Damien Williams

Meta's "AI" chatbot will apparently facilitate account hacks by just changing people's account email addresses when attackers cunningly… ask it to. Once again, the harms that can come from an "All AI Everything" paradigm aren't autonomous overlords, but human-enacted exploits.…

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 404media.co

This nature survey on "AI" attitudes is a pretty blunt instrument. Seven questions, two of which are demographic, and none of which get granular about what they mean by either "AI" or "use." We need to have been doing better than this, and we're really going to need to start, …

Do you hate or love AI? Take Nature’s poll nature.com

At this point, I don't think sanctions are cutting it; I honestly think massive fines, malpractice lawsuits, and temporary removal from practice might be the only things that can make a dent in "AI" being used in legal or medical settings. www.scientificamerican.com/article/wh…

Lawyers know AI can hallucinate. Judges have warned them. Courts have sanctioned them for it. They keep citing fake AI cases anyway. scientificamerican.com

Two commencement speakers loudly & persistently booed for praising this current paradigm of "AI," most recently being Eric damn Schmidt, & he also looked fully stunned; which, y'know what? Good. Seems the only way these people are gonna learn is by facing a very large crowd clearly telling them "No"

The Republican president of the Utah State Senate lost his 2026 primary because of his support for "AI" Data Centers. UTAH. Democrats, i really really really need you to get this message and get it right now.

Harder to think of a clearer example of "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House" for this era than people using "generative AI" to protest the outputs and infrastructure of "AI"

Just scrolled by an anti-AI story from the Washington fucking Times so i'm really going to need Democrats to get on-message and start claiming that "AI==higher cost of living + lower quality of life + billionaire greed + consent violation" space, really fucking fast. Fucking MOVE.

They removed the ability to google "disregard" because it breaks their "AI," but "Ignore" still returns this:

Very weird headspace today. Bad day being an embodied entanglement of consciousness and perceptions. Kind of a rough few months of it, tbh. In lieu of expressions of sympathy, send alt texted non-"AI" images of cute baby animals or links to the most recent lyrics to really stick with you.

I think my 2 most pertinent/prescient pieces in the last few years were "Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process" (2024) & "Reimagining 'AI's Environmental & Sociotechnical Materialities" (2025). In the 1st i talk about the pressures & harms likely to spur a huge increaase in acdemic "AI" slop…

Reminder that you Can just cite lectures: Williams, D.P., 2023, October. On Bullshit Engines: The Socioethical & Epistemic Status of GPTs & other ‘AI.’ In Forum in Ethics, Law, & Society Lecture Series, hosted by the Sonoma State University Philosophy Department’s Center for Ethics, Law & Society.

And that's my "Fascist Bullshit" paper on authoritarianism and "generative AI" complete and submitted at 10 words over the limit (my name and institutional affiliation). Even after all the editing, I still feel pretty okay about it. Very tired now, though. Should probably eat something.

I had i dream just a couple of hours ago that i had to get a new phone, and since i wanted one with no "generative AI" bullshit i ended up with a nokia brick with basically zero internet connectivity. I was kind of bemusedly happy about it.