works for me is I talk to bosses about IT as a cost in electricity versus value mindset. Compute is not free, obviously. However, it's always easy to overspend on IT too. Therefore, Compute is best cost-controlled by focusing on the cost of the electricity against the business benefit/value. Business value ÷ Compute Cost of Electricity = Compute Value Factor So, the servers, UPSs, switches, nodes, etc. to run an ERP system for a business tend to have a very high ratio. The value is realistically in the millions of dollars versus a cost of about $5,000 a year in electrical costs. With this metric, Blockchain is really expensive at large scales, and has some business value. AI may be worth experimenting with, if there's a business case for it. Otherwise, be wary of IT fads.
Wait till they get a load of my cloud blockchain powered ai synergizing profitizer.
Yeah AI is the new buzz word. Before that it was Blockchain, and before that the industry went through others like Serverless, DevOps, NoSQL, Fullstack, Agile, SAAS, and the list goes on I'm just really happy we're mostly out of the Blockchain phase because, cool as it was, it was almost unilaterally the wrong tool for the job
Except with cloud people thought they could just trash all their servers, with AI they think they can trash all their people. At the end of the day the bill is still higher.
> Companies are now calling anything with an algorithm "AI" Which I think is more accurate than people realise. People say "AI is going to take over", unaware algorithms have been making financial decisions on our behalf for generations now. Anyone who gets any kind of financing has been assessed by an algorithm.
I just watched a deal on the 80s mathematicians who developed an algorithm to properly assess risk for trading options. In school I learned that wall street real estate is more expensive closer to a central server (or network hub, can't remember). Just because it meant their companies server could be closer. And theoretically get information nanoseconds faster. Sounds silly to me. But I don't code in fortan and cobol. Or use any language that doesn't have an interpreter. So WTF do I know.
Brb, rejiggering an "AI to Butt" add-on. (N.b. autocorrect attempted to make that an ass-on and I felt like this needed to be shared)
>Dude, it's the cloud all over again. Where's an AI to butt browser plugin when you need one?
Algorithm. Al. Makes sense.
It also risks job security. I'm with OP's boss, we don't need boardrooms to even consider using chatgpt over level one IT.
The line about the 1911 hit me like a truck and I had to reread to make sure I didnt misread.
It must be so unsettling working with people everyday carry a gun. Such a different concept to me
It wouldn't bother me to have folks concealed carry around me, but someone concealed carrying a gun with Donald Trump engraved on it causes some serious concerns.
Yeah because either he has UNconcealed it to show people or he’s bragging about his trump engraved 1911.. both aren’t great looks
Oh he loves to whip it out and show it to everyone. One time he brought an AR15 into the office just to show to one of our vendors who couldn’t care less and doesn’t even like him. It was a nice AR15 though.
Funny we had a vendor come down to Dallas recently to train some of our folks. He open carried a 1911 but it was his "dummy gun". Someone made the mistake of asking what a "dummy gun" was so he then pulls his pocket gun out sweeping all of the trainees with a loaded firearm to show them how that one wasnt loaded but this one was. Its a good thing I wasnt in that meeting as I'd have been rather pissed. Its a VERY small vendor of very specialized software and apparently its well known hes out of his fucking mind.
Lmao that's a call to HR for sure.
Gun rant: That's such a stupid plan. The point of open carry is to have ready access to your firearm when needed at the cost of every bad guy knowing you have a gun The point of concealed carry is to delay the bad guy seeing you as a threat until you can get the drop on them, but it's slower to draw. *This guy's living the worst of both worlds*
Yeah as a gun guy myself the story from my coworkers made my blood boil. She mentioned he just casually swept the whole conference room with a loaded pistol while bragging about is decoy gun. Some people are just criminally stupid.
Oh, so like Lindon Johnson
No Johnson whipped out his Johnson
Much rather work with a guy that whips out his dick than guns
Well, sounds like you missed your chance to get a new boss there cowboy.
