RE: https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/116795508582464798

I would go live in the woods and forage on wild plants before I'd give any identifying information (must less any official government ID) to a chatbot / LLM.

Of course, I don't use any of them now, but OMG! Why would someone do this?

#FuckAI #AIHype #Enshittification

Sehr gut auf den Punkt gebraucht!

#ki #ai #agi #chatgpt #claude #anthropic #gemini #google #aihype #kihype

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx_EWMMWR-g

#Public Education: Get #AI OUT of #SCHOOLS

#tech #AIHype

#MorePerfectUnion

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/vsFPsegUwao

I just read "No, AI is not Consicous" by Ted Chiang. It struck me what I find uncomfortable about using LLM-generated code.

LLMs generate tech debt, but they also generate moral debt.

LLMs have no moral agency. They can't take responsibility. It's like working with interns. You can't expect them to know better.

How do you know good decisions were made? Who will take responsibility when tings break?

https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/

#ai #aihype #philosophy

Sunday afternoon reading 📖 The AI Con

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Thought about reading The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow and just… didn't, because I don't have to. The synopsis gives me enough to where I don't need to read the book.

Rolls eyes. I just want to know the chapter where all the marginalized people objecting to data centers because they don't have water and the artists objecting to LLM companies being bastards are called neoliberal purists.

> The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI is not another anti-AI screed. Cory Doctorow uses AI in his work every day. As a creative person, he has no moral or dogmatic issue with AI—he thinks the technology is useful, even exciting, and full of potential.

No mention of comparing local LLMs trained on *your data you willingly give to it* to these goons that just steal your labor because rules suck bro! No mention of the harm these data centers are doing...

No wonder I deleted his RSS feed.

Also, found this, using his earlier writing to point out his right libertarian tendencies. Can people change? Certainly, and people change all the time, but I think this still holds up today. https://sensibletits.tumblr.com/archive

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@cbarbermd/116782557061224682

Thanks for the heads up! Here's a news article that's not behind a paywall:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/could-ai-renew-prescription-utah-130935359.html

"Utah's medical licensing board says it was not consulted until after the program had already launched and has called for the pilot to be suspended. The board's chairman warned that medication decisions can carry life-or-death consequences."

I'd like to know which part of Utah state government is paying for this & how much it costs.

#Healthcare #Utah #Chatbots #AIHype #FuckAI #Doctronic

Jeff Bezos is working with @savetheAI folks now: "Bezos also said that in order for AI to reach that potential, certain resources must be allocated and prioritised for the technology rather than for human consumption." #SaveTheAI #AIHype

[Disclaimer/Edit: Meanwhile, The Print has edited their article and removed that specific quote from Bezos and the actual source of the quote remains unknown. Have a glass of water everyone :-)]

"Look, thought experiments about how to deal equitably with labor displacement in the face of automation are all well and good. I'm a science fiction writer, that stuff is my bread and butter.

But applying "dead economy theory" to the blithe acceptance of the claims of AI pitchmen is a terrible waste of a killer coinage. The true risk of AI to your job isn't: "an AI will do your job." It's: "an AI salesman will exploit your boss's infinite horniness for replacing mouthy workers with pliable machines to sell him a chatbot that can't do your job, and then your boss will fire you and replace you with that inept, defective chatbot."

By the same token: the real "dead economy" risk isn't that all the productive labor will be done by chatbots owned by a habitual liar and eminently guillotineable billionaire like Sam Altman. The actual dead economy risk is that our institutions and markets will continue to move capital from productive activity into memestocks, vibes, and bubbles.

We could do "AI cancer research" by producing tools that automate gnarly multivariant analysis problems for cancer researchers. But what we're actually doing is defunding cancer research (especially any research into "systemic" cancer because studying systemic things is "woke") to free up fiscal space so we can build data-centers and make Musk into a trillionaire.

That's not just a dead economy – it's one that'll kill everyone you love and everything that matters."

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/17/its-the-stupid-economy-stupid/

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