mr.w0bb1tThe #Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, & organizers fighting #AI & automation at work. @alex
theludditeA reply to Maples et al.'s reply to our reply to "Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots": Part 1
A reply to Maples et al.'s reply to our reply to "Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots": Part 1 - Lemmy
In early 2024, shortly after writing a post on Maples et al.'s “Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots,” we also wrote a response to the journal. In it, we noted that Replika, the app they used for the study, was an AI companion app marketed for erotic role play. Maples et al. had failed to mention this little piece of context in their study, along with Maples’s conflicts of interest. As of November 2025, that response was finally published, along with their reply. Despite apparently taking a year to write, their reply is a mere 319 words and dodges the substance of our critique. In this second reply, we go through their response point by point and, in the process, show how both Maples and Luka (the company that owns Replika) have used the study in their advertising and public communications, greatly exaggerating and generalizing its already dubious findings as it suits them.
Thejesh GN ⏚ ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ ಎನ್I read #luddite as luddu ite, ಲಡ್ಡು ಐತೆ.
Can mean sweets (laddos) are here (ite).
Asciilander“Join the luddite renaissance”
Source: https://synthmedia.fr/data-centers/resistances-technologiques-renaissance-luddite/
Wulfy—Speaker to the machinesWell Intentioned
but entirely wrongheaded approach.
Apocryphal stories with single data points.
Lack of serious research or non-credible research.
Conflating socials with Ai
Ideology driven
This is equivalent to banning internet rather than teching about cyberbullying / use of the tool.
Jobs will be hard to find already, disabling kids chances because you're not preparing them for the Ai office is harmful.
#education needs to prepare the young people for the future, not for what a #Luddite ideology dictates.
Wednesday, May 20 · Launching the #Luddite Lab Resource Hub · A new resource for fighting AI at work.
👉🏻 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-the-luddite-lab-resource-hub-registration-1988317489134
ArtemisHey tech friends. I'd like a phone recommendation.
I need a new phone and I hate large phones (I have very small hands and pockets).
I'm looking at the Jelly Star because it's so small and cheap and mostly functional, but I wish it had a bit better of a camera.
Do you have any suggestions for something similar?
JWcph, Radicalized By DecencyRE: https://a2mi.social/@csalzman/116476592453965727
Just today I was seriously thinking this exact thing. I find myself just fucking HATING! the "modern" version of everything from music devices to kitchen appliances & wishing it was possible (which it often isn't) to just stay with gadgets that do whatever one thing they need to, do it well & include not a single digital feature or microchip of any kind...
rebeld 🇨🇦About AI generated content.
My personal thoughts are: Why?
There is SO MUCH amazing art (books/music/art/film) that already exists and new stuff that's being created solely by amazing humans everyday.
I will not be able to find/enjoy all of it in the limited time I have on this planet.
Why in the world would I want to spend any of my time on anything that just LOOKS like art? Art is not the words, the pixels, the notes, it's the human behind it.
Douglas Edwards 
Story: "Maine set to become first state with data center ban"
About damn time. The ban should be total, and existing data centers should be seized and physically dismantled.
I was once an #AI researcher. I swear that today's #LLMs and generative AI were not what I was trying to create.
The 2020s idea of "AI", and (even more) the use of it as an instrument of attempted enslavement and extermination by the #oligarchy, have turned me from an AI advocate into a #Luddite.