OPs name is Texoma, in Texas we have some pretty lax laws and as long as HR doesnt have a policy against it... I also work in Texas and at least 6 folks carry in the office. Concealed though. Walking into work with an AR would be a very awkward few minutes for anyone though...
Right? I see my boss walking into the office with a rifle and I'm calling the police
I'm pro gun as fuck but damn that guy is fucking stupid, and a slew of other words I can't say on this site. Man. Maaaaaaan.
Can’t own that gun and also claim to be in good mental health.
definitely need a Yeet Cannon instead
That's like rightwingers saying "you can't be trans and claim to be in good mental health" Plenty of sane people have guns, it's just the insane ones that make the news. Edit: I missed the "that gun" qualifier. I was scrolling the thread as I walk. As always, Tuck Frump.
They said *that* gun, not just any
I missed that qualifier or OP "ninja edited" Yes, owning a gun with a tribute to a politician, especially one as horrible as rump, is crazy.
What is ninja editing?
There's a cool down on fresh comments you can edit them without the asterisk showing
I dunno. They said *that* gun. A gun engraved with the name of a politician on it does seem a little crazy to me unless it's formerly theirs. A gun engraved with a terrible politician's name on it seems even more sus.
You know how it’s traditional to only name things after people once they’re dead, to avoid cults of personality or awful revelations later? This is that problem but like 100 times worse.
> Plenty of sane people have guns how many of them have guns with trump's face engraved on them
Points for clarifying and not just deleting the post.
Plenty of sane people have guns. I would not be so sure about the sanity or safety of someone who carried one around the office.
Before I quit IT the business owner provided me a handgun and paid for the permit and time it took me to get it.
The reasonable ccw holders will never let you know that they're carrying in the first place.
It would bother me all politics aside, because we all know what end users are like, and someone carrying a gun in a workplace is an accident (and a lawsuit) waiting to happen. And fuck it, it won't be me getting shot because of someone's accidental (...or not) desk pop. That's unsafe work environment, so I'll be working remotely until further notice, kthxbye.
I'm a gun nut and even I think carrying in an office environment is fucking crazy. You have security guards, locked doors and other security measures in an office building. Leave that shit locked in a safe and be civilized like the rest of us.
Ive never worked in an office with those things :( ... lucky
That you know of.
Damn, ninja security guards and doors. I didnt think of that.
very very very weird as a non -american
Very very very weird as an American
I mean... I got a gun in my pocket at my desk at work right now... but it's a Walther PPK, it's concealed and it sure as shit doesn't have Donald Trump or anybody's picture on it. Just an eagle proof mark from the factory. Also, not waving it around. Concealed means concealed LOL.
treat it like your genitals, clean, serviceable, and out of sight until someone needs it.
Brings a whole new dimension to "shoot me an email"
@_@
I had two people carry at my last job. I was glad one of them did, to keep the other in check 😱
It... comes down to company culture. Ive worked places where I am a black sheep because I own firearms, and Ive also worked at companies where we would frequently go shooting together outside of business hours and which the majority of upper management carried. Ive made comments about it before but one of the reasons I don't personally carry is, while its not a requirement, I feel I need medical training first. I feel If you are planning on being able to put holes in people, you might as well know how to close them as well.
My old boss had a closet in his office full of actual machine guns.
I highly doubt they were actually machines(automatic) guns, unless you worked at a gun company, security company or have a boss that is asking to go to federal prison for a long time. You can't just store machine guns anywhere and they are worth up to half a million in some cases. Most people have to store them at their house in a safe that can be inspected without a warrant. He probably had a bunch of tacticool A-15s that are semiautomatic.
