Do Not Talk To Me About "AI"
I had some cards printed up.
These are unlikely to change any minds, but they will defintely shorten some incredibly tedious conversations at the bar.
Here's a PDF if you'd like some of your own.
https://jwz.org/b/yk-o
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@jwz oh those are absolutely fantastic
Crazy how most of the time I'll post about, like, the ICE torture taser gloves, and people will comment, sometimes their jokes won't land but clearly we're on the same horrified page. Then something like my "AI" post escapes confinement and these absolute lunatics show up saying taser torture gloves are good actually if you use them locally, I need to seek a moderate middle ground with the taser torture gloves, taser torture or get left behind, I don't know who the Luddites were. Wild.
As with any post that escapes containment, the race is now on to see who can be the most completely insufferable:
• Butthurt Slopfondlers
• Mastodon HOA Alt Text Scolds https://jwz.org/b/ykho
@jwz alt text is worth it though (unless you are legit in urgent hurry), I need to blog this
@codinghorror @jwz He could have used AI to generate the alt text if he was in such a hurry.
@jwz May I suggest an alt ? Adding it to the image would make it accessible to everyone.
Two stacks of red cards with white writing.
On the front : Do not talk to me about "AI"
In a smaller font : you make me long for the sweet embrace of death.On the back :
By using AI, you have given a pass to :
- The staggering climate and ecological impact
- The outright attack on labor by capital
- The systemic disregard of consent
- The basis in wholesale theft and plagiarism
- The assault on the very concept of objective truth
- The enrichment of the most cringe billionaire fascist motherfuckers the world has ever seen
There is no ethical use of AI
If you ignore all of that, you are trying to negotiate what level of harm to others you find acceptable for your personal, selfish benefit. You advance the agenda of these hollow-eyed, joyless money-ghouls who resent art, creativity, and life itself.
The machine is disgusting and must be destroyed.
@orange_lux @jwz Holy shit. This whole thread completely turned my respect for Jamie around. I've been a fan of his writing and projects since the early 2000s but this is such a fucking odd hill to die on. It's his hill though, so all I can do is speak out in support of your attempt to be helpful.
Jamie, I get that you despise anyone telling you how to do what you do (your fierce independence is something I admired about you), but in this case I don't feel that was what was going on. It was a suggestion, not a callout or a demand, and this is a public space that you chose to join, a space that is full of disabled folks who depend on alt-text to be able to even read a post.
Accessibility matters, you're old enough to know that, and now that I know your position on it (especially as someone who is legally blind without glasses and has a hard time reading tiny text even with them), and I have seen you punching down extremely hard and without compassion on fellow disabled folks, I don't think I can consider you someone to look up to anymore. If you've read this far, I know you will block me after if you haven't already, so I'll just say one more thing. How you choose to be known and remembered is exactly that: your choice.
@orange_lux @jwz And I just realized Jamie did this as some sort of campaign where he's obsessed with what he calls the "Mastodon HOA", i.e. people who ask for and depend on accessibility as a web standard. It's an extremely ableist position and I had no idea he was that aggressively against accessibility for Mastodon users.
There's a word for someone who joins a community with the full intent of pushing against the community's established way of doing things, then pretends to be butthurt when called out on it. Jamie has zero respect for the community and according to his other posts, he started this thread intentionally as a honeypot to find people to block. It's trollish behavior and absolutely not something I expected out of anyone, especially him.
HIs HOA analogy is completely flawed as well. I hate HOAs and I will never own a house or rent an apartment that has one. But a community is not an HOA; there's no board of directors here, nor a community leader; we're all a bunch of folks who have common interests and wish to have a nice place to talk about them. That community includes disabled folks, so we all work together to make it an easier place for those folks, just as we make it a welcoming place for minorities of all types, folks of all genders, and so on. When someone enters the community with the intent to troll it with honeypots like this, the community responds by banding together in support of one another. It makes it easier for him to block us, but then one wonders why even be on Mastodon at all if he hates us all so much.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/02/on-blocking-mastodon-hoa-edition/
@kaidenshi @jwz and, to be clear : that was not a callout.
That was a helping hand : I know it's hard to write alt texts, so I offer my time to suggest them when I want to boost a toot.
@orange_lux @jwz And I just realized Jamie did this as some sort of campaign where he's obsessed with what he calls the "Mastodon HOA", i.e. people who ask for and depend on accessibility as a web standard. It's an extremely ableist position and I had no idea he was that aggressively against accessibility for Mastodon users.
There's a word for someone who joins a community with the full intent of pushing against the community's established way of doing things, then pretends to be butthurt when called out on it. Jamie has zero respect for the community and according to his other posts, he started this thread intentionally as a honeypot to find people to block. It's trollish behavior and absolutely not something I expected out of anyone, especially him.
HIs HOA analogy is completely flawed as well. I hate HOAs and I will never own a house or rent an apartment that has one. But a community is not an HOA; there's no board of directors here, nor a community leader; we're all a bunch of folks who have common interests and wish to have a nice place to talk about them. That community includes disabled folks, so we all work together to make it an easier place for those folks, just as we make it a welcoming place for minorities of all types, folks of all genders, and so on. When someone enters the community with the intent to troll it with honeypots like this, the community responds by banding together in support of one another. It makes it easier for him to block us, but then one wonders why even be on Mastodon at all if he hates us all so much.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/02/on-blocking-mastodon-hoa-edition/
@jwz *chef's kiss*
Need to cook up some or my own that say things along the line of "if I ever had respect for you, that has past", or "you having goven me carte blance to rant about AI at you for 30 minutes straight", or "you sound gullible, and if you don't think AI is a bubble, I have some tulip bulb futures to srll you"
@haihappen @jwz one of the greatest lines I have ever heard in my life was “please stop while I can still think less of you.”
@jwz I love it. Now I need to translate it to Spanish
@CorioPsicologia
Hey, I had the same idea! Please share if you do.
@jwz
@CorioPsicologia
A Spanish version is now available here:
https://blog.informaticalibremx.net/files/aicards_es.pdf
@jwz
@SeiriosB @CorioPsicologia Thank you for your service!
Though... I ran this past a native Spanish speaker and we question your translations of "cringe" and "motherfuckers".
@jwz I wish I could mind dump this whole thing onto a person having a phone conversation with me. Every time lately that I’m talking to a customer service person and mention how “I get it, software’s weird, I work in software” they start going on a tangent about their AI agents 😱
@jwz "My Do Not Talk To Me About AI card has people asking me a lot of questions already answered by my card"
