@_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.

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am not in any way connected to work that involved #NoAI but i am and try to vocalize my vehement #FUCKAI vibes

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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

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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/

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

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