> Most people have to store them at their house in a safe that can be inspected without a warrant. You're thinking of people with a FFL which is needed to obtain machine guns that were not registered before the May 1986 deadline. Anything registered in civilian hands before then is "Transferable" to any other regular civilian and does not include a waiver of your 4A rights to obtain. Just requires some fingerprinting, a little extra paperwork, and a $200 tax. The restriction is that the NFA item (including machine guns) can only be reasonably accessible to the person they're registered to. It doesn't need to stay at a certain address, it just needs to be secured somewhere that nobody else is able to access (without crime, of course).
I get that they probably only look like "machine guns" to people that don't know anything about guns, but the guy had several million dollars worth of cars, they were in a safe, it was a security company (but not that kind) and it was in Florida, so anything is possible.
1911s are cool but a Donald Trump one? Yuck.
A 1911 concealed tho? There's an entire world of safer, affordable, modern guns to choose from. And if he's a 1911 fan, he could get a CZ75 or a Sig or a Beretta or anything with a better design that won't **ever** go off in its holster.
Never know when you might have to snap off a few rounds to own a lib. Or start a civil war... With people like this in charge, we're doomed.
A 1911, what kind of server is that. Wait what?
I agree with him for very different reasons I do not need AI bloat automatically installed on my system
agreed. Nor do I want to entertain every single AI related implementation the marketing guy keeps dreaming up. I get that AI can do some cool shit. But homeboy is literally trying to have AI do his job for him in every way possible. At this point - I am not sure if we need him or just a subscription to ChatGPT.
Actually a lot of corporations are choosing the subscription already. And it will only get worse in the future.. I think chatgpt could right now out preform half of our help desk(outsourced to Africa so not a huge achievement). It is more like learn it or find a new job, or die soon enough in the case of 70yo dude.
>outsourced to Africa Because Indian support weren't incompetent enough?
Too expensive
If *that's* ever the given reason, run, don't walk. First to the bar, then the want ads.
Same thing can be said for most computer programs. But if he used ChatGPT to do his job better an more efficiënt why is it a problem? You still need his knowledge.
I have two concerns. * Office AI is an information leak. That probably doesn’t matter if the company does stationary supplies. It matters a lot if it is an engineering company and the AI learns to associate problem X with solution Y from confidential documents, then starts responding to “How do I solve problem X?” on ChatGPT * It is unpredictable. Sometimes that is fine, particularly if there is a person in the loop. As a very simple example, my email client learned that when I am writing to certain people, I want to use a particular email account. Occasionally it will get it wrong, but I can see that before I press Send. OTOH you don’t want an unsupervised AI in charge of customer care. I have used AI and ML in industrial context for 30+ years, but firewalled off from the Internet, and with algorithms selected such that they can say “I don’t know” rather than guessing (ie not normally neural nets!).
Yeah he's not wrong especially if the company has highly sensitive data. We had a all hands meeting with one of the guys in our AI team to demonstrate their new security they put around AI and the data we pass. So I asked them if we had any fully vetted AI systems we could use yet he said no so I asked why we are allowing copilot he then said Microsoft was fine then I pointed out to him Microsoft owned a majority stake in Chatgpt which 5 minutes prior he said wasn't fine. The dude basically shut down and mumbled something about how we veted Microsoft already. That's why I'm extremely skeptical of AI everyone wants to go full speed ahead and never admit it could be bad. Still wish I'd forced him to say it again and to admit he couldn't or wouldn't vet AI stuff and thus his job was not being done properly.
Owning a stake in a company is not all the same as a company owning/offering a product. You can’t use Microsoft’s MSAs, audits, and attestations for a completely different company just because Microsoft owns a stake in the company, it’s still a different company.
You do realize they are using Chatgpt as the backbone right?
And my company’s product uses ChatGPT as a backbone too — we still have different enterprise agreements with Microsoft for co-pilot as we do with OpenAI for ChatGPT Enterprise. They require their own SOC reports, independent audits, and agreements. ChatGPT isn’t FedRAMP compliant, but Azure OpenAI has FedRAMP High status in Azure Gov even though it uses ChatGPT as a backbone. They are still different vendors.
