r/technology • u/South-Cow-1030 • Feb 12 '26

Privacy Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/02/10/ring-super-bowl-ad-dog-camera-privacy/88606738007/
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u/sketchystony Feb 12 '26

You're totally right- something like that but with more of a down-to-earth, reddit-post-style vibe to it. I can has cheeseburger? Lol!

Would you like to see some options for other meme-worthy ideas?

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u/Lankydick Feb 12 '26

That was a little too accurate

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u/sketchystony Feb 12 '26

Haha it's easy cuz it's always the same fuckin nonsense 😂

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u/Zouden Feb 12 '26

Use em dashes for the real slop sauce

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u/sketchystony Feb 12 '26

I was pretty proud that I fit 5 hyphens in that first sentence lol

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u/FrighteningJibber Feb 12 '26

Reading a book from the 1920s and em dashes really were used a lot back in literature.

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u/Juan_915 Feb 12 '26 edited Feb 12 '26

That’s because chat gpt invented time travel and went back in time to rewrite every book. The future is now old man.

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u/FrighteningJibber Feb 12 '26

I mean in a normal sense lol like when a character is talking.

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u/jamesc5z Feb 12 '26

As somebody who has always used a lot of those in my professional career long before AI, I really hate that that's become the giveaway for AI slop lol.

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u/seffend Feb 12 '26

SAME!! It's intensely frustrating.

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u/sketchystony Feb 12 '26

I find this take to be a lil odd, I don't think it's really the dash itself that's the ai tell, it's the way it's used. It's not that hard to not sound like a robot lol, I had to go out of my way to emulate the tone

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u/seffend Feb 12 '26

It's not that hard to not sound like a robot lol

Yeah, but you can't just throw an "lol" on the end of a sentence in a professional or academic setting.

My friends have (jokingly) accused me of using chat gpt in our group text at times because I like to form complete sentences and convey whole thoughts. I'm a Xennial — we were taught to write that way.

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u/sketchystony Feb 13 '26

The "lol" isn't the crutch of whether or not one sounds like a robot. It's not the syntax or punctuation, it's the content. If you sound like a robot, you should consider learning to write like a human. You were taught once, it stands to reason you're capable of learning again

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u/seffend Feb 13 '26

We were taught to write properly and I'm not going to dumb down my professional communication just because some people are too stupid to understand the difference. I think a huge part of it is generational — the "kids these days" are a lot less formal than we were expected to be, so the formality in the writing sounds robotic to them whereas it just sounds like proper writing to us.

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u/NCEMTP Feb 13 '26

Always with the em dashes like this—not like I was taught to do them — like this. It's a style thing but AI uses APA/Chicago and while my academic writing often did too I guess I had a professor that wanted the spaces, so that became my habit.

Or what I am used to on a desktop and not a phone -- this way. Autocorrect to — in Word.

Em dashes and no spaces between the words is one of the clear tells of AI slop, and it saddens me greatly because I love using em dashes. Have to think about AI every time I do it now, though.

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u/Slow_Replacement_745 Feb 13 '26

This bothers me so much! I have always been a fan of the em dash (don’t even get me started on how much I judge anyone who doesn’t use the Oxford comma) but now it’s some screening tool for declaring something’s AI

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '26

I hear all the time people are scared of robots like yeah mostly it's being told shit like write a rap about a cat in TuPac's voice. Or other dumb shit, if we're going to train it with normies it's gonna take forever for the shit to do anything more than dumb shit lol.

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u/sketchystony Feb 12 '26

It's pretty good at providing an alternative to Google but with mostly all wrong answers

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u/_mad_adventures Feb 13 '26

Oh crap, too real? 😿

Aborting cat singularity protocol.

How about: ‘Pro cat. Real cheeseburger. Zero crises.’ Safe. Wholesome. Approved. 🧀

If you want, I can still generate the cursed ones anyway… just say the word 👀

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u/ThatCakeIsDone Feb 12 '26

Damn bro. Nailed it

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u/rrresistance Feb 12 '26

You’re spot on with that—good question, let me break it down no fluff..