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Amanda M Hatfield

@robotsvsghosts.bsky.social

photographer (of live music + more), visual artist, crazy cat lady, awkward. former photo editor, social media manager, news, etc at brooklynvegan. she/her, gay

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Nome@nome.bsky.social · 2d ago

I think folks ignore one big thing in the comparison of Generative AI to Asbestos - because they just think of Asbestos as "that thing that gives people lung cancer in old buildings." When folks argue that AI is 'useful,' Ignoring the ways that I don't accept that premise, Asbestos was useful.

Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode)@probgobl.in · 3d ago

"A bunch of people would rather post on Race War Now Dot Swastika rather than Bluesky because you keep making fun of their imaginary computer friend" is a RESOUNDING endorsement for the concept of hostility.

Part of a thread from some bluecheck: Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule. I wouldn't bring this up if it was just one person, but it was multiple people since the beginning of August who mentioned in passing something to the effect of either "I'd spend more time on Bluesky if people weren't so anti-AI" *or* "As much as I hate to be there all the useful AI talk is on X." I'm not saying it's anyone's responsibility to praise AI usage. I agree with much of the criticism of the tool. But for many, many people, it is a useful tech (I have talked about the ways I find it extraordinarily useful, only to have people here mock me, insisting my lived experience is a lie). I am just noting that for all the people here who say that people should get off X and spend more time here, the reason I keep hearing from people in various circles who would *like* to do that, but don't, is the vociferous belief of many here that there are no possible positive uses of AI.
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.

futurism.com

Kevin Marks@kevinmarks.com · 2w ago

Threads isn't competing with Bluesky. Bluesky is for people who like to read, and a smaller group who like to write as well. We celebrate literature and literacy. We choose whom to follow and respond to. Threads is Meta applying a Tiktok-like algorithm to inane comments. It amplifies drivel.

Amanda M Hatfield@robotsvsghosts.bsky.social · 2w ago

this is literally what I've been begging for... watermark everything ai-generated. if it's so great then no one will mind... right?

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2w ago

To comply with the EU AI Act, Anthropic will now watermark text and photos created by Claude and digitally sign files it creates to indicate they were generated by AI. So going forward text generated by Claude will be detectable as generated by AI programmatically.

Amanda M Hatfield@robotsvsghosts.bsky.social · 2w ago

Subscribe to Andrew's new newsletter plz!!! He's the best! andrewsacher.substack.com

RIP BrooklynVegan + Citizen's Halcyon Blues & more new album reviews

Welcome to the first-ever post of my newsletter Unhappy Place. I shed a little light on losing my longtime music journalism job and get right back to writing about bands I love.

andrewsacher.substack.com

Andrew Sacher@andrewdsacher.bsky.social · 2w ago

hi. BrooklynVegan was my life for the past 16 years until last week when i was laid off, along with most of our team. if you like my writing, especially about punk & emo, and want to help me out during this time, please read below.

Andrew Sacher@andrewdsacher.bsky.social · 2w ago

hi. BrooklynVegan was my life for the past 16 years until last week when i was laid off, along with most of our team. if you like my writing, especially about punk & emo, and want to help me out during this time, please read below.

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Kyle D. Long@blatherscribe.bsky.social · 3w ago

"AI" cannot be used for research. It has no knowledge or discernment. It does not evaluate what it has been fed and arrive at a correct answer. It assembles stolen words into something that is statistically similar to an answer, but which is definitionally not an answer.

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 4w ago

SpaceX-owned xAI, the developer of Grok, sued Minnesota AG to challenge a law coming into effect in the state that will ban "nudify" apps, use of these AI image generators to make non-consenting intimate images, aka AI deepfake porn of real people including minors. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/s...

Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over law to ban 'nudify' apps

Elon Musk's xAI, now owned by SpaceX, is challenging a law that would ban so-called nudify apps in Minnesota

cnbc.com

Aaron Lehr@aaronjlehr.bsky.social · 4w ago

It FEELS like it should be illegal for a private entity to take all the books that have ever existed, plug them into a machine that can create new books, and then sell them.

Niko Stratis@nikostratis.com · 4w ago

I loathe the take of “well every writer is using AI and afraid to say it”. Like, that’s only true if your sample group is tech reporters and various hacks. Writers that don’t give a shit about writing, they just know they need a newsletter to make money, use AI. That’s a big fucking difference

Brendan Keogh@brkeogh.bsky.social · 4w ago

Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??

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