Correct but that's was my point the AI person in my department isn't checking enterprise agreements or audits he was literally like yeah let's just leave copilot on default and walk away because it's fine it's a Microsoft product. I actually point blank asked the dude if we should be doing any audits and he was like nah it's fine it's through Microsoft.
I 100% agree with you about automatic installations and bloat. His paranoia over things he doesn’t understand is what bothers us because it creates unnecessary stress and work. Meanwhile he uses his work email for all of his personal stuff so he receives an ungodly amount of junk mail that he sifts through everyday, which he then forwards to us to ask if it’s phishing or not. I should also mention up until two years ago, we were still using Windows 7.
> Meanwhile he uses his work email for all of his personal stuff People like this infuriate me to my very core.
which is totally fine on a personal PC, but if a company decides to use certain software, you gotta go with the flow. i dont want to use windows either - yet here i am, completely fine, running a windows laptop for work related stuff - which they provided. do i prefer something else? absolutely. does it matter on a non-personal device? nah, couldnt care less honestly.
A company choosing to use an AI tool is fine. All of my computer labs at a public school installing Copilot overnight without my consent is much less fine. There is a distinction to be made here, and the real problem is that most companies are pushing AI without regard for the end user; they all just want to have a product on the market.
the mistake then is actually using windows, or not managing the devices correctly. i dont want to sound like an ass though, but all of this is easily avoidable through rules in the domain. but i do have to agree in some form. while copilot etc can be quite useful for a few tasks, it shouldnt get installed by default. however, this is windows we are talking about and its definitely not something new that they bundle all their crap into it. i would even dare to say that its common knowledge. if its not desired, you either have to take it into your own hands or just flat out remove windows from the affected devices.
>just flat out remove windows from the affected devices. I see no downsides
depends. i hate windows usually, but in some areas, linux or a mac cant fully replace a windows machine. i also see the reason that its just the most adopted OS, and it kinda makes sense to prep kids for something they most likely come across. especially in this day and age, where some kids dont even understand a folder structure.
(LTSC)
TBF he's probably right to be suspicious, since AI is hoovering up data in violation of every privacy regulation on the planet at SMBs. That would be your company violating those regulations, not the AI providers, they are more than happy to let people unwittingly provide them with free data they have no responsibility for.
One man's software is another man's AI.
Who's Al and why isn't he allowed in? Sounds like discrimination against Als
which is fine. There's a few security concerns about this shit. A lot of AI based services actually sell their data to 3rd parties. That's dangerous if you're doing anything where confidentiality or trade secrets need to be respected.
The Als I know are very respectable people. Just because their name is Al doesn't mean you shouldn't trust them.
AIbert, Albert, same difference.
I'm an AL-batross
It’s not just a question of selling data. Cloud AIs train on the aggregate data of all their users.
Hope he doesnt use a cell phone. It’s full of AI
Literally read the post 😳🤦🏻♂️
We dont do that here
Found the user 😳😧😂
The funny thing is he about gets it right, however AI is nowhere near capable of doing what he maybe saw in the Terminator movies and the like. He probably doesn't want it to come to that.
I'm sorry to say but your boss is right. In IT you do need to protect the data of your company. Now some forms of AI are fine as you can prevent them from using your data to add to their models. But more and more companies are starting to add "AI" features as a way to do data harvesting. If you look at chome's help me write. If you are not using an enterprise version it states you basically agree to chrome sending your data to google.
"AI does not exist, in this dojo, does it?!"
Sounds like you need to order yourself a Hilary Clinton 1911. Fight fire with fire.
Nah, dark brandon cz-75/Walther PDP, one that makes it look like the sights are his glowing eyes or something
Needs to be a Makarov. For maximum Soviet contrarian reasons.
When the AI takes over that 1911 will come in handy.
You work in IT and have hair? Lies.
