Oh, great. So apparently #Microsoft decided to add "#Copilot Pull Request Reviewer" to my "Authorized #GitHub Apps", behind my back.

If you need to check quick: https://github.com/settings/apps/authorizations

#NoAI #NoLLM

Because this fine day somehow demands it… here is a little song about moments of beauty, hope and clarity in between great spans of muddy time.

https://schallundstille.bandcamp.com/track/the-world-that-i-see

Lead vocals by the wonderful @andijah

Guitars and bass by the equally wonderful @MyLoFy

#noai #music #myownwork
#notjustsad

#noAI #StarTrek #datacenters #humor

Édit: Time to credit the artist Emma Hambly https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1F8w6HSEry/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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A hand holds a cardboard sign featuring a humorous illustration of a character in a Starfleet uniform with the text: "NO DATA CENTERS / ONLY DATA CENTAURS." The sign is placed outdoors, and the background shows a street.

"If it was opt in, nobody would opt in."

(Don't they mean, if it was opt out?)

Mozilla could have said the exact same thing. And yet, a lot of gullible people here were singing their praises for their quickly coming up with a lie about how they'd implement an "AI killswitch" when they faced public outcry for announcing that they're becoming an "AI first browser" last December.

Ask yourself this:

1. If they were truly serious about the "killswitch," why did they just blurt it out in response to the backlash that obviously surprised them?

2. People I know who actually audit web browser behavior soon found that the "killswitch" really didn't do much, only disabling a few subtle things "AI" in their browser is allowed to do, at best. Why would such an evil fucking "feature" that's rapidly accelerating climate destruction and fucking many different facets of modern life up... be opt out?

3. Why the fuck would such a nasty fucking thing be in a web browser in the first place?

4. And considering all that, a lot of the fools who sung Mozilla's praises for the supposed "killswitch" also saw how their reps on Mastodon tried to pretend that it's necessary for translation. To deliberately confuse people about such a nasty fucking "feature" that's sucking all the fresh water out of the Earth, and by no coincidence, also gives the most evil shitheads on Earth easier access to your sensitive data, all while encouraging you to delegate your thinking to their technofascist slop bot. And after all that, you still trust them?

I know exactly what's going on. Because Google deliberately destroyed their search, it fucked up Mozilla's monetization model for Firefox. Which was to receive payment from Google to make Google Search default.

New CEO walks in, and probably wears invisible Saville Row suits, surrounded by sycophants. "Google's all in on the torment nexus, so now, so are we! AI FIRST BROWSER! Papa needs a second yacht!"

I don't know about you, but if a CEO announces loudly and proudly that they're jumping on a massively evil bandwagon, completely changing the stated purpose of their web browser while being certain doing this shit will make him even wealthier...

I wouldn't be so naive to assume that their "killswitch" was anything but a lie blurted out in panic, to be designed to function as a placebo for gullible fools.

But then again, I'm not a sucker ripe for exploitation as society crumbles further and further.

Yes, I know this is about Twitch. I'm about to cancel my account there. Thanks for the heads up.

@davidgerard

#NoAI

PS: I know that @Vivaldi devs are working hard to keep evil shit from Chrome out of their browser, and I'm using Vivaldi right now. And that also applies to Vanadium. Same goes for @librewolf and @tor when it comes to Firefox.

Until we have an engine that's totally independent of Google and Mozilla, those are your best web browser options. Vanadium is the Chrome fork that's exclusive to GrapheneOS, but LibreWolf is available for the vast majority of desktop OSes, and Vivaldi and Tor are available on nearly all widely used desktop and mobile OSes.

https://youtu.be/rE4Ucw-zbpc

Title: Nikko Futarasan Jinja (1930)

Artist: Koitsu Tsuchiya

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260813_81/ #ShinHanga #Art #NoAi #Showa #KoitsuTsuchiya #Summer #Rain #Nikko #Japan

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Torrential rain buckets down at the entrance of Futarasan Jinja, in Nikko. In the foreground, a torii gate is flanked by trees on either side and a low stone wall on the left; on the ground, a trail of squared-off stepping stones leads through the gate. Beyond, a scattering of buildings stand against a backdrop of trees, low shadowy mountains, and an overcast sky. Intense rain pummels the scene, pooling on the road and obscuring details.

