“Canva co-founder #MelaniePerkins wrote to staff on May 5 to unveil #Canva’s official #AIGuidelines, two months after it axed the majority of its #TechnicalWriters division and directed #engineers to complete the bulk of their #tasks using #AITools.

The COACHES (weaselword for manager) said the company had recently directed them to *formally assess* the way employees, known internally as “Canvanauts”, use AI in their six-monthly PERFORMANCE reviews. They also said the company has #automated the #writing of these #reviews.

A company spokesperson denied these claims in a lengthy statement but said Canva does “ENCOURAGE” employees to “reflect on how they’re using AI in their work” on an informal basis and said they use an internal tool that assesses performance reviews against their internal metrics after a human has written the

(No dissent tolerated)

“We’re incredibly committed to helping our team thrive in this new era of AI. We’re making significant investments in upskilling across the entire company, with a strong focus on learning and experimentation,” the Canva spokesperson said.

“Our #investmentstrategy in this space aren’t about #replacing our TEAM’s #judgement, #creativity, or #craft, but scaling them so we can spend more time on the projects that move us closer to our mission and make a difference for our community,”

(Emphasis note on TEAM, not individuals)

For a consumer facing software company, the last place I’d be removing human input would be where the technology touches customers. The usability, instructions, reliability through Engineering, Art and crafting of a product.

Where do you cut? Accounting, excessive management (top & bottom) and back office. This is the difference between an accounting/MBA and an Engineering / consumer focused company.

No wonder the technical staff are looking at #Unions. JobBot unleashed by the *Boss Class* to replace technical staff.

#WhiteCollar / #AI / #technical / #business / #Union / #TechUnion <https://archive.md/w4nlJ> / <https://www.afr.com/technology/canva-atlassian-employees-flock-to-unions-amid-ai-job-fears-20250520-p5m0rl>

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Im Keller liegen 21121 Emojis und 90234 Media dateien.

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“UK government wants to legalise automated police decision-making”

by Statewatch.org

@UKLabour

“A proposed law in the UK would allow police decisions to be made solely by computers, with no human input. The Data Use and Access Bill would remove a safeguard in data protection law that prohibits solely automated decision-making by law enforcement agencies”

https://www.statewatch.org/news/2025/april/uk-government-wants-to-legalise-automated-police-decision-making/

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#Fediverse #question:
How can I mute all [#Automated] accounts on #Mastodon?
I don't want to see any #bots in my hashtag #timelines.
Thanks in advance for your #help!

EDIT: To be clear, I like to mute *all* automated bot accounts at once. Not manually mute every single account. That's cumbersome and does not scale.

Trump wants incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk’s #Tesla. A move that could cripple government’s ability to investigate & regulate safety of vehicles with #automated-#driving systems

#Musk spent more than quarter of billion dollars helping #Trump get elected

Removing crash-disclosure provision would particularly benefit Tesla, which reported most of the crashes (> 1,500) to federal safety regulators under the program

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-transition-recommends-scrapping-car-crash-reporting-requirement-opposed-by-2024-12-13/

LOL What the fuck was the prompt for this?

So I've noticed my #LLM #HomeAssistant sometimes signing its #notifications. But it doesn't have a name, so it will either #hallucinate one or use my name or my wife's name. I could try to get it to just not do that, but it is a #7B #parameter model, so it often will try to comply but get hung up on the "structure" of what it thinks it is doing. So rather than beating it down, I was thinking I should just name it.

Any #fun names for an #automated home assistant?

#inaugural Note, right?

I’m strill trying to get used to the ActivityPub terminology. Might implement some at one point.

The big #Quest is my #app, some kind of hand-held fulldive VR, totally #humanist -ethical- able to be held in your hands and be tangibly human. But fully #automated

I might include a picture for good measure:

Just learned that there’s a JavaScript-based screen reader driver for test automation called Guidepup.

https://www.guidepup.dev

Works with VoiceOver & NVDA (no Narrator or Orca/Linux support – but Orca is broken under Wayland so the latter, at least, is not surprising.)

Very cool! I look forward to the day that writing accessibility tests is as commonplace as writing unit tests.

Via @zeorin

Question for all the #opensource perverts out there: How "professional" does #code need to be before it is appropriate to share with the world?

I'll tell you why I ask: I spent a couple weeks getting an #automated build server working for the #Mercury browser. It works and is useful, but it isn't "clean". It has custom elements throughout, like curl commands to upload the finished installer via ftp and notify a Rocket.Chat instance.

It isn't a proper "project" but I feel people could benefit.

Finally got my #automated #browser building #server working. Now I'm just eagerly awaiting the next Rocket.Chat notification that an updated version has been built and is available for download.