There was a window of time starting about 2005 and ending about 2025 when it was easy for an average person to create and distribute a genuine image or video, but difficult for an average person to create a fake image or video that stood up to scrutiny.

That was the window of time that citizen journalism worked.

It has closed.

“I am here to be rude, because [AI] is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response.”

Gosh, this is good. https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

In my Sept, 2024 blog piece on #MOLE Training I quoted David Chapman, a PhD in AI research. He sums up this unjustified optimism nicely in his book #BetterWithoutAI;

"Most AI researchers think AI will have overall positive effects. However, this seems to be based only on a vague faith in the value of technological progress in general. It doesn’t involve worked-out ideas about desirable futures in which AI systems are enormously more powerful than current ones."

https://betterwithout.ai/only-you-can-stop-an-AI-apocalypse

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A strong statement of resistance to the relentless marketing of "AI" in education spaces. I encourage all educators to have a look and consider signing on:

https://openletter.earth/an-open-letter-from-educators-who-refuse-the-call-to-adopt-genai-in-education-cb4aee75

I documented the creation of this loop from concept sketch all the way through final animation in a series of free Patreon posts: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1466364?view=expanded

(You can download the original GIF which is attached to the final post)