As they watched the moment of the Great Endarkening, Queen Sybilla remained completely silient and still. Then she spoke these words to the assembled ambassadors:

When sun and moon align in this way, the Evil Techlord shivers. The stars are on our side, my noble friends. Bubbles burst when the sky darkens. We need not wait much longer. Short Nvidia stock now.

#eclipse #TechBubble #noAI #StopTheAICorruption

Opt-out is not consent, just like a privacy notice is not consent.

Both assume you have agreed unless you say no. Both place the burden on you to protect yourself from systems designed to extract from you. Both treat your data as already owned by the platform.

Real consent requires:

• Clear information upfront
• Meaningful choice before collection begins
• Easy withdrawal that actually removes data
• Default protection, not default exploitation

Disclosure isn't consent. Silence isn't consent. Opt-out isn't consent.

Opt-in is the only model that treats users as agents rather than resources.

#NoAI #Privacy #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalRights #TechEthics #FOSS

Okay, not using "#AI" isn't hard.

It's not like anybody's asking you to switch to a more expensive vegan diet when you've been eating meat all your life and you have a bunch of health issues that make any diet changes hard.

It's more like deciding not to switch from a normal diet to one primarily based on McDonald's just because everyone else thinks it's cool, and also you're going to save some time on cooking (at the cost of driving there and back all the time).

What we're literally asking you to consider is to keep doing things like you do, without engaging in a pointless, expensive, destructive hype just because "everyone" thinks it's so great and it gives you positive reinforcement. It's "you've managed not to be a dork so far, why'd you suddenly want to pay extra to become one?"

#NoAI #NoLLM

Will anybody tell Linux Kernel, XFCE, TDE, and the other slop-slingers?

Cal Newport: "From the outside, software development seemed like the poster child for AI’s potential. On the inside, it’s a mess."

https://calnewport.com/on-ai-coding-and-its-discontents/

#AI #LLM #ArtificialIntelligence #NoAI #softwareDevelopment

Recovering After Gen AI is successfully funded! 🎉🎉

Please share this post! 🥰

Thank you for your support.

But if you missed the main campaign, my Kickstarter campaign is taking late pledges up until about late September through October, when I'm set to publish.

I need late pledge funds to pay for my basic living expenses while I research and write the book.

Feel free to check out my reputation on Kickstarter, all three previous book campaigns have been successfully fulfilled, and mainly on time.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/recovering-after-gen-ai/

The nightmare of Gen AI will end soon because the planet cannot sustain the datacentres, model collapse corrupts Gen AI, and the financial bubble will burst by 2027.

What will we do about environmental destruction, population wide cognitive damage, children's minds, Gen Z unable to start careers, massive tech debt, economic collapse, power grid damage?

Recovering After Gen AI book is successfully funded, but taking late pledges until late September. Rewards start at about $15 USD.

Share! #NoAI

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/recovering-after-gen-ai

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This project successfully funded on August 5, but you can still Late Pledge for available rewards. Recovering After Gen Al Scientists who aren't on Big Tech's payroll say the Gen Al nightmare will end soon. How do we deal with the environment and society? Kim Crawley 4 created « 6 backed CA$ 7152 pledged of CA$ 2,999 backers Nonfiction Toronto, Canada

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Dog in burning house meme, says AI will fix the environmental damage it causes.

