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Multiple readings Why shaming people about AI slop isn’t enough to stop Big AI - Anil Dash Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Shared emphasis (One) Good AI Is Here - Anil Dash Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Anil Dash AI slop critique

Why shaming people about AI slop isn’t enough to stop Big AI - Anil Dash

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
“Hey look at this * Does copyright protect AI-generated content in Europe? euobserver.com/232898/inter... * FTC Says It Will Enforce Surveillance Pricing. It Won’t. prospect.org/2026/08/21/f... * Why shaming people about AI slop isn’t enough to stop Big AI w…” evidence ↗
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Anil Dash By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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“Hey look at this * Does copyright protect AI-generated content in Europe? euobserver.com/232898/inter... * FTC Says It Will Enforce Surveillance Pricing. It Won’t. prospect.org/2026/08/21/f... * Why shaming people about AI slop isn’t enough to stop Big AI w…”

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“I’m not saying people can’t try it; of course they can, and are. I’m saying it won’t work, because it has been anticipated by the platform owners and investors, who are incapable of shame. They’ll just make slop art generators that are harder to tell are AI…”

3 experts discussed this · 20 posts
Anil Dash: Hey, thanks so much for the thoughtful response and for amplifying the piece! And I agree with your empathetic take that a lot of people’s impulse to dunk comes from their fatigue and frustrations.
Anil Dash: Here's a more fully articulated version of the argument I'd make: simply shaming people about their AI slop isn't an effective strategy for stopping Big AI. There needs to be a power-aware theory o…
Anil Dash: The key point: shame is fine for establishing social norms; it might even change some behaviors — but the fascist VCs have designed for it in their business models, so it’s *not effective* at stopp…
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Established AI field signal Signal 17d ago

(One) Good AI Is Here - Anil Dash

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Anil Dash, Reuben Binns
“It is not science fiction, one such creator-built system already exists. We just need one of these tools in every little area, rather than the giant corporate AIs trying to be all things to all people, while making tools that tell kids to self-harm. www.ani…” evidence ↗
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Anil Dash Reuben Binns
2 experts discussed this · 3 posts
Reuben Binns: "There’s no risk that CorridorKey is going to tell kids to self-harm in the way that ChatGPT does. Because CorridorKey has a specific job to do. And that’s the way AI should work — solving a specif…
Lizzie K.: isn’t this technically just true of all predictive models…? (which this kinda is. predicting the correct alpha of individual pixels)
Reuben Binns: Yes! But it's one thing among others mentioned in this post (ethically sourced training data, fully open, etc)
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4 experts · 19 posts · 5d ago
Anil Dash Luke Stark Karl Bode Mary Branscombe
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“and that concerns me because 1 the least responsibly built and run data centres are the ones that will find a way to short circuit planning processes and rules 2 you can't fix the problem in the lo…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Building & implementation · 1
Anil Dash: I'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise …
Luke Stark: I'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise …
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3 experts · 13 posts · 11d ago
Anil Dash Jeff Sharlet tj mahr 🤘
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“Your genuine argument is "he's doing 12-D chess with the unappointed failson"? FOH” evidence ↗
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tj mahr 🤘: I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire wee…
Anil Dash: Your genuine argument is "he's doing 12-D chess with the unappointed failson"? FOH
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