Kat Tenbarge

Honestly I think a lot of Bluesky related crashouts have more to do with social media’s decline in general. Elon made it harder for anyone who isn’t a Nazi to get engagement. Short-form video is now the primary medium and AI slop is everywhere. But it’s easier to get mad at Bluesky

Whenever someone prominent accidentally shares an AI hallucination, people are like “this is why you have to double-check the output!” Which is absolutely true, but remember that AI proponents market it as a faster way to work. Which is not really true if you have to double check everything it does.

AI is a fascist tool, and that has been obvious since day 1. That’s the utility of a tool that erases, minimizes, and smears everyone who isn’t a white guy. A tool that ultimately disadvantages everyone besides the white guys at the top.

My prediction is that AI is actually so organically unpopular that we’re going to see a backlash against any new product that uses “AI” even if it doesn’t and that was a marketing ploy. All these newly “AI” companies are going to come crawling back, AI-less

I know Google Search has sucked for a while now but it genuinely saddens me to see it become even more of an AI shell of its former self. It's a tool that I think genuinely transformed everyday life, in many ways for the better, but was doomed by runaway capitalism

Martin Scorsese is advising an AI company that wants to replace human storyboarding. Which is an interesting choice because if he did literally nothing for the rest of his life I’d still consider him an all-time great filmmaker, but now I also think he’s a traitor to his industry

A fun experiment is comparing how everyday people talk about AI online versus how companies are talking about AI in press releases. Night and day difference. The majority position has always been at least slightly negative/skeptical toward AI, and now it's completely out of sync with the AI economy