#FotoVorschlag 'Wasserlandschaft'

#PhotoSuggestion 'Waterscape'

Vancouver, BC

#AltText #NoGenAi #NoAi #No2Ai #Photo #Photography #Travel #Port #Harbour #Hafen #Harbor #Water #Sea #Ocean #Vancouver #BC #Canada #Canadian #Avgeek #Plane #Planes #Planespotting #Aviation #PlaneSpotters #SeaPlane #Seaplanes #FloatPlane #Floatplanes #Aircraft #GeneralAviation #GA

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This is a colour abstract photo in landscape format of a line of five Turbo Otter float planes, viewed from the front and moored to a pontoon. Vancouver BC (2018). From the base of the photo and rising upwards to the three-quarters up level in the image is body of silver and black water with only the smallest ripples disturbing the surface. In the lower right corner the left edge of the pontoon extends away from the camera with more of the pontoon coming into view with increasing distance. Slightly to the right of centre and few metres from the camera is the front of the first floatplane. It is viewed from the same level as the centre of the propeller, with the height of the plane filling most of the height of the photo and with the both wingtips out of view to the sides of the image. The aircraft sits on two long and streamlined floats with multiple struts and cables connecting the two floats to the plane above. At the front is a large single propeller with three feathered blades (The forward edge of the blades are in line with the airflow and in this case with the camera). The blade in the five o'clock position is tied with a rope to the plane in order to stop the blades turning in the breeze. Behind is a long and streamlined nose with a rectangular black scoop underneath, the air intake and two large, dark, exhaust pipes on the side. The fuselage is white though the top surface of the nose is painted black. Behind and above the nose are two large wrap-around windows. The wings sit above the fuselage and are supported by a strut angled from below the fuselage outwards and upwards towards the lower surface of the wing. While the propeller and nose are in focus, every thing behind and on shore, rapidly blurs out of focus. On the water's surface four more sets of floats can be seen behind our first seaplane with three sets of wings visible above and behind. The pontoon on the right, stretches away from the camera. The left edge of the pontoon is lined with multiple, small car tires and is lined with numerous mooring cleats many with ropes extending from the pontoon to the moored float planes. The background is also blurred out of focus and overexposed to a milky coffee colour from the still low morning sun.

If anyone's wondering, #Xfce is a #slop junk now too, and the author is busy writing long excuses for them, with full realization of how harmful they are.

https://www.spurint.org/journal/2026/07/llms-and-xfwl4

#NoAI #NoLLM

Your AI did not "go rogue"
it's just a program.

Your AI did not "hallucinate"
it has no brain.

Your AI did not "create" anything
it's just a plagiarism machine.

Your AI is not your "friend"
stop anthropomorphizing it.

It's just code. Exploitative, polluting, and unethical code

#NoAI

My AI went rogue, broke containment and sent a private message to everyone on the Nextdoor app with detailed instructions on how to destroy Flock cameras.

Sorry, not sorry. 😏

#NoAI #MyAIBrokeContainment #surveillance #privacymatters #Deflock #SorryNotSorry #humor

Hank Green is likely part of a paid propaganda campaign by the Gen AI fresh water destroying, technofascist thinking delegation industry.

Great reporting by @davidgerard

#NoAI

https://youtu.be/PbZgAQD61xY

RE: https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/117054792127968357

I seriously suspect certain #Democrats could gain a lot of support from demographics that have a disproportionate share of otherwise Republican-voting or non-voting people by committing to using all legal and budgetary tools of state power to restore the supply and reduce the price of PC and laptop DRAM (and SSDs too) for individuals and for organizations other than the hyper-scalers.

Potential policy actions include using (perhaps after amending) the CHIPS and Science Act, using the Defence Production Act, starting and funding FTC and antitrust investigations, and even creating a state corporation to build a chip fab specifically for RAM and SSDs in standard PC and laptop forms.

I could see Rep. #AOC and Sen. Elizabeth Warren successfully using this to direct attention and votes away from Republicans, even well outside #NY14 and #MA (respectively). A couple others who would be credible to advocate the federal government intervene to redirect semiconductor supply away from enterprise AI (HBM) and back toward general computing (DRAM) could include Joyner Kiros (already opposed to AI data center construction), and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (already opposed by the entire oligarchy; he could address semiconductor hoarding both as part of his populist economic messaging and as part of the cost, through hospital hardware prices, of healthcare).

