My speaker notes & slides from today's panel on 'Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education', co-organised with the Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU). The full recording, slides and resources will be available soon via the CJUU site. danmcquillan.org/resisting_ge...

An odd proposal: "llms.txt" web standard using plain text summaries of webpages to fix that LLMs are really bad at searching web pages. What happened to that thing we used previously to search the internet? That seemed to do a pretty good job of searching text. llmstxt.org

Slop Evader: Search the internet before AI. By @tega.bsky.social tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader

Explicitly opting out of MLCommons Safety benchmark (ailuminate.mlcommons.org/benchmarks/g...) for LLMs seems like a pretty big regulator red flag 🙈 * xAI - Grok-3-Preview * Tencent - Hunyuan-TurboS * NVIDIA - Llama 3.3 49b Knowing LLMs scores on Child Sexual Exploitation is clearly for public good

I'm looking at the UK Medicines Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency use of #AI. They have 2 AI tools & one (GMP) uses an LLM (fallback if visual NN fails). They also state "most advanced LLMs cannot be relied on to generate accurate information consistently" Any suggestion which LLM they use?

Is there any evidence or research on datacentres having economic benefits? Specifically for AI they appear like giant funnels flowing capital to US companies, forming irreversible dependencies on tax shy BigTech while destroying workers jobs and rights.

As Microsoft’s emissions jump 30% Microsoft’s CEO says AIs intense energy usage is worth it for the “potential benefits” in healthcare, public services, and business productivity. Also for picking his outfit. Imaginary benefits bought with real harms.

I will be in Linz all week for Ars Electronica. Very happy to meet and chat, always interested in new collaborations. Most of my upcoming work is around resisting AI, corrupting LLMs, disabled fantasy and TTRPGs/games as forms of advocacy & resistance

The most concrete action you can take in Resisting AI is protesting the building of new data centres. The harm is clear “The Greater London Authority has told developers that new housing projects in West London could be banned till 2035, because data centers have taken all the electricity capacity.”

Accidentally came across the DuckDuckGo easter egg when you search for "hydra". I miss the silly internet.

Happy to announce that our role-playing game “CripShip: Disability saves society from BigTech” has won an honorary mention at this year's Prix Ars Electronica awards in the Artificial Life and Intelligence category. 🥲 calls.ars.electronica.art/2025/prix/wi... #TTRPG

I would say many Role-play games approach disability solely as an accessibility issue and hence try to erase disability rather than embrace it as a culture and identity in game. Accessibility is good, but even if I can access your game, I’m still a disabled person unable to play a disabled fantasy

Well, well, well, responsible AI you say? Google has been found to under-report its emissions. Since 2019 their emission have risen 1,515%! And when was the biggest jump? Why in the most recent year of course because of AI. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

UK government spending at least $1.2B for 12 F-35A jets while in the same breath attempting to push disability people into poverty. The current w̶e̶l̶f̶a̶r̶e̶ military system is "simply unsustainable".

Q&A on AI and Disability - sharing the notes I made for an interview, in which I was trying to challenge the disability-washing of AI. danmcquillan.org/ai_disabilty...

UK GP surgeries are switching to text based triage for booking appointments. (TotalTriage by Accurx). Has anyone investigated if LLMs are involved this pipeline? Do we have protections or visibility if they start to use LLMs? Accurx does partner with AI companies around transcribing medical notes.

It was a joy speaking directly to creators putting so much love and hard work into tabletop role-playing games at #UKGE. Humans designing, writing & drawing and getting paid for their awesome work.

After rediscovering TTRPGS most tech based Immersive experiences feel less. The transition feels like a lifetime of only watching movies and then going to your first theatre performance & seeing actual humans sweat on a stage. Tech allows new things but it does obscure, old, brilliant, human things.

