Yes, I do think people posting their “artwork” in ai subs are dumb. And I use AI all day where it excels at solving business problems, pattern recognition and outlier detection. But using gen AI to mask lack of creativity or talent is a scourge on humanity.

And subbed.

Personally, if I see AI content I block the user that posted it. If a community is all about AI, I block the community. I want to see content from people that have actual talent or something intelligent to contribute.

Also, managers generally don’t like their people going to HR about things without already knowing the situation ahead of time.

Yep. This part. Even if you convince HR, your manager will be able to come over the top and say no. And if they feel like you are an HR risk, that’s exactly what will happen.

We had to write a classifier for web traffic at a prior employer using known scraper IPs as our training set, and Chrome on Linux got us over 70% of the way there. A sizable number of bots that are just a $5 a month Linux based VPS with selenium and chrome engine.

And scrapers/bots. These make up a staggering amount of web traffic and Linux dominates server land.