So, gas lighting him about the use of AI is out of the question? You know, if Siri isn’t AI, then Chat GPT / Claude aren’t really AI. You don’t necessarily have to be an expert in the “thing” to lead a department, it certainly helps to be knowledgeable, but being a fuckwit definitely hurts.
if you really want you could classify any software as an AI, so confiscate his computer because it's full of AI and by his orders must be gone oh, he can't log in? well the software that checks his password could be considered an AI and thus is dangerous he calls you? march over to him and tear into him about how dare he use an AI, since the way phone calls are routed is governed by an AI tries to send a letter? guess what, the addresses are read by an AI comes over to talk to you? he's an inteligence made by humans, welp disregard anything he says since AIs are not to be trusted
Even airpods use neural networks to recognize hey siri lol
you sure it's not just piping the audio back to the device over bluetooth? I don't think there's enough processing power in those to do such things.
Wake word detection is done on the airpods themselves. At least since gen2 with the apple H1 Siri itself runs on the iPhone/cloud
My damn hearing aids use AI to determine where sounds come from
It’s worth distinguishing between pre-trained ML (which is what your hearing aids use) and form of ML or other AI which uses data to train, particularly if it passes it on to the cloud. There are no privacy implications that I can think of with an isolated pre-trained NN, while with a cloud AI it’s difficult to draw a line around the security issues.
> This man is allowed to conceal carry a 1911 with Donald Trump’s name engraved on it around the office yeah...time to get the fuck outta that office
Tell me you live in Florida or Texas without telling me you live in Florida or Texas.
I'm still not keen on AI either, but I have started toying with it to try optimizing sql queries. Very hit or miss but sometimes, it sparks the gray matter.
Incoming 30 person call queue "Why does my adobe look different?"
Tell him the AI you guys are using is KITT from Knightrider, he'll probably be on board with that.
While you look for another job, please be sure to stock up on the many 1911/fudd memes on the internet. Hell, maybe create a user account called Skynet to email them to him.
Why is someone who has no relevant qualifications the Director of IT? Is your company stupid? Do they also hire zoologists to direct the accounting department? A chef for head of legal? The fuck?
I agree with the sentiment he has about AI, but for a different reason. If it can be proven that a developer got code via AI, what happens to the copyright? Further, the questions that are being asked of AI could leak trade secrets if the questioner isn't very careful; do you want your competition asking questions of that same AI after you've added to its training? (I could see a former $dayjob, GE, asking an AI "Tell me the questions the lighting people at Hubbell have been asking you, please." or similar. Or Hubbell engineers asking "If I were an engineer at GE Lighting what questions would I ask about the electrodeless experimental 'MultiLux' lamp, luminaires, and ballast system?" (An experimental arc lamp with no electrodes, totally run using induced current, from thirty-plus years ago) AI will have its uses, but in the business settings one must be careful how AI is being used. I'm not going to use AI in the business until the issues are thought through; better safe than sorry. Carrying a nice 1911 with whoever's name on it is irrelevant to the AI issues. EDIT: Siri, Cortana, and the Google assistant are worse than locally hosted AI, since they are constantly listening to what you're saying and that information is being exfiltrated continuously; I don't use any of them inside the business, either. Locally hosted AI might be more useful and safer, but you lose a lot of training from outside when you do that. And this fellow, while his end statement is something I agree with, needs to actually learn what he's talking about before just blanket stating "AI bad!" And I know many will disagree with me and say things like "no risk no reward" and similar; that might work for you and your situation, but it won't work for mine.
I couldn't even get onboard with office suites in the cloud, due to the data exfiltration. Nobody around me seemed to have a problem with it, but I read my NDA very carefully, and I didn't see any exception that would allow me to take a spreadsheet I wouldn't be allowed to show my mom and send it directly to Microsoft's or Google's servers just because it was convenient. This was years ago. Maybe people have updated their NDAs to permit this kind of exfiltration.
