bignose5d ago

@pluralistic:
“Admitting machines to the "personhood" club is a *tactical* mistake, on par with the mistake we made when we admitted *corporations* to the personhood club. We should absolutely consider expanding personhood to incorporate living things, including animals and ecosystems, but at the same time, we *must* purge these dead, artificial constructs from the club.

“[…] if we thought that some activity was unique to humans, or to living beings, and we manage to get a machine to replicate that activity, we should revise our view of the activity – not our view of the machine.”

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/05/defining-humanity/

#CorporationsAreNotPersons #DeadThingsAreNotPersons #LLMsAreNotAlive #LLMsAreNotPersons #ArtificialStupidity #LLM #HumanRights #CorporateDeathSentence

Pluralistic: Refining humanity (05 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Sjaak K. 🇳🇱🇪🇺🍋Jun 1

Mocht je denken dat #Brussel een oude stad is die al voor het jaar 1000 ontstaan is, dan heb je het mis. Want door AI je "nieuws"-artikelen te laten schrijven, blijkt Brussel ineens nog geen 200 jaar oud te zijn en niet gesticht maar geboren...

#artificialstupidity #journalistiekiseenvak

Show threadbignoseMay 29

@mathowie
> Holy crap, there really is no driver!

Except that's just a lie they want you and other riders to repeat.

#Waymo of course *does* use human drivers for their vehicles. #JustAGuy

The driver is not in the car; they're in a foreign country. Working in poor conditions for unfair pay. Responsible for multiple vehicles simultaneously. Often not qualified to drive a car on your roads.

But it *is* a human driver. Who will of course be blamed if anything goes wrong, while the corporation washes their hands. #AccountabilitySink

https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines

#ArtificialStupidity

It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines

During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Futurism
bignoseMay 29

@mathowie:
“Aging barrels takes up a lot of space that can't be used for anything else for years on end. […] the state's department of transportation spent the last few years renting out every square foot of spare warehouse space they had to dozens of distilleries, who were hungry for ever increasing storage needs to house their barrels for aging. Pretty much any building you saw near a freeway off-ramp was likely filled with bourbon barrels.

“But there's a big lag between a market saying it wants more bourbon, and when a distillery can actually sell more bourbon, a gap of at least several years. That requires distilleries to leverage themselves heavily for a payday that might only come far off in the future, if market conditions and trends continue […]

“This post is actually about A.I. Data Centers.”

https://a.wholelottanothing.org/kentuckys-bourbon-problem/

#ArtificialStupidity #RotEconomy #TheyExpectABailout #PrivatisedBenefits #SocialisedCosts

Kentucky’s Bourbon problem

Bourbon and Whiskey distilling is big in Kentucky and always has been. But it saw a huge surge in the early 2000s, so much so that customer demand outstripped how much Kentucky distilleries could even produce. There were several reasons for this, but personally I feel like everyone was getting

A Whole Lotta Nothing
bignoseMay 9

“AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. Same greed that moved factories to Bangladesh and keeps slaves in cobalt mines in the Congo. It just wears a new mask now.”

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

#Capitalism #ArtificialStupidity #LLM #RotEconomy

Programming Still Sucks. — Writing

Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.

Show threadbkApr 22
@albertcardona
#ArtificialStupidity : Fake disease edition
Sjaak K. 🇳🇱🇪🇺🍋Apr 22
Prachtig #tijdlijntoeval #artificialstupidity
Show threadMajestästbeleidigung e.V.Apr 16

@mastodonmigration @metin

We shall talk about “artificial stupidity / insanity“ consistently from now on, refusing the implied sales pitch altogether.

Maybe using the correct attribution will fix it? 💡 😇

#AIslop -> #ArtificialStupidity / ArtificialInsanity / LazyLyingMachines

Show threadbignoseApr 16

I don't know which single article you saw @mherbert, but I try to tailor my response to where the individual person is.

People have widely divergent knowledge about #GenAI and #ArtificialStupidity, because there's a *deluge* of deliberately false framing and speculation out there. Need to know what lies or hype the person has been subject to, and address those. (Attempting to head off *all* the misinformation is sure to just overwhelm the person.)

You might like this clearing house, with links targeting specific issues: https://justsayno.ai/

but I'd not send them *to* that site; instead, gently find out what they don't know.

Just Say No

We must resist the everything machine.

Show threadbkApr 10
@mattsheffield
#ArtificialStupidity : scientific literature edition