Brutkey

arclight
@arclight@oldbytes.space

Our IT department has been happily rolling out AI-enabled internal tools that nobody* asked for while simultaneously warning us about our internal policy against external LLM and generative AI use and (also simultaneously) not being able to firewall off or block traffic to Adobe or Microsoft's AI farms because they have a constantly morphing pool of AI servers to make them effectively unblockable.

Just like botnet operators.

Oh right. IT pays Adobe a license fee so Adobe can harvest my work and put me at risk of federal jail time. They also pay Microsoft a license fee to do the same.

This is the same IT department that does its best to lock down my workstation to prevent me from using unauthorized unsafe free applications instead of the authorized unsafe applications they paid money for.

I don't for a second feel our IT department is especially incompetent or evil in this regard. They don't seem too different from every other corporate IT department I've dealt with in the past 20 years or so.

Clearly if I suggest that corporate IT is the main problem, I'm the one with the attitude problem, I'm the security risk.

* i.e. our investors

Often with tone of "we'll fire and prosecute you to the fullest intent of the law" because since all the malls started closing, all the mall cops moved into IT. That's my theory anyway.