Seriously, if my opposition is to the process, arguing with me purely about the result independent of the process is irrelevant. I can't differentiate the money you get from a job or a bank robbery. The bills themselves looking identical is very much not the point of my issue with bank robbery.

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guys the only way I can run this business is if I cook rats and the children I snatch from the playground behind my house why do you want me to fail? Why do you want to crush my dreamsssssss like thissssss 🥺

Fiona Marchbank - Thought Bubble, Bubbleboy Hall C13@fionacreates.bsky.social · 2w ago

You have to remember to tug on their heartstrings too. “Itself always been my dream to cook burgers but all the health and safety certificates, cleaning equipment and the chefs training are too expensive. They’re trying to destroy my dream restaurant!”

AI shouldn't be able to fire you, fire a weapon, or deny you healthcare.

“It has no place in my world” goes hard and is entering my permanent lexicon

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons buff.ly/YJ1mAiP

ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons

OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.

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I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

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JD Vance on Angie Nixon: "Get the hell out of here. You don't belong in America"

All "oh you like this incredibly fucked up nonconsensual porn I made? Get this, it costs only one disabled man dying after his sole caretaker got kidnapped into the torture camps per week."

I’m sorry but if there is no Kermit what stops me from murdering people? A genuine internal desire to not harm others? Uh keep dreaming aphibiests

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"I belong to a cult. Someone did some research that undermines the core tenets of my cult and came up with a catchy phrase that makes it harder to recruit more people to my cult. This makes me sad."

Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

They all want to be the Oppenheimer of Death Star Ouija boards and that is not something you should want to be, even though it's a very silly fantasy

There are VERY real dangers emanating from the LLM field. None of them involve creating a superintelligent AI. Not unless these companies abandon their current path and go in an entirely different direction. We SHOULD be extremely hostile toward LLMs. They ARE dangerous. Just not in this way.

‘God, look at you! Then look back. A thousand centuries of absolute terror, absolute grief. How parents stayed sane to raise their kids when half of them died, damned if I know. Yet with broken hearts, they did. While millions died of flu or the Plague. (1/2)

Hilarious that these incidents wherein AIs "break containment" and cause problems are being cited as evidence of consciousness. They made a dangerous product that causes damage it isn't supposed to cause, and people are spinning that as something awe-inspiring.

HELL YEAH!!!!!! (And congrats to @gregpak.net for his absolutely tireless work pushing for this outcome)

CNN@cnn.com · 2mo ago

New York City is banning the use of generative artificial intelligence for public school students from 2K through 8th grade, part of a larger move to restrict classroom technology in the nation’s largest school district. https://cnn.it/4iGlH79

Hey, @mayor.nyc.gov, did you see the study of 26,000 kids that showed "A.i." use causing a DECREASE in exam scores of up to 24 POINTS? Don't leave our kids behind by pushing "A.i." on them! Please declare a 2 year moratorium on "A.i." in the public schools NOW! cc @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

8/ This isn’t a Ministry of Truth rewriting history, and it isn’t Fahrenheit 451’s firemen burning books on purpose. It’s stranger: no one decided to erase anything at all. The erasure is just what falls out of a business model built on extraction.

Citing the printing press in an effort to kneecap tech skepticism is the last refuge of scoundrels.

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This actually is the root of a lot of my anger and frustration, and yes, grief. I spent years crafting accessible classrooms, advocating for tech, and now every measure I use for access is misused by (mostly able-bodied) students who want to cheat with gAI. And our institutions are no fucking help.

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I spent years fighting for tech in the classroom for disability access reasons, arguing that no, accommodation wasn't enough, go for universal design. I've given up. I've lost. AI humping motherfuckers ruined it. As they ruin everything.

Harry Potter fans got a 125-mile cable line rerouted after bombarding its manufacturer with phone calls.

“[AI] risks becoming an iron curtain that comes down between a young person and their potential for thinking… it risks halting learning before it can take flight.” Moving and important article by the great Katherine Rundell. Please read! www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

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