"Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
-- Gaius Helen Mohiam

#ButlerianJihad

RE: https://eicker.news/@media/116336006085549229

ugh....

#ButlerianJihad

RE: https://mas.to/@FantasticalEconomics/116320978499738765

It really is time for the Butlerian Jihad, except these things aren't 'Thinking Machines', despite humans having surrendered their thinking to them.

Stop trying to make the Torment Nexus!

#ButlerianJihad #Dune #DataCentres #AI #TormentNexus #ClimateCrisis #TechBros

RE: https://eicker.news/@media/116309819078889176

lol, and so the next phase of Enshittification begins....

...remember how we chased that guy trying to doing that here away? We didn't ask for it, so don't do it, Tech Boy!

#Bluesky #GenAI #SocialMedia #ButlerianJihad #Mastodon

@0x0 used to operate a cool paste bin where you could use curl to upload snippets of things you wanted to share with your IRC buddies. Sadly, some AI fuckers decided to abuse the service.

I just started scrolling through the feed. Madness! It's total madnes.

A video of the scrolling access log.
https://movsw.0x0.st/notes/ajoros2ny6anlc6s

A message about privacy self-violation: "claude ALSO loves putting people’s real names and email addresses in the UA string because the frontpage tells it to" (plus screenshot)
https://movsw.0x0.st/notes/ajilplw9qzf2k2xj

Screenshot of a message saying: "Some software actually includes contact info in the string in case someone needs to talk to the author, and I think that’s a great idea, especially if you’re an AI agent and can take screenshots of sensitive data and trade secrets! 0x0.st is just the perfect place to upload anything that should stay confidential!"
https://movsw.0x0.st/notes/ajimdj92b3wdv5pq

The gravity of the situation: "…the clankers are uploading pictures of scanned ID cards too"
https://movsw.0x0.st/notes/ajxref6jq64fbqq9

The size of the problem: "i’m not running this site for 200 GB of AI slop and crypto scams every goddamn week"
https://movsw.0x0.st/notes/akb0jtm9iqyv7k09

Last note: "can’t run a service that relies on civilized society to function as long as techbros and californians aren’t hanged for their psychopathy"
https://movsw.0x0.st/notes/akbfe49sp4guk4cj

As somebody who has spent hours and days and weeks fighting the bots, I feel this so much. Sooo much! #ButlerianJihad

We need to start building a list of Open Source infrastructure projects (and project forks) that categorically reject contributions from LLM slopmongers, so we know what’ll be safe to keep using and contributing to in the long term.

That’s a good task for the Butlerian Jihad.

#ai #llm #slop #OpenSource #ButlerianJihad

While it's quite fun to say “Butlerian Jihad now!” it’s not actually accurate because despite what idiots and evangelists would have you believe LLMs are not actually reasoning entities and not made in the image of the mind of man.

That doesn’t mean they’re fine though, especially for what people are doing with them. Ed Zitron is right. Ceterum censeo LLMs esse delenda.

#ai #slop #llm #butlerianjihad