I think it would be generous to assume he only used a slop generator to refine the post text to read more LLM-y, because that might impress the LinkedIn algorithm and audience. The text is as blatant as it gets but it’s one thing. I suspect something much worse. I’m not in that subculture, to be clear, but here’s the vibe I get.

I’m 100% certain the idea itself is LLM-generated from the get-go. If this was his own idea, the word “corporate” would not be there. He would have called it “workflow punk” or “optimizer punk” or something. Even corporate cheerleaders know how bad the word “corporate” looks.

Then he probably repeatedly prompted it for ideas. There are a lot of parts that if described sound like the description of a punk aesthetic. Reminds me of an old story from my somewhat misogynistic middle school Arabic teacher, who gave a story about how one of his friends got introduced to a woman by someone else, who was describing her before introducing them. The description was a pretty conventional way to call someone pretty in our culture, “dark beautiful eyes”, “confident stance”, etc etc. The punchline is that my teacher then meets this woman, now happily married to his friend, and her eyes are indeed wide and dark, and her stance is indeed confident, and her hair is indeed framing her face well… but as a whole, she is a person with beautiful features, but they don’t look quite right together. A look that is less than the sum of its beautiful parts. He says they’re good friends, for what that’s worth. I don’t like the way this story breaks down a person’s looks just to call them unattractive, but I have thought about it a lot. It’s an interesting thought experiment, and the crude way to describe it using a person was very memorable, tasteless as it is.

The LLM helped “brainstorm” individual bits and then he might have asked for an image to be generated, giving him a visual representation based on a list of things, rather than iterating a look to see what things fit together.

I know someone up there mentioned “hey at least he looks pleased with himself” but this is a delicate case of this person has no taste. The AI helped him “””innovate””” this look, and the AI is the tool of the future and the fire of our society’s loins, so he likes it because of that. Not because the aesthetic says anything to him.

God my comments are unnecessarily long winded. I should take a page out from the zoomers’ book and just spam NEGATIVE AURA NEGATIVE AURA instead of inflicting continued psychological damage on myself by analyzing the Ai-induced rot of our relationship with the human experience.

I dont like it

That man has never stayed up for 3 days doing speed and listening to Swedish DBeat in his life!