RE: https://kolektiva.social/@danmcquillan/116311576053607691

I like this take: "The illiterate of the 21st century are those who aren't luddites."

Those gullible people parroting the falsehoods of "AI" companies because they are lacking in their ability for critical thinking, are the modern-day analogon of people who couldn't write or read.¹

Especially to those who think that luddites just couldn't appreciate progress, or those who never heard the word 'luddite', I recommend the book 'Blood in the Machine' by @brianmerchant. But to everyone else too. 😊

Also read the book 'Resisting AI' by @danmcquillan.

¹ Except that you needed to be wealthy or privileged in another way to have a teacher who would teach you how to read or write. You cannot blame a medieval peasant for not being able to read. In contrast to that, your clueless manager or colleague who absolutely has all the privileges and could/should know better but nonetheless parrots the "AI" propaganda … they can absolutely be blamed for not using their brain power.

#GenAI #LLM #luddism #luddites

As I don't use Microsoft products, and avoid "AI" at all cost, I hadn't seen this until now.

Microsoft's terms of use for CoPilot says the quiet part out loud to preempt legal issues, that "yes, the bullshit machine we crowbarred into Windows, MS Office, and Github is just for entertainment purposes".

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-individuals/termsofuse

Ergo, "AI" is not a tool, but a toy.

It is literally a Magic Eightball crossed with a Tamagotchi, which you can't escape if you use Windows.

#noAI #NoPilot #Luddism

🎟️ Registrations are now open for the 3rd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland.
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/3rd-symposium-on-digital-art-in-ireland-tickets-1985523941558

An Institute delegation will present 'Luddite Academy; towards a politicised digital creative practice' a paper about current and future work around #luddism and its application to artistic practice and research.

#conference #art #digitalart #luddites #noai #ireland

RE: https://mastodon.tedomum.net/@deuxfleurs/116183706328320620

La journée dédiée à la #matérialiténumérique et aux action pour les limiter les #infrastructures se terminera par une projection du film #MachinesInFlames de Thomas Dekeyser et Andrew Culp !

Ce documentaire révèle l’histoire oubliée du Comité Liquidant ou Détournant les Ordinateurs (#CLODO), actifs dans les années 80 à #Toulouse. On a aujourd’hui oublié que l’informatisation ne s’est pas faite sans oppositions.

18h30 - #Le108 à Orléans

Inscription - https://www.infrabasse.fr/e
#sabotage #luddism

RE: https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116169766657038724

Yes, it is correct and important to stop using ChatGPT.

OpenAI is the largest funder of Donald Trump and they send everything you type into ChatGPT to the fascist US regime.

But reading this article, it's important to have in mind that Rutger Bregman is a bootlicker of Dario Amodei. It's plain that Bregman would have you use Anthropic's Claude instead of ChatGPT.

Both Anthropic and OpenAI are despicable companies and, as US companies, required by law to give all your chat logs to the US regime.

The correct decision would be to use *neither* ChatGPT nor Claude.

#luddism #luddites #LLMcriticism

Unmaking as Emancipation: Lessons and Reflections from Luddism: »The Luddite practices - physical and symbolic, emancipatory, community-engaged, selective, antagonistic, and enduring - reveal a material, social, and political complexity that is lost when Luddism is romanticized as a precedent movement for "an older way of life" or against "consumerism"«

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3544548.3581412

#luddism #emancipation

»…the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” says Kevin Binfield […] They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around standard labor practices. “They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods,” says Binfield, “and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages”«

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/

#luddism #technology

I was invited to the "AI-Freecast". We talked about #luddism #ai, data center and the human need for friction.

It was great fun.

https://player.captivate.fm/episode/71f732a8-a2db-4c61-8e68-83a1a99abc5c/

RE: https://aoir.social/@sakhavi/116036726350286066

It would be an entirely different story if the LLM was actually intelligent. Email emailed. Word Processors processed byte streams as words. Aeroplanes lifted their planes into the air.

LLMs are only large. #posiwid #luddism

We should all be Luddites | Brookings

🔖 https://www.brookings.edu/articles/we-should-all-be-luddites/
🔗 https://ellyloel.com/we-should-all-be-luddites-brookings/

#Bookmarks #AI #Luddism