remarkably this is still a "what if ai takes everyone's job" story rather than a "what if this thing we've been pouring all our money into is bullshit" story

Some do, for sure! Some are absolutely grifters, like that lady in the article. Others are just using the slop machines for their own shit, & refusing to think too much into or about it. No group is a monolith, right.

I think they recognize it. They know. They're just hoping to trick enough other people into buying their snake oil.

I think that's one of the things that baffles me most about the slop enthusiasts; their refusal to recognize this simple fact.

IF THIS WORKED, SHE WOULDN'T NEED TO SELL THE TECHNIQUES TO YOU

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered

"[Learning] is not oriented towards immediate use and immediate disposal. Learning feels slow because it is digging a deep foundation[. I]t can withstand challenge, it inspires confidence." — @caitrionaleahy.bsky.social, Norah Campbell, @clarekelly.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Oh, it's because probably unlike Trump who is probably way too intellectually bereft, they know you might harm them, bodily. They likely struggle to sleep at night thinking of the guillotine if they are even remotely educated. It's a silver lining to an infinity of shit, but it still is what it is 😈

If this doesn't capture a good chunk of the interfamilial boomer to younger people relations, I don't know what does... Older people certainly hate us (behaviourally at least) and we're tired

I'm no world class "data sleuth" but am still comfortable saying that reading the paper very carefully is the bare minimum starting point for any useful critique of said paper.

Wikipedia editors vs. AI Slop: The volunteer army wrangling the world’s chatbots https://restofworld.org/2026/wikipedia-ai-training-regional-languages/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1770553320

"It is almost insulting to call it prompt engineering, because engineering is about making things controllable, about being precise, about measurably reducing the chance of errors and material damage."

"But just because some highly respected experts on tech and politics mapped out what looks like it might be part of a international fascist tech-billionaire conspiracy driving the entire AI industry doesn't mean-" I SAID NO! www.justice.gov/epstein 🧵5/5

Oh? "But, *insert opinion about AI based on marketing claims or anecdotal evidence here*!", you say? 🧵2/5

Awww, we'll all finally be *allowed* to OPT OUT, will we? Why thank you, @mozilla.org! Anyway, while Mozilla is still integrating "AI" into Firefox and building a worse internet - have any of you guys tried like, maybe for example @waterfox.net as an alternative? Runs so much smoother for me. 🧵1/5

...Thus, no way exists of knowing whether the earlier studies are in fact commensurate with whatever ones are under present scrutiny, or are in fact contradictory." —Allen Newell, 1973 Still an issue. 2/2

“[Our] current scientific style is abetted by our tendency …to case the results of experiments in terms of their support or refutation of various binary oppositions ...Innumerable aspects of the situations are permitted to be suppressed ... 1/2

Was reading “You can’t play 20 questions with nature” yesterday, & somewhat related. (It ended up being 2 posts due to length of the quote.) bsky.app/profile/llml...

Plus, it's killing creative industries and it's mostly awful.

Cybersecurity education has failed because no one understands that the ai caricature/ cute filters/ throwback photos or specific dances are all to get your biometrics But I’m sure saying phish smish vish has been useful for some folk

The machinic mediation of ressentiment has resulted in a fusion of social media and generative AI as the cryptocurrency of cruelty.

yeah i like this one a lot! even in relatively informal discussion "even if the statistical models were a perfectly accurate description of reality, it's perfectly useless to us humans if we can't understand them" is helpful to shift people's perspectives

The Myths We Live By by Mary Midgley

It is vitally important that universities take all necessary measures to counter the use of AI by students; force us “to think for ourselves”, for that is why we study in the first place.

people who use AI and are disingenuous about it really can't maintain that lie over several weeks or months. if i look at their posting history or their github profile, they really can't go that deep to fabricate a background that totally contradicts their values and stuff

one of the comments gets where i try to steer people, which is away from scrutinizing the artifact and towards looking at the author. people who come out of nowhere to suddenly offer fully formed code, or who have an obvious track record using AI, are surprisingly easy to identify (in my experience)

> With this framing I tend to detect a vibecoding situation pretty early and then I just block the user without giving them any feedback and move on. I don't worry about false positives either. lobste.rs/s/nhbnjf/bsk...

AI "impedes [theory because we're] interested in human-understandable theory and theory-based models, not statistical models which provide only a representation of the data. Scientific theories and models are only useful if [we understand them and] they connect transparently to research questions."

in america these are increasingly interchangeable

This works very well

There's a lot of bad takes on this website (and especially the other site) but people who say "linear algebra is not fundamentally evil" or "it's just a tool" are looking at the wrong level of abstract.

À lire plutôt que l’article du monde www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a... Easy read. Better check it out

Extremely unlikely given the amount of money being invested and the ability to shape it to benefit the ruling class. The impact it is having on our minds and our ability to learn has been well documented. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.

"..the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function. What value, after all, is there in automating art, thinking, or reading – especially in educational and academic settings? None" www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

"While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. ..." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

you might be interested to read this in our AI-frenzied times "The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy."

“Rather than expanding our intellectual horizons, these technologies undermine the very conditions that allow us to think for ourselves.” www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

Reminder...

Interesting reading: AI is a techno-fascist assault to our critical thinking www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

"While corporations urge us to embrace their supposedly inevitable tech-driven future, academics must take a principled stand and defend universities by barring toxic, addictive techn from classrooms." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a... Tide is def shifting: bsky.app/profile/oliv... 9/n

“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of educators has historically been central to fascist takeovers, since they serve as bulwarks against propaganda. By aggressively proselytizing their faith, AI advocates pave the way for technofascism."

This idea that one can discern a technology is fascist and then still conclude "we need to collect data" is nonsense! www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

AI can’t generate enough profit to justify the enormous amount of money being poured into it unless it enables corporations to replace human workers en masse. If it can’t do that, it is a bubble. Making universities redundant is preparation to make educated people redundant.

AI enthusiasts keep marketing their product as a magic pill that will make universities redundant. Their strategy: get students to read less, write less, and think less. In other words, students will be better off by cheating the process of learning. AI is the grift that keeps on grifting.