@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante Me

@_elena I recommend @gerrymcgovern for all things environmental footprint of data centres, working conditions in AI and more.

@_elena I’d put myself on the list, giving regular talks and presentations at conferences and user groups.

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante
am not in any way connected to work that involved #NoAI but i am and try to vocalize my vehement #FUCKAI vibes

@_elena

I hate LLM powered genAI because of how it was developed, why it was released, and how much environmental damage it causes. I hate the racism, sexism, and classism built into it. I hate how much the people funding it and championing it deride and belittle human creativity. I hate how they humanize a statistical token prediction engine while simultaneously demuhanizing actual people.

Other types of "AI" are not burdened with the same existential baggage even if they are used for the same types of war crimes. Machine learning, expert systems, neutral networks, all that other "AI" didn't take exploitation to the same level genAI has. They were always biased. That's documented. But the scale and the speed of genAI, the money being burned just as much as the fossil field, is almost unprecedented. Bitcoin and NFTs couldn't do it, but this bubble just might accelerate us over enough climate tipping points that we kill ourselves and 90% of the rest of all life. We are an extinction level event thanks to genAI.

@_elena Hi, I do that.

But also @glyph, @baldur and @tante are some of my top recs (other than the ones you mentioned) these days.

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante

👋🏼

More or less for the general public: https://olivia.science/before

For academics: https://scholar.social/@olivia/115157822712377866

And our open letter cc @Iris: https://openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e?limit=0

@_elena I’m anti LLM, but I’d hardly consider myself worth listening to…

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante you should add to the list @crowgirl

@_elena i find @baldur very insightful and just a pleasure to read; there's @PavelASamsonov, though he's more active on bluesky, and of course there's our very own @davidgerard, though he's an australian in britain, and thus an acquired taste.

@_elena can't see all the replies but definitely also @olivia @Iris @Felienne — e.g. https://zenodo.org/records/17065099

@_elena o/

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante

@baldur is great on software in general and a cogent critic of LLMadness

@_elena 👋

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante if you search my posts for 'so ai is going great' i post a ton of horror stories

@_elena especially for the environment but also other aspects connected to that: @gerrymcgovern who also wrote this book: https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/99th-day/

#LLM #AI #NoAI #AISlop

@_elena I publicly crash out against it about once a month if that’s your cup of tea 🤣

https://mastodon.social/@dimitribouniol/116210058595372593

@_elena The Author of "Resisting AI" @danmcquillan

@_elena @mapache
And @davidrevoy if no-one else has said that yet

@_elena @mapache
Me, when the occasion arises 😄 A sampling...
https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/114929904096819843 https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/115250704462263715 https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/115901366483721125 https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/116000100388648367 https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/116192364719763321 https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/116207919954310753

@_elena KarlBode@masto.ai

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante

me :)

@_elena I'm not really pushing it with lots of written text, but I am going to put the fox among the chickens in a closing keynote I'm giving on Friday.

@_elena

I do not post, follow those who do, nor boost slop.

I'm about to exit the tech industry after almost 30yrs because it's gone to utter dogshit... I've seen behind the curtains and I understand what they do with the data they collect... I try to discourage everyone from using any corpo owned platform... not just AI ones.

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante

I'm just a random person on the fediverse, but I, too, am against stochastic parrots automating Dunning-Kruger syndrome at the cost of culture and ecology!

Also you should add @davidrevoy

I don't know him either, but his #pepperandcarrot webcomic is making hilariously short work of the token pachinko fraud festival currently gripping markets.

@_elena Would you be willing to share your list? :-)

#NoAI

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116206874904164848

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante

I'm sure you have seen this thread, and apologies if someone else has mentioned it here...

https://mastodon.online/@Gargron@mastodon.social/116206875533187784

@_elena

We could encourage people to use a consistent hashtag to anchor a community.

Your #NoAI is fine, if read as "there is no AI"

@_elena

Besides the accounts already mentioned, this on might be interesting:

@asrg "The Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group (ASRG) is a conspiratorial, practice-led research framework focused on the intersection of culture, politics, and technology."

@_elena

Just about everyone with a brain, WE all hope. Most can tell those pushing the slop are extremely irresponsible.

It's how dystopian movies begin repeating dystopian history

@_elena @baldur @danmcquillan both good follows on this

@_elena

@crowgirl from https://stopgenai.com/

@_elena me! I believe in the human led Renaissance occurring now #noAi

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante me to Elena. I feel like I'm actively swatting the "use ai now" flies. Would love to be kept in the loop of #NoAi

A few more that leap to mind: @ali, who runs the AI Skeptics Reading Group, and @danmcquillan, author of Resisting AI.

@_elena putting humility aside, I can recommend myself as researcher and hacktivist, as a founding member of the collective Socialini.it (digital literacy workshops) and as the author of "Scritture digitali. Dai social media all'IA e all'editing genetico" (Meltemi, 2025), and as the translator of the Italian edition of "The AI Con" by @emilymbender and @alex which is going to be published on March 17 as "L'inganno dell'intelligenza artificiale. Come difenderci da Big Tech e costruire il futuro che vogliamo" (Fazi Editore). 🙂

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante
👉 @tunubesecamirio

@_elena
I suppose quitting my job over it yesterday and being quite vocal about it, especially over the last two days could qualify me 😅 I have a history of being actively anti-AI to the point of writing my transcripts and timecode them by hand 🫠

@_elena May I nominate myself? I have been using the hashtag #AITeaParty for my efforts to not use it directly or indirectly. I've also blogged yesterday about my depressing experience in going to my first in person developer meeting in years.

https://evilgeniuschronicles.org/posts/2026/03/10/just-have-claude-code-it/