We need more energy for AI so we can use AI to deal with damage of more energy.💀🔁 institute.global/insights/cli... "Energy demand fuelled by economic development, energy consumption is rising to support expanding AI systems" "We must use AI and other innovations to decarbonise smarter and faster"

We cannot tax US companies to compensate the creators of the content they consumed in training, so we tax UK consumers of the internet because it avoids optics of taxing tech, they cannot escape it & the internet is generative AI. 🦇💩 from Tony Blair Institute. institute.global/insights/tec...

Seeing BigTech companies presenting AI as an unstoppable force that can help marginalised communities, backed up by academics falling over themselves for BigTech grants to increase trust in AI, makes me feel very disappointed with a lot of humans.

Thinking on what LLMs erase. Layout & whitespace, emptiness in text is less valued than letters and words. I cannot find an LLM that can correctly generate the layout of Lewis Carroll's Mouse tale poem. The whitespace is the most important part of the poem but an LLM can only value the words.

Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic by Allison Parrish. opentranscripts.org/transcript/p...

People’s Tech For People’s Power. A guide to digital self defense & empowerment by Michael Kwet: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

How feasible it is to poison the training data of commercial LLMs? An effective form of resistance to #AI or just an expression of dissent? art.josephwilk.net/words/poison...

Waiting for something to fill the emptiness inside youtu.be/AhT0q3611Aw?...

UKs "AI Safety Institute" becomes the "AI Security Institute" because... * AI cannot be done safely? * Sellout to Anthropic: joint Memorandum of Understanding signed with the UK Gov? * Peter Thiel's *cannot be released* discussions with Britain's investment minister? * NHS contracts with Palantir?

print("Why do Disabled... [Microsoft CoPilot] people have to be so loud?") *sigh* Maybe it's the systemic inequality.

Circling. #art

Yikes, I think this might be what you call "not consumer ready". gemini.google.com/share/6d141b...

"AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament ‘false starts". www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

When a LLM gives suggestions for an email, how much influence does the ENRON 600k emails dataset have? In the same way Xerox offices defined the metaphors used to explain GUI Operating Systems, does ENRON's culture define what an email becomes.

"Annountierres" Messy machine precision making collapsing op-art, optical illusions & illusions of machines + bodies. 🖼 Canvas: 26"x26" 🎨 Paint: Acrylic

📖 Digital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival by Michael Kwet www.plutobooks.com/978074534986... A pretty devastating take down of BigTech, along with critique of some challenging it. Probably the strongest argument against AI I’ve read.

"On Second Thought, Let’s Not Think Step by Step! Bias and Toxicity in Zero-Shot Reasoning": arxiv.org/pdf/2212.08061 "we demonstrate that zero-shot CoT consistently produces undesirable biases and toxicity" Further evidence LLMs should having nothing to do with socially important tasks (🇬🇧Gov 👀)

CripShip: Disability Saves Society from Bigtech with @josephwilk.bsky.social - 24th March

CripShip: A revolt against #AI, where #Disability saves society from big tech: art.josephwilk.net/projects/cri... A tabletop roleplaying game where play teaches breaking LLMs in the real world. Inspired by disabled people destroying systems of power & building new worlds from disabled imagination.

Generative #AI for video has even worse representation of Disability than Hollywood. Quite a feat.

The Value Systems of Commercial LLMs art.josephwilk.net/projects/val... Exploring how LLMs respond to issues around Ableism, Disability Justice, Environmental impact of AI & AI Limitations. #AI #LLMs #Disability

Examining LLMs (Llamas3) representation of Ableism through rating how ableist words and made-up words are: art.josephwilk.net/projects/llm... #AI #LLMs #Disability

The Ideology of Virtual Bodies. A talk I gave at PMStudioUK about VR, Accessibility and bodies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr3_...

Wrong move. The values of the private rental market. Built from 1 month of rental properties collected within Greater London. art.josephwilk.net/projects/wro...

The Medical Gaze / 2023. An interactive gazing installation, cut from prestigious lithographs of doctors in the historical medical archive of the Wellcome Trust Collection. A perspective on the historical and still prevalent dehumanising medical gaze. art.josephwilk.net/projects/med...