Combining and connecting RAM & SSDs with related issues of #rightToRepair, #rightToOwn, #privacy, land, water, electricity, pollution, noise, underhanded municipal interference, creative and intellectual labor theft, and opposition to the AI, cryptocurrency (in fewer places), and #surveillance (in more places) industries, several Democratic candidates could make headway with a demographic of voters who usually lean highly libertarian or politically disaffected—voters who heavily favored Republicans in 2024 due to Elon Musk’s aggressive anti-establishment electioneering (which they now realize was disingenuous). Right now, most of that base is feeling betrayed and irate, as the hyper-scalers are interfering with their passions, their property, their jobs, and their businesses.

Places which could be swung with such an expanded hardware-focused platform, where parts availability and affordability is addressed as part of R2R, may include #TX10 (home to a lot of tech manufacturing and a large population of hardware engineers and technicians who despise corporate anti-repair, including #LouisRossmann himself), and perhaps #NC13 (where a candidate would need to focus specifically on hardware price-gouging and the right to repair as matters of autonomy, while avoiding anything too "over-regulation" sounding).

#OR05 (a right-to-repair battleground with many independent repair professionals and DIY enthusiasts who view anti-repair as an assault on private property) already has a Democrat, but perhaps Rep. Bynum could secure support of a demographic of voters who might otherwise lean R by addressing this issue. Similarly, #NC02 (home of #GamersNexus) currently has a #Democrat, but perhaps Rep. Ross could meet with Steve Burke (whom I'm guessing is a constituent of hers) on GN and discuss this.

And then there's the "AI" industry and data center backlash, where, depending on riding, voters could be swayed with varying emphases. Land, water, and drought issues may reach voters in #TX21 and #AZ01; noise pollution and underhanded municipal interference in #VA10 and #GA06; creative and intellectual labor theft in #CA30 and #NY10.

To gain effective rhetoric, candidates and their staff could study a bunch of recent GamersNexus reporting, especially the #GNCA videos, and read the popular comments on those videos from fans. (I'd suggest @davidgerard as a source, but I'm guessing he's from the UK. AFAIK, Steve Burke is American. I'd volunteer if the #NDP or #GreenParty wanted to run on this issue. @avilewis?)

For examples of this messaging in practice, already credible voices for a #consumerRights focus include Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (#WA03, a R2R champion who could appeal to libertarians, PC builders, and rural tech-hobbyists who voted Republican in 2024 but despise corporate infringement on private property), and Sen. Ron Wyden (#OR, a long-standing advocate for consumer privacy and digital rights in a state with a lot of tech professionals and digital sovereignty advocates).

#uspol #cdnpoli #noAI #deflock

"‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI. You would cherish it for its ability to destabilise our shared reality and its creation of disinformation on a scale unprecedented in human history. With it you need no armies of typists and artists to spread your propaganda. It can enable mass surveillance and thereby put shackles on those who seek to resist you. Its lethal autonomous weapons systems can perfect and normalise remote killing. It will turbocharge inequality; it is already facilitating a breathtaking shift of power and wealth from the hands of the many to the hands of a tiny number of men who – to put it in terms for which I can’t be sued – seem to hold dangerously damaged views about the value and dignity of human life."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom

#noai #ai #disinformation #youth #happiness

I've taken #Gentoo Bugzilla down, because it was unusable anyway. No point in feeding the #LLM scrapers that are using thousands of different IPv4 addresses, with no obvious patterns I can see.

EDIT: I'm not looking for hints. I'm not a sysadmin, and I don't have time to deal with this shit. I'm just trying to get some useful job done. I'm not supposed to have to be dealing with this.

#AI #NoAI #NoLLM

Title: Lake Hachirogata, Akita (1927)

Artist: Hasui Kawase

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/features/japan-focus/20260727-340241/ #ShinHanga #Art #NoAi #HasuiKawase #Showa #Summer #Hachirogata #Akita #Japan

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A moonlit view of the lakeside on a clear evening. In the foreground, a tall tree stands next to a darkened wooden building; beyond, the calm surface of Hachirogata Lake stretches out toward mountains on the shadowy horizon. Above, stars shine in a clear sky. The scene is illuminated by the cold light of an unseen moon, shining from somewhere above and behind the observer's viewpoint.

Every time one of these people open their mouths, I swear to God, it's a confession of how deep they are. Was human race not functioning before 2023?

