Because the reality is that everything that *should* be *hypothetically* useful is being infected and broken and destroyed by an industry that cannot abide things that work, anymore. bsky.app/profile/keta...

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 4w ago

As I predicted a while ago, the media response to this is blaming the "fractious debate" and putting all responsibility on the community's tone, rather than the design choices and priorities of the corporation designing invasively, creepy products mostly used for abusive behaviours

What this means is not that we should carve out 'exceptions' for 'good AI' and sit back - but rather it means protecting whatever narrow, specific actually-useful applications exist actually involves being aggressively anti-gen-AI and anti-hype, and anti-enslopification bsky.app/profile/keta...

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 3mo ago

Every single AI thing that I leave the door open a crack for the possibility that it might end up net-useful, it just ends up stunningly bad. Text-to-speech and speech-to-text should have both just been breezy wins? How are *ALL* the apps in both of those fields just raw garbage?

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soon USA will invent the crime of "Jaystanding", just like what they did in the early 1900s to protect their precious Car industry with the fake crime of "Jaywalking" (which incidentally is now all the rage in India.)

Hypervisible@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d ago

“While the automation industry has big plans to grow their fleets of robots, Marvin stages these protests because she wants to remind people that they have a say in all of this. They have a right to weigh in on whether private robots should be allowed on public streets.”

someone i know who turned into a finance bro on wall st. said this about climate change - "not my problem, my kids will have to face it". i should've probed more, but i was speechless at it. i can't but think he is a sociopath and so are many of these resisters to saving the world.

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 3d ago

absolutely wild how much resistance there is to saving the world for our children

what an absolute twisted po💩 this Vik Bajaj of FK AMZN's Prometheus "AI" is, to frame it so poisonously: “The reason is not that people are Luddites…it’s much like the protests against the masks in Covid. It has become a political symbol" Indian Uncles keep proving their commitment to billionaire 🍆

David Gerard@davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 3d ago

Data centre developers shocked that nobody likes them lol eat shit https://www.ft.com/content/32fd4450-5880-437d-9bd9-df13289ada24 archive https://archive.ph/cZsU6

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Horrific. Infuriating. and that eu façade of caring about safety and standards can do nothing in the face of US Big Tech necromanagement methods

tante@tante.cc · 4d ago

Important reporting on the working conditions of the people building all those data centers. Sure, capitalism, it's exploitative, but the degree of neglect of safety standards and human rights is staggering.

They are all in. They intentionally degraded a product that was widely understood as synonymous with search. It’s like if Kleenex decided tissues should be replaced with sandpaper and then they tried to force everyone to use it.

You’ll take your slop and like it.

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A couple of London activities for next week's 'Stop Dirty Data Centres' European days of action: a panel/assembly luma.com/ekh7k48b and a data centre walk luma.com/a6pwc56f

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Wenn Automatisierung die Existenz bedroht, gehen Menschen auch mal auf die Barrikaden. Das war schon im 19. Jahrhundert so.

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there are a number of you, yes you, who have lost my respect because you openly talk about using genai in your “work” or “as part of your workflow” — the latter has become one way folks are hand waving its use as benign. honestly? fuck you if you are an academic who uses genai.

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There needs to be a lot more acknowledgement of the toxicity USA is spreading. US culture is cancerous and even so called progressives in the US, eg., liberals, are brought up on the teat of Capitalistic ways of being.

NPR@npr.org · 3w ago

A drought-stricken region of northeast Spain has become a focus for American companies searching for locations to place their data centers. n.pr/4eGEFaT

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There seems to be a confusion in some circles between small-models-for-languages such as Te Hiku Media's - which actually exist and need our solidarity - and 'small language models' (LLMs,chatbots) - which don't exist outside wishful thinking about community-powered AI.

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From the makers of Jaywalking™ comes the brand new updated and fresh, latest criminalised human behaviour - JAYSTANDING

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 3w ago

Uber had a 78-year-old retired Penn professor arrested for standing in front of a Uber Eats delivery robot.

What is the deal with hyper-degreed men willingly accepting Cognitive Decline from heavy "AI" use despite their own favourite authorities MITStanfordBerkeley publishing studies about it? They know very well it fries their brain, but nevertheless use it. Is it like a badge of honour?

Day two of owning a flying Tesla Roadster.

This - //Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding.//

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 3w ago

"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." www.ahmath.org/statements

What Sundar is up to in India, that too not very far from his native state:

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I think part of the issue is critical AI folks get dismissed at the door if we don’t give any merit to potential benefits while boosters don’t have to do the same to skeptical ideas. It’s a double standard.

Another tricky read - and one many men need to read