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@tante I'm in a similar place. It's strange how selective people can be in how they gather and assess data. Slop AI is one area in a series where this has been screaming in my face how stupid collective human culture can be.

Maybe we need to move on. Look ahead, and build based on what we expect going forward rather than try to change the direction. Everything changes and almost most everything is a cycle. The period can be too long for individuals to span, but we can still contribute goodness.

@tante feeling this so much.

like there have been a lot of crazes in tech. going to agile. automatisation. putting everthing into containers.

and my tech friends believe it is just another one of those. but AI is destroying so much more then any of those other things could.

I will continue running against that wall with you.

@tante It's just me of this AI craze is longer than NFT was? My company did not move from "evaluating" for NFT before they lost their prime on the news, but for AI they are already implementing. I'm quite scared of this company future.

@tante Understandable. I don't get how people just keep on running with the hype train even tho there are so many blatantly bad sides to it … there are basically only bad sides to it. It must be tiring to keep resisting that wilful ignorance.

As someone with a background in media philosophy, I do love your insights. Thank you for your work.

@tante I have a translator colleague who's equally fed up with having to comment on the technology (they're often asked for quotes by the media). When they asked me if they should keep doing it (rather than talk about any other aspect of translation) I said that those of us without a voice on the subject are endlessly grateful to those who can speak. I think it's the same here, sadly for you! You *can* walk away from this, but would you be at peace with yourself if you did?

@tante https://famichiki.jp/@RachelThornSub/116082966766609042

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> I can keep making the same arguments against using "AI" for anything relevant from here till the cows come home but it's not gonna change people's opinion.

Have you made these arguments in writing anywhere? I'm particularly interested in the skill atrophy angle.

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Sisyphean tasks don't mean keep going until you're exhausted, demotivated, & depressed.

https://democracyproject.org/posts/sisyphean-democracy

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2023/03/finding-joy-happiness-in-absurd-boredom-stress/673248/

https://vocal.media/writers/life-as-a-sisyphean-struggle-finding-meaning-in-the-futility

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-gops-sisyphean-punishment-for-supporting-trump/

It means self-care, taking a break sometimes, rest & recuperation too. Trite advice, I know but...

The fight against billionaire fascism & AI is daunting but take moments to encourage others to tag in so you can get a break & refind the joy of living.
https://jacobin.com/2023/09/climate-crisis-artificial-intelligence-existential-risk-billionaires-capitalism

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wazuh?

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"AI" is no different (in this respect) from the adtech surveillance thing. People screamed and screamed about the risks to society. Zuboff wrote years ago the definitive book on #surveillancecapitalism but the odious engine is still more or less intact, printing billions of profits every quarter, buying the souls of regulators, politicians etc.

Except... there are a few cracks here and there. You never know when they might grow and the whole damn immoral construct gets washed away.

@tante I honestly feel defeated by ai. Not only I could not keep it away from our NGO, no, I think I made it extra bad by pointing out the obvious and everybody signed but nobody listens and cared on a deep level by absolutely abandoning it. Iam tired too… and it’s not only AI it’s also all this big tech stuff.

I was interviewed for a documentary last week and we talked a lot (also about "AI") and the director told me to write a quick book on it, like bring it all to paper he'd help me get a publisher and all that. And - not trying to brag - I don't think I'd have a hard time getting it published, I do have a bit of visibility in Germany.

But holy shit do I not want to have to tie my name even more to that soul crushing, inhumane, life-negating slop topic.

@tante I don't know whether you care to hear this or even believe me: I fell this so hard.

AI in its current form is so deeply inhumane that it will be a generation's work to unravel the damage that the hype has done and will continue to do until it finally pops. But alas, it will pop.

@tante it's really sad to watch communities I used to enjoy being part of getting suffocated under the pressure of any old passing fool or troll barging in to start up the same old arguments about "AI"

Reminds me in some ways of the bad old days of vim/emacs or brace style flamewars in every corner of tech spaces, except that it doesn't feel as arbitrary.