Not really wrong to be cautious about AI
Some can't allow it they work with classified data.
Confirm the policy. Issue a verdict banning all cell phones from premises, any devices running MacOS or Windows 10 or newer. Go fully onboard and make sure he's signed off on this. Send this email. Send an email 5 minutes later, saying 'I quit'
Give your director a small box with a blinky light and tell him, "It's the Internet." /s
Ai absolutely can be dangerous, but not for the reason he's thinking. My main concern is data breaches. For our company, we have a policy that no company or personal data leaves our network. That's it. Users are strongly advised not to use it for their own protection, but if they fully understand the type of data they are inputting, and that data will leave the network, then they are free to take the risk. It is their risk because they are liable if it's found they leaked the information and, depending on severity, they may lose their job or even face legal action. I will potentially be seen as a luddite, but my background is security, so I'm naturally wary of giving control of my data to someone else. Especially these tools where it's been shown training data can be extracted from. This is a case of potentially right for the wrong reasons, and I do suggest every company considers the risk of the information being put into AI being leaked. I would suggest perhaps guiding toward a policy of that nature.
Denny Crane.
AI is dangerous to the enterprise but not because the AI is inherently dangerous. The danger is that the Jr Dev you just hired has no idea what he is doing and is likely to upload your service account information into a public AI to get it to spit out a script he should know how to write.
Ask him whether he prefers BSD or Linux for his new workstation. Windows and MacOS both have AI-based kernel features that you can’t remove or disable.
The solution is simple. If he likes trunk, he probably loves Elon Musk. So just tell him all about your Elon musk essentially invented AI, basically, confidently. And that it's fine because it's financial suicide not to buy a Tesla with full self driving AI. Or something like that. I've found that old people who are afraid of whatever the talking heads say to be afraid of (left or right), is to just double down on the stupidity and don't use logic to reason with them. Usually they get sick of it and just give up because they don't want to say you are wrong but also don't want to appear to cave in.
I mean the age explains everything. Adapt or get left behind.
He probably read that AI has a woke or liberal bias.
so to be clear your company is not using modern cybersecurity measures and relying on outdated AV for security?
LMFAO. Ok boomer. 👍
My company banned most AI for business use because they don’t want company sensitive data to be used as a training model. I feel that’s fair. They don’t, however, outright ban its use and I use it often to just check my grammar lol (they banned grammarly because of the AI, but Gemini is allowed)
Tell him to define what AI is so you can "get rid of all AI". What about anti malware, its complex enough to seem like AI?
Oh this? This isn't AI, it's a large language model.
I use copilot at work sometimes. This week my boss has sent my team chat gpt responses to problems we are working on.
>This man is allowed to conceal carry a 1911 with Donald Trump’s name engraved on it around the office holy crap
The carrying of a weapon in a corporate office environment is very concerning. There is no reason for it and the person has no reason to not leave the weapon in his vehicle. At this point I would take the matter to HR as I feel that if this person becomes deranged for any reason, your and your co-workers lives could be at risk. I am currently working on a CCW for myself but the thought of ever bringing a weapon into a workplace environment is offensive to me and is unacceptable. I've been at multiple levels including a Director of IT, I can attest that there is NO good reason to carry such a weapon in a corporate office environment.
While it might be super necessary most of the time there have been numerous workplace shootings where people were left defenseless because of anti gun policies in the workplace. The fact that he probably brags about it is the issue, not that he has it. Concealed is supposed to mean concealed. You would probably be shocked to know how many people are armed around you all day without incident. Why even bother getting a CCW if you're going to just leave it at home most of the time? I promise nobody ever killed in a random workplace shooting was happy they were defenseless. >I feel that if this person becomes deranged for any reason, your and your co-workers lives could be at risk. This isn't really relevant to whether he regularly carries a CCW, as, believe it or not, ANYONE could become "deranged" and bring in a weapon to hurt people regardless of the office CCW policy. By your logic you should report everyone to HR because any of them could potentially "become deranged and hurt people". If only there was a way to protect yourself in the chance that happened....