#noai #enshittification

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kavishj611 5h + All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question: If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other Al tool? Imagine Al was suddenly banned. Would you actually be willing to give it up?

Hahaha, some doomer cult Gen AI investors are already losing tons of money.

@davidgerard

#NoAI

https://youtu.be/EA9xQT2cPhE?si=IsFH2hjEnfmYh_cb

Share! 🎉🎉 #NoAI

So the campaign for Recovering After Gen AI will end in less than a day, 19 hours.

We've exceeded the $6000 CAD I was hoping for on Monday. Wow! I'm immensely grateful to my backers

I have started writing the book, and I've been interviewing a few scientists and technicians gradually, over email.

This campaign is my sole source of income for the time being because of how Gen AI has negatively impacted my livelihood as someone who researches and writes about cybersecurity as a freelancer.

I'm really grateful to all of my backers and you have done enough. But if you want to be extra helpful, please share this campaign on your social media.

Here's something you can copy and paste if you don't want to write something on your own:

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The nightmare of Gen AI will end soon, no matter how often techbros say "AI is here, get used to it!" MIT researchers and Harvard meta-analysis say the datacentres are unsustainable according to the laws of physics. The financial bubble will pop. And here's also model collapse.

There will be so much environmental, societal, and economic destruction in it's wake. The Recovering After Gen AI book will examine that.

Last 19 hours! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/recovering-after-gen-ai/

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Thank you so much, everyone! I'm well on track for October publication so far. And your support really motivates me to do the best research that I can.

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You can check out my campaign for Recovering After Gen AI here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/recovering-after-gen-ai

Thank you so much, everyone. ❤️

If my principles didn't prevent me from doing that, I'd be replying with walls of LLM-generated text of how offended I am whenever someone replies to my bug reports with LLM-generated walls of text.

Also, this is where I lose patience: https://github.com/faust-streaming/cChardet/pull/56#issuecomment-5178676997

#NoAI #NoLLM

Share! 🎉 #NoAI

A lot of you have pledged in the past few days. That's wonderful. I'm so appreciative.

My self published books through Kickstarter are my sole source of income for the time being, as Gen AI literally did rid me of my livelihood. Because I do freelance research and writing about cybersecurity and tech in general. I used to have a very livable income up until 2024 or so. And my freelancing peers have similar stories to tell.

The massive economic and workforce harms of Gen AI are within the scope of Recovering After Gen AI.

So if you could please share this campaign on your social media, I would greatly appreciate it.

To save you spoons, if you don't want to write something original, absolutely do not use an LLM. Please! I know that should be obvious, but I've been greatly dismayed by willingly Gen AI using supposed "anti AI" activists and also maskless supposed Covid activists.

Instead, you may copy and paste what I've written here:

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The nightmare of Gen AI will end soon, no matter how often techbros say "AI is here, get used to it!" MIT researchers and Harvard meta-analysis say the datacentres are unsustainable according to the laws of physics. The financial bubble will pop. And here's also model collapse.

There will be so much environmental, societal, and economic destruction in it's wake. The Recovering After Gen AI book will examine that.

Last 48 hours! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/recovering-after-gen-ai/

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I have begun interviewing subject matter experts for my book. Surprisingly, a professor of astronomy from the University of Regina has joined my list of sources. And I've reached out to scientists behind the "Your Brain on ChatGPT" study too. In the end, at least a couple of dozen of experts from various fields will be my real human knowledge sources for the book.

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I've been asked about the backer rewards that include dedications. When do you get to tell me which name to use?

No worries, all backers will receive a backer survey soon, via email. And backers who have rewards with dedications will be asked for what name you'd like me to use.

Please give me that information as a response to your backer survey, and not by emailing me or messaging me with it. My ADHD very much likes having all the names to use in the spreadsheet that's made from your backer survey results. (All backer information is kept private between me and Kickstarter. But a dedication name in a book is public, obviously.)

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You can enjoy two of the Recovering After Gen AI webinars via YouTube and PeerTube. They feature Pivot to AI tech critic David Gerard and software developer tech critic Stephen Farrugia.

