I'd kinda hoped that #Fluxer would be a good #Discord replacement, but the original developer is way too permissive on LLM shit to trust. Fuck that.

#AntiAI #NoAI

Kobo rejected 45% of submissions to its self-publishing platform because they were AI-genned. (and that’s just what they rejected).

It’s TOUGH to be a writer right now 😭

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/publishing-industry-ai-shy-girl-fallout-9.7155292

#antiai #writing #writers

How the publishing industry is navigating a surge of AI-generated content | CBC News

The recent cancelling of a horror novelist's book demonstrates the conundrum that literary professionals face as they comb through every pitch, query letter and manuscript lobbed their way: how do you separate the proverbial wheat from the AI-generated chaff, and what happens if you get it wrong?

CBC

I'd say we should treat "vibe coding experts" the same way we treat any other faith-based "expert" but we still haven't rid our societies of religious bullshit so I guess we're just gonna chain nonsense along until humanity dies off from weaponized ignorance.

#NoAI #AntiAI #vibecoding

2.7 million people in India have been removed from the electoral register using an "AI-driven process" and they are now in electoral limbo with an election coming up later this month.

The leadership aren't sorry or anything, they say it's to combat election fraud.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy51qg00dezo

#politics #AI #antiAI #india

SIR in West Bengal: How exclusion of nine million voters could shape state politics

Nine million voters have been dropped from rolls in West Bengal, raising concerns over exclusion and fairness.

BBC News

@patrickcmiller

Like the case often presented by #AntiAi adherents, Stanciuc is cherry picking facts.

Firstly, she presents no supporting evidence for the headline "Ai....is making us worse at thinking"

There are two preprint studies, which antagonists use; the MIT EEG study with unpublished data values and tiny cohort, and the joke of a "study" that got a lot if traction because of a punchy title "cognitive offliading" garbage.
Notably, Stanciuc is smart by not using ANY evidence for her key headliner hook, because these two studies are the "strongest" support for her thesis, so she remains silent.

Second;
The #GoldmanSachs study is should be taken with a trailer full of salt. It's like a GS study on agriculture analysing human flesh sourced organic fertiliser. GS are some of the worst human beings on the planet, their every waking moment motivated by greed.

The "Ai has no macroeconomic impact" exactly mirrors the PC IT introduction to business.
There was no macroeconomic impact for 15 years.
So that's an argument, albeit not very strong by Stancic. Any analysis if "Ai has no macro impact" that does not mention Solow's Paradox (No Macro effect) is using incomplete, foundational data.

Third;
And this is the only credible argument she presents, there is evidence that Ai users suffer fatigue.
Its root cause is context switching.
And the reason for it us tools and workflows are not fully integrated with #Ai so the users have to switch to clay tablets and reed stylus.
Before I started using #Claudecode I was copy pastaing like savage which was super annoying.

"Using Ai is a learned skill"

#aislop #psychology #aieconomies #regulateai #llm

Second Chance Sunday! In which I reblog an old post I’m proud of! This is the one that got Meta to accuse me of being a bot. Which is ironic almost to the point of funny, given the #antiai metaphor therein. #scs

https://kathrynthornwood.com/blog/the-beast-that-devoured-the-internet/

The Beast that Devoured the Internet

So the beast ate the internet, digesting the individual pieces curated and created with love.

Welcome to the Thornwood

Fuck data centres, all my homies hate data centres.

#fuckai #antiai

Tom’s Hardware: The largest programming community on Reddit just banned all content related to AI LLMs — r/programming is prioritizing only high-quality discussions about AI. “The solutionism surrounding artificial intelligence has ironically made people even more apprehensive about the concept, forcing people to push back in whatever ways they can against the onslaught of generative slop. As […]

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Tom’s Hardware: The largest programming community on Reddit just banned all content related to AI LLMs — r/programming is prioritizing only high-quality discussions about AI

Tom’s Hardware: The largest programming community on Reddit just banned all content related to AI LLMs — r/programming is prioritizing only high-quality discussions about AI. “The solut…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose
If you're going to read one book, this is a good one! It covers a surprising amount of the completely nonsense assumptions around AI that have somehow seeped into everyday life, mapping it way back to when such cults of thought started. Crucially, it is written by a scientist with competence in the social sciences and a love of sci fi, so when he details the fantasies so accurately and then tells you what is actually true, you believe him. #antiai #capitalism #books