Has anybody tried poisoning AI at source? Many job offers around for annotators to "improve AI output".

#airesistance

“Künstliche Intelligenz” at its best: systematisch reproduzierter Sexismus, toxische Männlichkeit, Objektifizierung von Frauen, dümmliches Männlichkeitsbild im Fellkleid – KI steht für patriarchale Unterdrückung, von diesen Bildchen hier bis zur Anwendung in Waffentechniken, für die Kriege alter weißer Männer.

Mal ehrlich, wer produziert solche Bilder? Was sind das für kranke Typen, die das “herstellen”?

Kennzeichnungspflicht für AI-Inhalte!

#StopAI #BanAI #NoToAI #AITheft #AIResistance

🔍 A secret meeting just revealed that 94% of participants back even the least‑popular AI resistance stance. The new Declaration pushes for stronger AI policy and tech governance, with input from Anthropic’s Grok and other model teams. What does this mean for open‑source AI? Dive into the research & benchmarks to find out. #AIResistance #AIPolicy #Anthropic #TechGovernance

🔗 https://aidailypost.com/news/secret-meeting-sees-94-approve-even-leastpopular-ai-resistance-stance

Research identifies 80 specific jobs in Nigeria that remain resistant to AI, focusing on roles that require deep human empathy, physical dexterity, and complex decision-making.

See the full list: https://aibase.ng/ai-opportunity/80-jobs-in-nigeria-that-are-ai-resistant/

#ai #aibase #aibasenig #Nigeria #FutureOfWork #AIResistance #Jobs #CareerAdvice

https://aibase.ng/ai-opportunity/80-jobs-in-nigeria-that-are-ai-resistant/

Research identifies 80 specific jobs in Nigeria that remain resistant to AI, focusing on roles that require deep human empathy, physical dexterity, and complex decision-making.

See the full list: https://aibase.ng/ai-opportunity/80-jobs-in-nigeria-that-are-ai-resistant/

#ai #aibase #aibasenig #Nigeria #FutureOfWork #AIResistance #Jobs #CareerAdvice

https://aibase.ng/ai-opportunity/80-jobs-in-nigeria-that-are-ai-resistant/

The Strange Disappearance of an #AntiAI #Activist

#SamKirchner wants to save the world from artificial superintelligence. He’s been missing for two weeks.

By Kaitlyn Tiffany, December 4, 2025

Excerpt: "The reaction from the broader #AISafety movement was fast and consistent. Many disavowed violence. One group, #PauseAI, a much larger AI-safety activist group than #StopAI, specifically disavowed Kirchner. PauseAI is notably staid—it includes property damage in its definition of violence, for instance, and doesn’t allow volunteers to do anything illegal or disruptive, such as chain themselves to doors, barricade gates, and otherwise trespass or interfere with the operations of AI companies. 'The kind of protests we do are people standing at the same place and maybe speaking a message,' the group’s CEO, Maxime Fournes, told me, 'but not preventing people from going to work or blocking the streets.'

"This is one of the reasons that Stop AI was founded in the first place. Kirchner and others, who’d met in the PauseAI #Discord server, thought that that genteel approach was insufficient. Instead, Stop AI situated itself in a tradition of more confrontational protest, consulting #GeneSharp’s 1973 classic, The #MethodsOfNonviolentAction, which includes such tactics as #SitIns, '#NonviolentObstruction,' and 'seeking imprisonment.'

"In its early stages, the movement against unaccountable AI development has had to face the same questions as any other burgeoning social movement: How do you win broad support? How can you be palatable and appealing while also being sufficiently pointed, extreme enough to get attention but not so much that you sabotage yourself? If the stakes are as high as you say they are, how do you act like it?

"#MichaëlTrazzi, an activist who went on a hunger strike outside #Google #DeepMind’s London headquarters in September, also believes that AI could lead to human extinction. He told me that he believes that people can do things that are extreme enough to 'show we are in an emergency' while still being nonviolent and nondisruptive. (PauseAI also discourages its members from doing hunger strikes.)"

