this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

every executive on the planet is flat out convinced they can replace half their employees with this shit

I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury

More ideas. We’re not going to run out of ideas but generative AI is a tool for people who don’t want to be involved in the step between idea and art. People whose own ideas will never evolve or become more complex because they don’t actually want to interact with or examine them.

interesting

The funny thing is there are absolutely traits skills and characteristics that financially super successful people have and they are: money being born into money knowing other people with money

I was one of these guys and what I watched happen was that a handful of tech companies took the work of all those free software evangelists and built trillion dollar monopolies on top of it while the free software creators got nothing and went broke.

the real problem with education is how to funnel the salaries of millions of actual teachers into the pockets of a few oligarchs

As was true with the translators I heard from in an earlier edition, copywriters never felt that they were being replaced because the AI's work was better. It was almost always worse. It was simply cheaper and faster, and deemed "good enough" by clients.

Time Magazine person of the year is a bunch of ai slop peddlers. I've got a very specific beef with how this trash billionaire mouthpiece rag is stealing the valor of real American heroes to promote these rapacious techbro douchebags.

🚨SCOOP: Google gave lawmakers gifts up to $2,000 to attend a secret perk-filled summit touting AI & data centers as lawmakers consider AI dereg & data center subsidies, according to documents reviewed by @levernews.com. Lawmakers got hotel rooms costing up to $500 per night & a Wrigley Field party.

Artificial Intelligence According to Marx #Marxism #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

I think the coded language most ignored is how the right uses “inefficiency” to mean “things not yet being profit maximized by private equity” rather than “running smoothly with minimal waste”

not in denial but in open rebellion-that’s the way

it's as if there's contempt for people who experienced the past, a sense that it isn't fair—generative AI works to abolish the possibility of idiosyncratic experiences. No one has to be jealous of people who "were really there" because "really there"-ness will have been eliminated from all media

I feel the clients now using GenAI to do stuff and going "good enough" when they used to nitpick at every last detail is due to them finding out all those nit picky changes take time and work they cant be bothered to put in.

Both the "Continue" button and the "Try it now" button do *the same thing* in what is the clearest example of a dark pattern I've ever seen. Imagine someone is getting metrics about the "number of Google Docs users who are using AI" and all the numbers are total bullshit.

should start an account called sgtcheddar365 and post about how electronic fuel injection is woke until a 2028 dem hopeful follows me

There has never been a better time in all of human history to be extremely stupid.

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What makes me angriest about the fake AI videos where people yell at ICE is that there’s a million actual videos, there’s actual priests being pelted with pepper balls, it’s just that the real priest didn’t say “we worship the real God not your ORANGE one” so he wasn’t quippy enough

remember when you'd see weird pics online and look at em like, Wow why would anyone take the time to make this? it's not about A Meme, it's the death of expression and how cheerfully accepting it as a bygone conclusion, to the point that Making things no longer even occurs to you, is deeply pathetic

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Framing schoolchildren as the cybersecurity threats from AI use in schools is really something "As students gain access to AI tools for learning and research, they can inadvertently introduce security risks" Not the global tech firms, the edtech suppliers? No. The kids edexec.co.uk/the-ai-secur...

This article asks, "whether this is open to abuse", but imo, the very existence and implementation of this tech *IS* abuse. No matter how "restricted" it is. No matter how little an employer uses it. This is a level of surveillance that is inherently abusive.

This technology that people in school administrations and higher education are demanding everyone get behind because it's "the future" and "we just have to accept it," which is, nfn, the language of abuse.

it’s 2042. i’m exchanging 7 trillion beastcoins for half a loaf of bread. during id verification my beast-rictus is insufficiently convincing and i’m shot dead on the spot by a security drone

A """funny""" thing I've noticed is that if you see a buckwild and totally made up claim on Reddit and then search that claim on Google, trying to source it, the Gemini AI summary will be like "oh, yeah, that totally happened, and my source is that three hour old Reddit thread you were just reading"

beastbank bagholder in 2026: what the fuck i didn't even know an IRA could have a 'mold problem' what does that even mean where's my money stans in reply: It's normal for banks to lose money from water damage. You're picking on Mr Beast because you hate charity and love being poor

"According to our analysis, reasoning models use, on average, 100 times more energy than models with no reasoning capabilities (or with reasoning turned off)" Good new analysis of how 'reasoning' mode in chatbots consumes a fairly massive amount more energy than normal mode

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?

It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

The AI apocalypse continues. The amount of collateral damage from AI is truly staggering. This is not likely to end well.

Yeah, sorry, dude, but “selecting embryos for genetic advantage” is eugenics. Sorry you missed that memo. A century ago, the tools available to select embryos for advantage was sterilize or murder undesirables. The tools have advanced. The desires haven’t. Still bad! SubtweetAlertSystem

It’s that time of year: what was the piece of writing about AI that stuck with you the most this year, pop press or academic? A few of mine in the thread. ⬇️

Younger people who didn't witness it cannot fathom the hype around the Segway. Every news station agreed it would revolutionize the entire social fabric of the Earth. That all future humans would divide history between the savage days of the past, and the soon to be new era of zoom zoom scoot scoot.

this is wild

I ended up drafting an email that didn't really lean on research specific to grade school education, but expressed my concerns in the most basic terms. I removed the personal details and have shared it as a template here for folks who might find it useful: bit.ly/TeacherEmail...

NEW VIDEO: Big business is a death cult worshipping a many-faced Techno God. In an industry full of takers who want to eradicate the makers, so-called AI promises a nonsensical fantasy where games are made for free and sold to a world of laid off former workers. It is unhinged. youtu.be/xcB_kqpYNhc

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it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

For the past six weeks, an AI Facebook account has been pulling my history posts on Instagram and slopping out new captions, so I’ve been feeding it poison pills and its followers are having meltdowns in the comments. It’s been pretty spectacular.

Capitalists absolutely understand class war. Tech isn’t a way for them to improve or even change the world. It’s merely another gun they can put to the heads of the working class to demand more.

important/depressing thread

Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

If you would like to embrace Weizenbaum Thought, the Internet Archive is one of the only convenient ways to read "Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation," which is criminally out of print archive.org/details/comp...

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.