art isnt better or worse because it looks good. Art is good because it is a from of expression. Youre saying something with it. Doing something with it. Making it look pretty is just the frosting on the cake, not the actual sugar, flour, eggs and stiring and baking that went into it.

The only work you create with AI will only and can only be mathematically average. Can that average be good? yes, if the average of the dataset pushes that way. But its still average. Its nothing new, or unique, its just the same cookie cutter slop. AI doesnt help you grow. What helps you grow

AI doesnt improve creative processes, it hinders them because all it will improve is the speed at which you can push out slop and mediocrity. It doesnt help you get better because AI uses the most common and generic results it can find.

the audacity to even think this would even work "as one creator(ur not a creator, youre a traitorous hack at best) to another, have you given putting your hand in a woodchipper a try? have you considered how your hand in a woodchipper would improve your creative process!?"

AI to make the prompts to fix it for you. You started trying to use it to improve your workflow and you just end up replacing your workflow. And then at that point, why should I care about your work if you dont care enough to do it yourself, when I could just easily take the AI bot myself and do it

but the last screenshot there is another thing too; you use just a tiny bit of AI you use it to fix something up a bit then you hit the next roadblock you use AI to fix that because its easy then the next roadblock Then the next and then youre just using AI to do all of it. Youre even using

We give no quarter to people who outsource their OPINION PIECES to the robots.

These people need to be shunned and banished from universities. Professor used AI to write an op-ed about *academic integrity* (it has since been retracted by the original publisher)

Fuck this all the way to the lava pit She said: “I really do feel that it’s allowed me to focus more of my time and energy on what really matters, which is the ideas, the thinking … rather than spending a lot of my time writing sentences from scratch.” Full article ⬇️⬇️⬇️

AI shills talk about it the same way rapists talk about rape: "It's inevitable." "Just let it happen." "Stop fighting back." "We don't care if you don't want it." "We'll take it against your will." "Why are you fighting back?" "How dare you fight back?" Once you see that, you can't unsee it.

I think we are rapidly approaching a point where AI needs to be actively boycotted and heavily regulated. Not just to protect good jobs, but to protect the environment, to protect against rising energy costs, and to protect the species.

It is time for the intellectual counter revolution against AI. It is lousy, sloppy, unimaginative, and incredibly lazy. It is optimized for profit and quick satisfaction. It is damaging to the environment. It will destroy millions of good jobs. It will destroy us.

These tech bastards are going to destroy everything!

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I do not want it in a house. I do not want it with a mouse. I do not want it here or there. I do not want it anywhere. I do not want AI and Spam. I do not want them, Evil-Tree-I-Am.

i don't want it now i don't want it when it looks better i don't want it even though celebs shill for it i don't want it despite the billions spent to push it i don't want to look at it, read it, talk to it, deal with it i just don't want to interface with it in any way, simple as

Samuel Alito hit by new scandal as son found secretly working for Trump's Treasury: report

what a national humiliation in a series of national humiliations

#MorningVibe Here’s to the wild women with teeth. May we never be suppressed into those who stop using our voices. 💖

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Bloomberg article - data centers create electrical oscillations that can cause house/appliance fires even miles from the facility. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The more we learn about data centers, the less we find to love: www.techradar.com/pro/arizona-...

remember when you used to learn this information quietly and at the age of roughly eleven

Key point—and what most, incl. journalists, still miss: #WealthTax isn’t about raising revenue. That’s a side effect. Its real purpose is dismantling billionaire hoards—the concentrated wealth at the root of housing crises, broken services, captured governments, and the erosion of democracy itself.

The White House is requiring all government-issued phones to have an app installed featuring a constant drip of praise for the president and prewritten messages of adoration. 🧵 www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-...

Why? Why? Why? White House has new app to spread its propaganda, in its words give “unfiltered” access to “key priorities,” “historic moments” and “policy breakthroughs.” White House telling agencies to install app on government phones of federal employees. 1/2 🧵 www.govexec.com/management/2...

There are a lot of scientific uses for ML models where the black box is navigable, but the real concern is that most of the people who are working on the commercial LLMs right now have zero interest in actual science, and a lot of interest in selling a product now

it is terrifying how so many people just assume they can sweet talk the models to giving them more accurate information because the models lack intent and any regard for truth or lies and this is somehow not a dealbreaker for many people who know this isn't the case, but here we are

And further: maybe the way we have organized these things is the part that's broken if we can't be assed to fucking access any of it. And NONE of this needs huge data centers.

Don't start me on "write boilerplate." Why do you not simply have boilerplate? Do you not have prewritten things banked for your job that apparently needed prewritten things banked? All I'm hearing is "no one's done the actual job in decades."

I think it's fascinating that even the one use case for LLMs (semantic search of internal documents for relevancy) is running into the fact that the machine just makes shit up constantly and lies and no one seems bothered by a glorified search engine lying to you about the results of your search

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Reminded of someone trying to "train" LLMs to do "sorting", to prove LLMs can "solve problems". Not only a) are LLMs not reliable, but also b) sorting is a computationally easy to solve task, c) we have many efficient algorithms for it, and d) LLMs unnecessarily bloat the resource consumption.

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

In my experience, arrogance and ignorance are fairly typical pre-existing conditions for those most enthusiastic about AI.

There are no short cuts to this sort of knowledge. There should be no short cuts to knowledge at all. AI makes us arrogant and stupid.

I’m just floored by the contempt than many in tech have for the humanities. They don’t even try to understand or appreciate what it is we do before arrogantly assuming they can do it better with a non-human machine.

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Better to make actual mistakes by hand than to let a computer do most of the work for you .

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Do you ever just think about hiw we were told we can't have universal Healthcare because it would make too many people in the insurance industry unemployed, but meanwhile AI is allegedly going to wipe out even more jobs and we're told that's just inevitable? The Luddites were right

I don't like the technofascist stage of capitalism where technofash jack up our utilities bills then offer to pay our power bills in exchange for letting them put technofascistic computers to power homicidal chatbots in your house that will burn down your neighborhood if u try to use your microwave

Republicans can gerrymander the living hell out of red states and SCOTUS shrugs. Virginia lets voters decide directly & SCOTUS kills it anyway. Fuck this. Democrats need to stop bringing a rulebook to a knife fight & start playing by the same rules. No war was every won by the side playing fair. .

Here are the facts: People have always had and will always have abortions in all 50 states. Abortion pills are safe, effective, and have been used by millions of people. No court or politician can change either of those realities.

AOC: “If the Epstein files have such a hold on Trump & this administration that they are willing to plunge us & risk world war in order to save themselves politically - that is the definition of someone who cant make objective decisions for the American ppl”

State colleges are the single greatest source of economic mobility in America. Period. A war on public universities, through cuts to pell grants and student debt programs, through direct cuts to funding, cut off millions of Americans from economic opportunity.

Hard agree until we get to the concluding sentence. Yes, we ask kids to hard things in school because learning is hard, not because we want them give them hard experiences. But the right likes punishment.

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years