RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lz5btwu6uwtvy32toekn4t2i/post/3mlctzgug5c2e
#WritersCoffeeClub 4/21: "What's a hill you're willing to defend?"
Generational Artificial Intelligence is not needed for making human art, nor is it intelligent. It's just plagiarism software that spits out literal facsimiles of actual human art. And it's stealing from real people who have real talent and giving no-talent hacks a false sense of ownership or skill, of which they have neither. Learning IS the whole reason to make art.
Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop (on MacOS)

Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user has not even installed.
#NoGenAI protest(@Osaka, Japan)
#GenerativeAIRegulationProtests0416
#GAIRP0416
#生成AI法規制スタンディング0416
生成AIに対する罰則付きの法規制を求めます
https://www.youtube.com/live/fXhtI_qFO_M?si=dAv3C-654Gb06K3d

https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/no-agents.md
Je sais pas si ça peut marcher, mais dans le doute, ça doit valoir le coup d'essayer.
This group "The Library of Babel" is confronting the invasion of #genAI into everything we do, seems interesting:
"a nascent, international coalition of educators confronting and resisting the incursion of surveillance, automation and datafication into spaces of teaching, learning, research, and creative expression. "
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-technology-center/education/the-library-of-babel-group/
Their open letter: https://openletter.earth/an-open-letter-from-educators-who-refuse-the-call-to-adopt-genai-in-education-cb4aee75
We are a global community of education professionals who refuse the call for generative AI (GenAI) adoption in schools and colleges, and reject the narrative of its inevitability.
(I would sign it but they want my email and I can't access the terms of service to check what they want to do with it..)