bsmall23d ago
> Am I comparing AI to rape? I am not. I am, however, comparing the language we use when discussing AI adoption to the language of rape culture. It’s the language of coercion. Language that implies a lack of choice and reminds you of the power those who are using it have over you. A lack of agency. It’s language that does not rely on consent, but instead the idea that we are bereft of choices, so we might as well get with the program.
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-use-no-as-a-complete-sentence/
#MikeMonteiro #SalamiAI #AiSalami #NonConsentLanguage
How to use NO as a complete sentence

I did my job fine before AI came along. Now my workplace ‘suggests’ we use it. How do I say no?

Mike Monteiro’s Good News
bsmall2May 29
> ... if you use AI tools for writing, the cognitive load of being creative – a large part of which is to have a “writing voice”, which you have had to hone for years before even having one – will be shifted to your AI tool. Your brain will stop being creative, because it doesn’t have to.
> And it’s worse than that: your readers are now very much attuned to AI, and will spot AI-inspired writing immediately. And the cognitive offload there, is to just ignore what it has to say.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1bsbdEBQ3b/
#AISalami #AIVoiceless
/HT #TomWetzel
Facebook

bsmall2May 18
> ... ChatGPT is not “a clear inflection point in the history of higher education,” because with just a few adjustments professors can continue to teach with largely the same methods and goals that they have always had. Nevertheless, too many university administrators and faculty members, deceived by rhetoric that originated in Silicon Valley, have overreacted to the arrival of artificial intelligence.
https://www.aaup.org/issue/spring-2026/ai-nuisance
#AINuisance #ProfessorSalami #AISalami #UniversityAdministration
Show threadbsmall2May 18
> ... disadvantaged communities.. in urbanized areas.. experience higher temperatures because they have fewer trees or bodies of water. Burning carbon in developed countries disproportionately harms low-income and low-emissions countries, which then have a harder time recovering from and adapting to the extreme weather. How can.. students...professor[s] as a credible instructor if course instruction methods violate.. [decent] messages? How can the classroom model for students.. values of environmental responsibility.. if professors use AI?
#AISalami
Show threadbsmall2May 18
> Maya Vinokour...is concerned about “the relationship between AI and computing power, water and energy usage,” and about the vast, unsustainable, energy-consuming LLMs that contradict values of environmental stewardship. Stacey Balkan.. worries that “the digital platforms that many are touting as a silver bullet in the face of imminent climate collapse are fueled in large part by coal and natural gas.” ... Brent Bellamy...notes that, “as with many environmental impacts, the problems occur at scale.”
https://www.aaup.org/issue/spring-2026/teaching-climate-change-age-chatgpt
#AISalami #LLMs #Debra
bsmall2May 16
> The AAUP joins the National Nurses Union (NNU) in escalating a cross-sector labor resistance against reckless artificial intelligence deployment.
> The AAUP is committed to a higher education system where universities are the engines of democracy and human flourishing—not silent partners in a reckless technological arms race that burns through public resources while weakening the very institutions needed for democratic society.
#artificialintelligence #AI #AISalami
https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-backs-ai-data-center-moratorium
/HT
https://www.facebook.com/share/14YEcPafQh6/
bsmall2Apr 16

> “Everything got a whole lot worse once they rolled out AI.” ... executives shifted the blame to staff..
about AI-fueled productivity decreases."...
> While initial drafts were a breeze..[but] co-workers had to spend more time rewriting, correcting errors and resolving disagreements between each other’s chatbots than if they had never used AI at all.
> “Quality decreased significantly, time to produce a piece of content increased significantly and, most importantly, morale decreased,” said the copywriter,

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/14/ai-productivity-workplace-errors

#AISalami

Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they’re drowning in ‘workslop’

Workslop refers to AI-generated work that seems polished but is flawed and in need of heavy corrections

The Guardian
bsmall2Mar 24
> Large Language Model chat boxes keep urging people to break up their relationships. Why? Because the bots were trained on Reddit, where an analysis of 15 years of relationship advice found that 50% of the comments urged people to “leave” their romantic partners.
> A study by researchers at the University of British Columbia published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology found that texting a random stranger is a better antidote to loneliness than conversing with a chat box.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/20/roaming-charges-trumps-little-excursion-hits-the-straits/
#AISalami #LLMRelationships #ChatBotLonely
Roaming Charges: Trump's Little Excursion Hits the Straits

Perhaps Trump will now replace Joe Kent with Newt Gingrich, who is very, very strong on security. So strong that Newt, the Edward Teller of our tormented times, advised Trump to drop 12 nuclear bombs on Iran to blast out a canal by-passing the Strait of Hormuz. In other words, someone with the guts to start a nuclear holocaust to prevent one.

CounterPunch.org
bsmall2Mar 10
This came to mind while wondering at the AI (Salami) PR onslaught in Japan. Quite the Fad: Fast Fashion!?!??
> As I write (in fact, it is the reason why I write), the United States is the only culture to have become a Technopoly. It is a young Technopoly, and we can assume that it wishes not merely to have been the first but to remain the most highly developed. Therefore, it watches with a careful eye Japan and several European nations that are striving to become Technopolies as well.
#NeilPostman #Technopoly #JapanAsTechnopoly #AIFad #AISalami
bsmall2Feb 25

> A recent survey of nearly 6,000 executives in the U.S., Europe, and Australia found that despite 70% of firms actively using AI, about 80% reported no impact on employment or productivity.

> “A lot of the AI investment that we’re seeing in the U.S. adds to Taiwanese GDP, and it adds to Korean GDP but not really that much to U.S. GDP,” he said.
...
> So far, many business leaders say AI hasn’t significantly improved productivity.
https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380

#AISalami #AIHype #AIProductivity #AISalamiGDP

/HT @nixCraft

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says

Imported chips and hardware mean the AI investments are translating into US GDP growth.

Gizmodo