imagine getting back the parts of your attention drawn into wondering “is that legal? can they get away with that?”

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

the sound of the future they are selling is this podcast generated from a blank pdf

I can honestly tell you that if I were offered a seat on a rocket, I would have MANY questions and would not just get on, as the idea of being reduced to dust over the Atlantic Ocean does not appeal to me.

With its new AI-based "search," Google is literally killing the infrastructure that its entire business is built on. Instead of linking people to the web, it will lock users into an "interactive" mode that slorps up data what is rapidly becoming the now-neglected and unvisited web. (1/3)

Ok I've designed an LLM prompt to make Google AI just give you a list of links. It's longer than you might think because it kept ignoring the instructions. This is efficient. This is The Future™

Graduation ceremonies this year

I used Grammarly for many years but quit once it pivoted to shoving AI down everyone's throat. At the end, it was both offering to rewrite your stuff with AI...and to detect any AI writing. A nice circular economy of baiting and busting, which seems to be where we are now.

In a way, this is a perfect illustration of AI in higher ed: administrators adopted an AI “solution” to a non-problem in order to make their lives easier and ultimately screwed over a large portion of their students.

I hear critical positions towards so-called «artificial intelligence» nowadays framed more and more as «rejectionism», and this is especially formulated as a critique of the left. The argument often goes something like this: Rather than seeing the potentials of AI, the left merely rejects it 1/

A lot of the students in that room undoubtably used an LLM at least a few times to help with their coursework in some way. The key to understanding this insane moment remains: lots of people like using AI, and absolutely nobody likes having AI used on them.

Currently reading The Smartest Guys in the Room, and it is astonishing how much Secret-Enron-Shit has become not-so-secret OpenAI shit. Enron’s CFO set up his own fund so he could take both sides of Enron’s deal flow. (SCANDAL!) Sam Altman does the same thing (OH SAM, YOU RASCAL.)

And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.

This one’s not so funny.🤬🤬

everything, you useless, illiterate hole in the ground

@mrphoenix.bsky.social What a brilliant piece of work! (by fokawolf, who has done several similar pieces of ad-graffiti) www.instagram.com/p/DWluS9BCGqs/

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

And this is why they are so desperately trying to entrench themselves in education and government. They’re hoping to create generations of captive users who have no other choice but to use their tech if they want to read, work, write or think

Tired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not. The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

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

How is AI like a mirror? You’re always looking into the past. AI ethicist Professor Shannon Vallor explaining some of the philosophical implications of the debate around the technology @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @adambecker.bsky.social @shannonvallor.bsky.social

There was a point back in the early 2000s where Google Search became much less functional due to people figuring out how to game the algorithm. The Google engineers treated this as a major problem they needed to solve ASAP. Whereas with AI garbage they're the ones putting it in.

Someone just told a pro AI bro in my comments: I’m not using it because it’s not smarter than me, I can see why you like it though.

Watercolor from the great @artologica.net.

All the developers 404 Media talked to were excited to try using LLMs at work at first, or were at least curious about them. Their feelings about the tools, based on their personal experience, are now overwhelmingly negative. AI is rotting their brains www.404media.co/software-dev...

There is no battle that you can sign up to go win on twitter. Go play Hearts of Iron instead

Say a prayer for the women married to the men who can’t stop talking about AI. (This story is spectacular and, speaking from personal experience with all due respect to my spouse, spot-on.)

My friend who used to say the final stage of corporate greed was demanding to be loved is never, ever proved wrong.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Yup. It's so tiring hearing that we (as teachers) MUST "prepare our students for an AI future" & "get on the AI train or else be left behind," & I'm aware that some professors are using AI for grading or creating AI lectures using avatars of themselves, but I think if "AI is the future" we're fucked

Reading text produced by AI is like seeing a TV with motion-smoothing on

i will simply incant "do NOT corrupt me. make NO mistakes" before wielding the One Ring

extreme lol: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

... I've never said otherwise, Collider. Darabont is unrivaled collider.com/frank-darabo...

If it WERE possible to create intelligence by feeding giant piles of text into a linear algebra woodchipper (it's not) the decision to use, as a corpus, "the internet" would be frankly insane

unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better

and when the right wins an election the common man has spoken; when the left wins it's activism

This is the best book to read if you want to understand why AOC is right, basically, when she says you become a billionaire by taking. www.amazon.com/Enshittifica...

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary.

Actual “AI” literacy would involve explaining why it's not and never will be a reliable source of information nor will it ever be a replacement for research or creativity.

Teaching little kids like this is going to make the COVID learning loss look like the superintelligence drug they gave Charlie Gordon

Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.

“Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the Earth, but none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz,” says @billmckibben.bsky.social. “That makes it a very appealing alternative, especially now that it’s cheaper than burning coal and gas and oil.”

Anarchism’s principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principal moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid).

A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

inspired by a post I saw on here and have since lost, I've started reading "AI companies" as "cigarette manufacturers," so something like this becomes "maker of Newports backs bill to fund smoking literacy in schools"

Two things: 1) A helpful reframing is not that “AI” is responsible for reshaping labor; it’s managers and bosses who're deploying AI for profit who are responsible. 2) Uh, “tech-backed legislation” is only going to further Big Tech's capture of public education and align learning with its needs.

Computing used to be fun and rewarding…before enshittification ruined everything. Now I just see tech as a tool for mass surveillance, marketing, division and loneliness.