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The only local jobs a data center will create are some security jobs (contracted to a national security services company) and a small handful of folks on call to handle any emergencies. Data centers do not create local jobs.

put on an fbi watchlist because i failed to praise the reintroduction of leaded gasoline

put on an fbi watchlist because i failed to praise the reintroduction of leaded gasoline

i resent how every time i do an internet search for something now the browser takes a guess at explaining what i am searching for at me. i know what i am looking for actually, do not presume i need it explained, how insulting

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An excellent argument not just against ChatGPT, but in favor of human translators

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

"Hey teachers, save time by letting AI do all this tedious teacher stuff for you!" "Hey management, save money by getting rid of human teachers because AI can do all that stuff for you!" Teachers won't be in the room for the second conversation. Expect a slowly building wave that gains steam.

"The AI companies have stolen our work not so that people might enjoy it illegally, but so that the AI companies themselves can grind it into profitable sludge." defector.com/if-the-thiev...

Nope. We're done. We are going to back to a text only internet. Y'all had images and sounds and fucked it up too bad. We're going gopher mode. We're getting gemini pilled. You're going to learn to use telnet and like it. You have one movie, it's pretty good.

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

I've referred to this lecture before but there's another absolute gem: a student HAS to become vulnerable to learn because you are trying to do something before you know what you are doing, or even when you have done it. But that vulnerability is uncomfortable. This is where AI sneaks in today. 1/

wrote about techno-optimism in the midst of the AI tech bubble, the lack of profits or even strong revenues in the "AI economy," weak adoption signals, revisionist history, and the eagerness to fall for hype coverage open.substack.com/pub/thetechb...

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

In addition to the presumptuousness, these summations read like notes aliens are taking about the inhabitants of a human zoo

[does literally no work to produce “content”] everyone else is lazy

Starting to regret inventing the podcast

“With companies like Coinbase, Shopify, and Duolingo now mandating AI use for their workers, this issue is not only creating way more security vulnerabilities, but also creating more work for those tasked with fixing the issues.”

“Today’s design trajectory aims to erase the interface altogether, replacing it with conversation under surveillance—mechanized eavesdropping dressed up as dialogue.”

frankly, it still seems like the only job AI replaces is idea guys who don't know how to make things and the investor class is just frothing at the mouth for it because they're all idea guys who don't know how to make things.

More than anything we didn’t need a new label for “build government capacity to create public goods and solve societal problems,” to the rest of the world that’s just what government is for. Labeling it “abundance” and claiming all we need is zoning reform and AI is a nothing idea.

we move closer to this becoming reality every day

kentucky route zero - a game that if it were a novel would have 100 pages of footnotes

Eurorack: What if computer music but unaffordable, and … more difficult? 🤔

Local man embraces fascism.

Something I didn't get to say yesterday: We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.

It has been really interesting to attend UNESCO's Digital Learning Week (though unfortunately I'm not able to stick around). My public lecture from yesterday can be found here: www.youtube.com/live/l-OWi6V... >>

i don’t have any suggestions for this other than the moderator should be glados from portal

Been thinking a lot about Fort Sheridan, north of Chicago. It was built on land donated by Chicago's wealthy elite to have a nearby army base so troops would be around to break strikes and respond to labor unrest. Sheridan Road existed in large part to transport troops to Chicago's south side.

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

sequester them like monks, imo. there should be some kind of sacrifice commensurate with the power you’re granted

genAI is really trying to end language by stripping it of all meaning. Inherently fascist enterprise, period.

case study of how a non-meaningful tweak to a prompt can result in dangerously wrong output. Search A: prompt has typos in “association” & “blood clots.” AI output has medical misinfo (Yaz&Yasmin ARE NOT drospirenone-only). Search B: same words, same order, correct spelling. Output factually correct

so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!

This thread is exactly how I feel about genAI. Completely turned off by it on all artistic, intellectual and moral levels. I have no interest in anything it can say or generate. It is anti-human.

AI's best use case will always be scams. It's scamtech, top to bottom. Everything about it is crooked. Its bedrock is theft and its legacy is the destruction of the environment, both physical and virtual. Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying. "I wrote this." "I created this."

Can’t wait to joke with my friends about bespoke movies none of them has seen. Or go to the con where everyone has seen a different movie and nobody knows what the fuck anyone else is talking about or whatever thing these fucking idiots don’t understand about shared experience.

LLM truthers keep trying different ways of saying "But how do we KNOW that using statistical regression to create a string of tokens that resemble an answer to a prompt is not the same thing as actual thought, though?" And the answer is always: because it isn't.

I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.

There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with: “What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”

"But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

ngl I kind of think Sam Altman should be tried criminally? is that … feasible?

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

If you're a translator pissed off about the impacts of AI, our members in the NWU Translators Organizing Committee are building collective power among literary translators as workers whose creative labor deserves to be materially valued. Check them out! nwu.org/chapters/toc

it's not the 'enjoy the having made,' it's 'want to be known as having made,' which is why plagiarists have been doing this longer than the plagiarism machine automated it.