So no. It is not the same as producing cheap things for people who can't afford expensive things. It is more akin to producing poisoned food for people who can't afford clean food. We should refuse to eat poisoned food. 8/8

The dumbing-down and enshittification of everything is NOT the same as "sell cheap stuff to poor people." AI slop isn't cheap. The true cost—the environmental factors and the diminished brain function—are being pushed on folks unable to defend themselves. 3/8

What in the Minecraft is this shit? Why do I see brutalist columns in a movie about ANTIQUITY? Unlike modern film makers, ancient people were not allergic to color and wouldn’t have these plain blocky-ass columns.

ALL OF THIS. We have so much when we have each other, when we help & ask for help from our community. genAI cannot touch the deep well of knowledge, generosity, & creativity we have in this community. Tech bros just want to convince us that has no value. One more lie to pad their pockets.

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

No, I actually can’t imagine. Please explain to me how historians working in archives will be using AI tools all day long.

It's Christmas! Make an artist's day by supporting them! Every little thing means a lot! A cheap Patreon tier, a ko-fi, a repost, a recommendation to your friends - we are very easy to please! ❤️🎄

I can relate, Murderbot. I can relate. #murderbot #slyart

CW: SA, infanticide According to this Epstein file Trump regularly paid to sexually assault a 13 year old on a yacht and watched as they disposed of the 13 year olds new born child off the side of the boat in lake Michigan. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

The act of writing is *thinking*. If you do not allow yourself to think thoughts that feel wrong, you will never get a feel for what feels *right*.

The news about Harlequin translators getting fired en masse? You should care about that. They're doing it there because they think nobody gives a shit about romance and so it's fine to experiment with it first.

We will get paid less, many of us will be forced out of the field and/or the industry, generations of new writers will find their development stunted and their early-career opportunities limited, and ultimately, the quality of the work available to readers will suffer.

Translators, illustrators, researchers and editors all do creative, human work that is important and cannot be reproduced in part or in whole by AI any more than writers. Their interests are our interests. To legitimize the use of AI to replace them is a failure of principle as much as strategy.

There is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.

You don't have to be a member to tell SFWA how you feel about AI.

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

So if the wheels of a 200000 Euro transport container break and a 20 million Euro satellite spills onto the tarmac, because the machine translation system did not catch that the author of the source text got "brake" and "break" mixed up, hey, at least you saved a few hundred bucks for a translator.

If you apply this to legal or technical documents, mistakes can have massive consequences. A contract might become invalid or a very expensive piece of machinery might break. Worst case scenario, e.g. with mistranslated medical documents, is that someone dies.

If you want to see terrible machine translation, just look at any online store that feels the need to translate its offerings into the language of the country you're browsing from. You'll get wrong words, brandnames and proper names translated, mistakes that a human would never make.

Oh sorry, one more I would not ever take the output of any software translation as accurate. Even excluding hallucinations (and that's a big exclude), what you're not getting from it is context dependent meanings (like homophones, idioms, slang, etc). Fastest way to accidentally insult someone

As a multiple language speaker it's also frustrating to see people using AI for translation because the English speaking world tends to treat translators like workers for hire instead of co authors of text and this feels like more of it. Translation at the literary level is creative work. (2/?)

Deep breath Ok I'm going to try and stay calm But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France) (1/?)

Kinda weird/terrible to think about how Mr. Rogers would be considered radical antifa by today's standards and he was a Republican pastor.

Coming back to this, I'm still struck by the implication that academics should care if the AI pushers "trust" all our work that's done without AI. I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.

The trade-off for getting pretty things for free from the plagiarism machine that steals work from starving artists and poisons communities is that those artists and the people living in those communities get to drag you. If you are such a sensitive snowflake that you can't handle it, don't use AI.

O medo do colonizador é que, se sobrar um colonizado, esse colonizado continue, como testemunha, a manter a memória da violência colonial que fundou a bonança daqueles que roubaram aquele lugar. O sonho do colonialista é a aniquilação completa do colonizado. Toda noite o colonizador sua frio.

If they're going to award Nebulas for partial LLM-created works then I want a piece of those Nebulas since my work was stolen to create them.

Every day, and especially today (and yesterday and tomorrow, and so on), trans rights are human rights.

"refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us the future is already settled and decided" this is SO GOOD @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is super on point, per usual

Absolute bullshit, and authors, if Harlequin has your foreign rights, you should also complain.

@derryday.bsky.social MY DARLINGEST, PAGING YOU AND SNOOPY!!!! THEY'RE MAKING THAT BOOK INTO A MOVIE!!!

The person turned off replies and quotes, so not tagging them to respect that, but someone just called Dracula a loser has-been, and that made me realize him moving because the Transylvanians know his tricks is the vampire equivalent of "he goes for teenagers because women his age won't have him."

"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Putting this out here so you can say, "I submitted to them before they were rich and famous." Which is obviously a super realistic goal for a lit mag. Find the list here: www.chillsubs.com/lists/20-in-... #writingcommunity

#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI

Meaning that the players/consumers, whose rent and groceries don't depend on pretending to go along with this shit, need to be loud on the "fuck, no!"

97% OF PEOPLE: 'No Torment Nexus please.' 3% OF PEOPLE WHO ALSO HAPPEN TO BE PART OF TORMENT NEXUS PLC: 'Torment Nexus is good.' POLITICIAN: 'It's so difficult to know what people really want.'

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Lembra da Tesla fazendo upload dos dados de direção autônoma do carro depois de um acidente fatal e apagando a versão local? Agora é a OpenAI sumindo com chats do ChatGPT onde incentivava uma pessoa a tirar a própria vida (e levar a mãe junto) – o que ele fez.

Se você a essa altura do campeonato não enxerga a mobilização ideológica da extrema direita em cima de pautas LGBT e como a transfobia é uma das maiores armas deles, você não entendeu porra nenhuma. Você não é um companheiro de luta da classe trabalhadora e é um inimigo da população LGBT.

Reposting to manifest this into reality.

What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.

really tired of the constant attempts at manipulation — by AI, by tech corps, by the fascists, by propaganda, the media, the algos, advertising, all the malevolent forces in the world

Years ago someone "gave me an idea" for something and then immediately demanded that if I did anything with it I should give him 50% of anything I earned from it. So I simply didn't use it and had other ideas instead, because ideas are the easy bit.

manifesting: 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 ai bubble 🕯 🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯 🕯 for all involved 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

Since Polygon is leaving it out of the headline: Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to put money into the pocket of a bigot who uses her wealth to further the genocide of trans people through lawsuits and legislation. Every 'free' game gives money directly to JKR, and they are complicit.