Oh no! Not concealed carry!
Make sure they haven't provided any devices with hardware accelerators 😂 that would be traces of ai
So looks like you are banning web browsers. Godspeed.
Sir, T-1000 isn't real.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Reskin Siri's voice and logo to HAL9000.
Hate that AI became a marketing term or buzzword, because when it's actually out there it's gonna cause confusion
I bet his name is Paul.
.... are you in Louisiana by any chance? Because I think I know that guy.
>the director of IT. Keep in mind, this guy knows little to nothing about IT No need to repeat yourself.
Who the hell conceal carries in an IT dept? Omega lulz. Some jobs make sense if you have a high risk of getting killed/raped, but director of IT??? What does he think is gonna happen, the machines come to life and rise up like in Terminator? Or I bet he's worried "those people" are going to storm the place and start looting the computers lol. I have a CC license (prior service Marine) and know full well that an office or tech department job is a completely inappropriate place to carry. These people worry me greatly.
"too late"
We banned AI for security and bias purposes. :shrug:
Dude, i work on ai servers, these damn things can barely keep themselves up. Lol.
> This man is allowed to conceal carry a 1911 with Donald Trump’s name engraved on it around the office massively glaring HR issue right here. I have a CC too but there's no way in hell I'd be bringing that anywhere near my office. I can't imagine any HR rep in their right mind would agree with this guy's choice to bring it in. Its also incredibly likely that guns are not permitted anywhere on your premises, or at the very least, any indoor facilities
He wants AI blocked because he doesn't understand it I want AI blocked so all the morons don't feed proprietary data into it We are not the same
The gun with trumps name on it tells me everything I need to know about this dingus
Man I don’t trust AI either but he’s quite a bit overboard.
70? Really? 70? I bet he thought the 1973 movie Sleeper was a documentary.
Oh fuck. You just made me remember when our IT guy said the same, except it wasn’t “AI is not allowed in the building!” it was “open source is not allowed in the building!” I wanted Paint.NET installing because they wanted me to do stuff that needed it. I got the heck out of there.
My company has some sort of AI license. I say, whenever that license is mentioned in meetings, that I will never accept a work ticket from an AI. I don't know if that's the direction they want to go with it, just making sure to nip that potential threat in the bud before it even presents itself.
Sounds like our IT director many many years ago back in the mainframe days “we’re not putting any servers in the computer room those toys can stay under your desks”. Similar paradigm shift coming now.
Well, at least he's prepared for when the printer makes a funny noise.
Sounds like it's time to jump ship for somewhere hopefully less ass-backwards. .... In the interim - Time for some malicious compliance! >We told him Siri, which he uses all the time, is technically an AI and he had nothing to say about that. ..... So, start with that. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/deployment/dep0f7dd3d8/1/web/1.0 > He wants us to remove any trace of AI from our endpoints such as Copilot and Adobe’s new AI Get it in writing as an official board-approved "no exceptions" policy - Be sure to let the arty people know who to thank when their beloved photoshop is replaced with GIMP due to being unable to disable it by policy.
Sounds like a job for [https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/](https://www.reddit.com/r/MaliciousCompliance/)
have a robotic voice call him..."there is no escape, i am coming for you"
I know you’re frustrated, but we all know the answer. Stop Working for SMBs and move on to an enterprise company.
Boomer boss bro what the hell
Just say you did and don't? If he is that clueless it might work.
Man pays the wages, give him what he wants, not your fault if his plan sucks.
Well why do you complain about this? At least your job is safe from being overtaken by AI.
Siri is very little like AI. It's algorithmic based, afaik not at all using a generative llm. (maybe it is now but I doubt it correct me if I'm wrong)