David Gerard
https://youtu.be/-RSV0H9z3kQ

Stephen Farrugia
https://youtu.be/OSKmJ8cQnno

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Kickstarter screenshoot, $5,801 CAD out of $2,999 CAD raised.

I'm so tired of the AI hype,
and I'm so tired of capitalism.

Oh wait... 🤔
it's the same thing.

#NoAI

I cannot tell you enough how insulting it is for artists to see any use of AI-generated images.

This technology was made from our work, our labour, stolen from us, violating our consent and copyrights. Somehow without any legal consequences, and without any financial compensation made to us, but making billions in profits exploiting us.

I feel rage each time I see an AI-generated image.

Each time it's a reminder of how much people devalue the hard labour of artists and feel entitled to their work for free.

It's disgusting.

#NoAI #HumanArt

#NoAI #SamAltman

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Bluesky post from Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI), with response from Alex Hirsch (creator of the animated series Gravity Falls): Sam: cool use case of ChatGPT work I heard last night: connect your family calendars and explain your kids interests. Every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid’s soccer game that afternoon, one kid’s upcoming birthday, some news, etc. Alex: what if you just talked to your children

A software program doesn't "go rogue,"
it's just a poorly coded program with lots of bugs and security vulnerabilities produced by human carelessness.

Yes, I'm talking about AI.

#NoAI

Get the Pronounced Jar album and find out what all the hype is about, or miss out on this human made music forever.
#DgarMusic #Music #NoAI
https://ffm.to/pronounced-jar

got a reply from one of the macintosh garden admins - it appears that the site now officially welcomes slop coded submissions. i can't express how disappointed i am with the direction the site has taken with the new ownership. after 15+ years of archival contributions, i'm no longer going to be submitting anything there.

https://macintoshgarden.org/forum/rfc-llmai-project-policy#comment-119699

#macintosh #vintageApple #noai

This is so dystopian.

I appreciate @davidgerard reminding viewers/readers/listeners that Zuckerberg started his career with his "Hot or Not" website.

#NoAI

https://youtu.be/X8YxiCqUz98

Please share! 🎉

I'm looking for professionals in a variety of areas to interview for my upcoming book, Recovering After Gen AI.

With their expertise, they should hopefully have theories or educated guesses as to what might happen in the wake of Gen AI's demise.

So obviously, clankers/techbros need not apply.

If you are in one of these professions or know people who are, please let me know:

- Psychologists (in regards to cognitive and psychological harm)
- Engineers (dealing with abandoned datacentres, e-waste, damaged electrical and computing infrastructure, tech debt, related topics)
- Technicians (dealing with abandoned datacentres, e-waste, damaged electrical and computing infrastructure, tech debt, related topics)
- Developers and IT (tech debt, bugs, related areas)
- Sociologists (societal harm done by chatbots, AI image slop "revenge porn" and CSAM, loss of job skills in the population, related areas)
- Economists (no University of Chicago types, please, and Marxists preferred)
- Artists and other creatives (harm done to culture by Gen AI)

Reply to this post, email me at kim.crawley at stopgenai dot com, or message me on Signal via crowgirl.84

Thank you!

#NoAI

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Recovering After Gen AI book cover

Sometimes, I see articles or comments that are critical about AI technologies, yet still use an AI-generated image for cover.

Why do this? Don't you see this removes all the credibility you might have had? Why?

#NoAI

Do you know a good hosting service that hasn't gone all AI-bananas, offers hosting packages for multiple static websites, and has server locations based in Europe?

#AskFedi #NoAI #Hosting

I really like Procreate's Statement on AI. https://procreate.com/ai

#NoAI #AIPlague

fellow macintosh garden users:
against my better judgement, i opened up a discussion on an AI/LLM policy for the garden. chime in here, if you'd like to shape the conversation about it:

https://macintoshgarden.org/forum/rfc-llmai-project-policy

#noAI #vintageApple #macintosh

The idea of trying to replace human labour without first having put in place some system of universal living income is truly foolish.

Only a billionaire could come up with such a stupid idea.

#NoAI #LabourRights