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It’s interesting how the fascists are trying to preemptively securitize any *ideas* that are a threat to their power base and work backwards from them to construct the claim of an actual violent extremist threat, in this case anti-tech, but also anti-{American, Christian, capi…

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED wired.com

Google changing Lake Ontario to Lake America while simultaneously forcing AI misinfo slop tools on to their customers is a good example of the way that fascism operates as a kind of MLM of alternately exercising and sucking up to authoritarian power.

The critical perspective on counter-arguments about Google and GNIS is that a society organized around blindly following automation and treating any information that is extruded by an information system as de facto authoritative is exactly the problem that critical tech scholars are raising about AI

It is interesting how if you spend even a little amount of time using an LLM how easy it becomes to clock (most) LLM generated text and, especially, website designs. These things are caught in stylistic attractor basins and the homogeneity is telling once you see it.

The Mitch McConnell situation feels like the perfect opportunity for the tech-oligarch class to demonstrate their faith in their AI necromancy technology

The thing social media-driven social epistemologies, conspiracist make-believe, governance-by-propaganda, influencer alt-media, peer-on-peer surveillance, and AI-as-information-system all have in common is that they deny consensual participation in shared reality, which is inherently anti-democratic

As someone who started working on a citation management and information organizing software tool, seeing the widespread anti-software sentiment among researchers because they got baited into thinking Zotero has anything to do with AI (it doesn’t, it is literally 20 years old) is depressing.

I know AI has made life more interesting for computer people but it has cheapened so many other areas of human life and sociality in incredibly disappointing ways. Completely narrowed the window on human possibilities into one tiny path.

For all the talk about data-driven decision-making, data has always operated as a prop magic wand for people to suspend their disbelief for engaging in desire-driven decision-making, and AI has just shortened the engineering pipeline required to get to that end.

My only interest in the “is AI conscious?” debate is observing that cyberpunk and scifi stories apparently got it backwards how in our actual reality it was in the financial interests of the companies creating AI to convince everyone that it is conscious instead of suppressing or ignoring it

One of the frustrating elements in dev culture now is devs simultaneously complaining, when people express dislike for AI use in a project, that people should be able to have fun coding; while also mocking devs who don't use AI as being delusional artisans who are going to get left behind.