I'm so sick of LLMs and AI. Let me try and organize my thoughts into something vaguely coherent.

I don't have any real qualifications to discuss this; I'm just a random anarchist, social science nerd working in tech. This isn't trying to be objective or the truth™.
Just giving voice to some ideas and hurling them into the not-quite-void of my Mastodon community.

Obviously, there's the slop of it all. That has been discussed extensively (and still is), but doesn't fully explain the ick.

Smarter and more qualified people have already covered the environmental catastrophe of the massive datacenters this technology relies on.

I'm not even getting into how the scale of current LLMs is made possible by massive non-consensual data extraction and the quasi-monopolization of the internet by a few giant corporations.

My main issue is the vision of the world and values implicit in this push for AI.

Some people have found LLM tools to be empowering (as Cory Doctorow is fond of saying: centaurs). Good on them. But I don't think I'm going out on a limb when I say that this isn't why bosses and tech companies are cramming AI into everything.

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#AntiAI #WorkersRights #BigTech

I recently came across an interesting video about a method for identifying AI-generated art. I thought it was worth sharing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxui8MoUJ5k

TLDW: Increasing the saturation and luminosity of an AI-generated image reveals artefacts, even in solid-coloured areas.

However, I'm not sure how reliable this method is, since a very similar effect can be observed in JPEGs with medium to high compression. I'd love to hear from anyone who can shed some light on this (pun not intended)!

#antiAI #AIisNotArt

I recently came across an interesting video about a method for identifying AI-generated art. I thought it was worth sharing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxui8MoUJ5k

TLDW: Increasing the saturation and luminosity of an AI-generated image reveals artefacts, even in solid-coloured areas.

However, I'm not sure how reliable this method is, since a very similar effect can be observed in JPEGs with medium to high compression. I'd love to hear from anyone who can shed some light on this (pun not intended)!

#antiAI #AIisNotArt

I'm so sick of LLMs and AI. Let me try and organize my thoughts into something vaguely coherent.

I don't have any real qualifications to discuss this; I'm just a random anarchist, social science nerd working in tech. This isn't trying to be objective or the truth™.
Just giving voice to some ideas and hurling them into the not-quite-void of my Mastodon community.

Obviously, there's the slop of it all. That has been discussed extensively (and still is), but doesn't fully explain the ick.

Smarter and more qualified people have already covered the environmental catastrophe of the massive datacenters this technology relies on.

I'm not even getting into how the scale of current LLMs is made possible by massive non-consensual data extraction and the quasi-monopolization of the internet by a few giant corporations.

My main issue is the vision of the world and values implicit in this push for AI.

Some people have found LLM tools to be empowering (as Cory Doctorow is fond of saying: centaurs). Good on them. But I don't think I'm going out on a limb when I say that this isn't why bosses and tech companies are cramming AI into everything.

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#AntiAI #WorkersRights #BigTech

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

https://antirez.com/news/158

#HackerNews #antiAI #hype #AI #awareness #tech #news #future #of #AI

@emilymbender an excellent and professional stance! Far far away from the revolutionary tone of #antiAI or #mundaneslop language that a lot of the web has felt the need to use.

FWIW the word agent has been in the AI textbooks since decades. So, indeed, it was just a matter of picking up. Similarly the humanization of computers has been in the study since a bit (e.g. "The media equation").

What I like most is your description of language spread: it makes no one centrally responsible! Just, all!

@cstross @pluralistic

Oh, you mean MicroSlop's CEO? The company that created SloPilot (CoSlop?). Naaaah. #antiai

@cstross @pluralistic

Oh, you mean MicroSlop's CEO? The company that created SloPilot (CoSlop?). Naaaah. #antiai

#antinazi #antizionist #chatgpt #ai #fuckai #antiai #artificialintelligence #antiartificialintelligence #fuckartificialintelligence #llm #antillm #fuckllm #read #antifa #antiauthority

#antinazi #antizionist #chatgpt #ai #fuckai #antiai #artificialintelligence #antiartificialintelligence #fuckartificialintelligence #llm #antillm #fuckllm #read #antifa #antiauthority

HOW TO TURN OFF AI FEATURES IN NOTION

Weirdly, you have to send an email to Notion Support...!

Email: team@makenotion.com

Text to copy-paste:
Please turn off all AI features in all workspaces that I own. I understand that this will turn off all AI features, now and in future.

Then your AI settings page for your Notion workspace will look like this:

#antiAI #Notion

HOW TO TURN OFF AI FEATURES IN NOTION

Weirdly, you have to send an email to Notion Support...!

Email: team@makenotion.com

Text to copy-paste:
Please turn off all AI features in all workspaces that I own. I understand that this will turn off all AI features, now and in future.

Then your AI settings page for your Notion workspace will look like this:

#antiAI #Notion

People are being fired, or employed precariously, because too much money has been funneled into the bankrupt technology of genAI and the profits have never materialized.

Companies cut costs with employment in order to keep fueling the investments in either building or using genAI.

(article by FastCompany, paywalled, so here's an alternative way to read it) https://archive.is/9sdT5

We should all be luddites and call this technology by its name: an anti-social technology.

#antiai #luddite

People are being fired, or employed precariously, because too much money has been funneled into the bankrupt technology of genAI and the profits have never materialized.

Companies cut costs with employment in order to keep fueling the investments in either building or using genAI.

(article by FastCompany, paywalled, so here's an alternative way to read it) https://archive.is/9sdT5

We should all be luddites and call this technology by its name: an anti-social technology.

#antiai #luddite

Turn off AI slop in Pinterest. It doesn't eliminate everything but it is an improvement.

#AntiAI
Profile → Refine your recommendations → Gen AI interests

Turn off AI slop in Pinterest. It doesn't eliminate everything but it is an improvement.

#AntiAI
Profile → Refine your recommendations → Gen AI interests

I just installed the Ultimate Bad Bot Blocker on our Mastodon server. It blocks bad bots, spam referrers, vulnerability scanners, malicious user agents, malware, adware, ransomware, and other harmful bots. It also includes anti-DDoS protection and a Fail2Ban jail for repeat offenders
https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker

#MementomoriSocial #OpenSource #Mastodon #AntiAI #AI #Bots

Not the cyberpunk we imagined.
#AntiAi #Google #TumblrPost #Propaganda