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

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.

Gary "grim" Kramlich

@vkc @mntmn See also https://mastodon.social/@dnorman@social.ds106.us/111761085208689286

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