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I guess we're past the point where codewords like "winnie the pooh" work but is NLP so advanced it can parse all the other ways human hint and indirectly communicate with each other?

Like can't I just send something like "hey coworker, lets do the thing that's opposite of ionized!". Or will the AI block my message (or more scarily, subtly rewrite it) and inform my manager?

This seems like tech with huge unintended consequences if perfected (even for their intended benign uses in workplaces) since it has the potential to be scaled up to censor society.



Or just... don't use your company's chat product to talk about unionization efforts?

I'm mostly agnostic toward unions for software workers. I think we need something closer to what professional engineers have than to what police/teachers have.

And then my employer started punishing people for talking about unionizing. That's when I became pro-union.

Often times, it's the clamp-down that turns people against you. "The tighter you tighten your grip..."


I find it incredibly unlikely that this tech has been perfected to such a degree. People have tried for a very long time to fix spam. It still gets through. I think that this is unfixable on a technical level, because people can simply change the meaning of words.




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