Read more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/sam-kirchner-missing-stop-ai/685144/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/l6ACC

#AISucks #NoNukesforAI #AIResistance #Terminator #Alphabet #WarBots #SkyNet #Activists

Decomputing in a Processed World.

From Dan McQuillan
(https://www.danmcquillan.org/resisting_genai_highered_cjuu.html)

*Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education*

I suggest we situate our resistance to AI inside and outside higher education as forms of decomputing.
Decomputing rejects scale because that drives carbon emissions,
but also because our agency is undermined by our immersion in a system of machinic relations, which includes the contemporary university
Decomputing is based on the principles of degrowth, care and conviviality.
We need systems that don't depend on continuous expansion, whether that's AI, universities or entire economies.
We need to start from care to counter algorithmic detachment and eugenicist abstractions.
Conviviality gives us ways to collectively assess tech's effects on relatedness and bio-interaction.
Wherever AI is proposed as ‘the answer’ there's already a structural problem.
One that's best addressed through the direct social relations of those most affected.

#airesistance #decomputing #datasociety #academia

Does using #AI dumb you down?

by Willis Ryder Arnold, Meghna Chakrabarti, August 11, 2025

Excerpt: "CHAKRABARTI: ... Well, actually, Nataliya, before you do that, I do want to, I promise you, we will hear the final. I'm just like teasing, I'm teasing listeners today, but since both of you have actually mentioned handwriting, I do wanna just pause for a second and talk about that.

"Because in my personal N=1 of my life, I type every day like any normal person, almost all my writing is done through typing, but I don't know, I find myself that when I like, really want to remember something or it's of high value to me, I pick up a pencil or a pen.

"And somehow that embeds it more deeply into my brain, specifically my aging, working memory.

"So because of that, we actually reached out to one of the researchers that you mentioned who has done research on handwriting to understand like how we process information and think differently depending on how we're physically writing. And according to on Audrey van der Meer the answer is quite a bit.

"AUDREY VAN DER MEER: We actually looked at the connectivity patterns in the brain during handwriting and typewriting, and we found that the brain is much more connected during handwriting than it is during typewriting.

"CHAKRABARTI: van der Meer is a researcher and professor of neuropsychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

"And in her research she used students, once again, the universal Guinea pig, as subjects. And it sounds like the experiment might've looked exactly how you'd think, but maybe with the fun twist.

"VAN DER MEER: They were wearing one of our characteristic electrode nets. Consisting of 256 sensitive electrodes sewn together as like a hair net on their heads, and they were playing the game Pictionary. So we presented Pictionary words on a large screen, and they were supposed to either write the word by hand, draw the word by hand, or type the word on a keyboard. And we recorded their ongoing brain activity while they were performing those tasks.

"CHAKRABARTI: And just like Nataliya's team did, van der Meer recorded that brain activity on an EEG, and she says the number of brain functions, visual processing, sensory motor integration, and the motor cortex are notably more engaged when writing by hand.

"VAN DER MEER: The brain does this through neural oscillations that can oscillate at different frequencies and in different parts of the brain and that kind, those kind of oscillations in the regions of the brain where we found activity are usually involved in learning and memory. So these kind of oscillations, they put the brain in a kind of state that makes it easier to learn from your handwriting activities and to remember what the notes were about.

"CHAKRABARTI: Writing by hand can also promote recall of experience in place because it helps cement memories that are unique to us. According to van der Meer:

"VAN DER MEER: Handwritten notes are very personal. When you then take them up in order to study for the exam, for instance, everything is coming back because it feels like you're back in the lecture theater again.

"And that's why sending your mate to a lecture to take notes doesn't work because notes, hundred of notes are typically very personal."

Read more / listen:
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/08/11/ai-writing-chatgpt-study-cognitive

#AISucks #AIIsDumbingUsDown #AIResistance #Handwriting #BrainHealth #Datacenters #DumbingUsDown