ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES#AaronSwartz killed himself because he scraped research data and they aggressively prosecuted him.
Now #AI companies say they should scrape our data for free.
Spooky Frank@benroyce AI is like Aaron Swartz, got it.
both whaling boats and whale watching boats head toward pods of whales, and are alike in this way
but after that, things are, uh, how shall we say, rather different in goals and outcome
@benroyce Swartz’s activism and AI both provide free, easy, and open access to information. Both seek empowerment through technology. Both challenge traditional gatekeepers. Both lead to the broader dissemination of knowledge. It’s tired and boring to assume AI is wrong and bad when billions benefit from it every day.
oh boy
#AI is useless shit. it's essentially the same as #crypto: hype but the substance is less genuine #tech advance and more a certain class of #techbro buying in on enthusiasm, the only difference being the mark for the con job is #FAANG rather than sad randos playing a casino
AI is going the way of 3D TV
Also
"Swartz’s activism and AI both provide free, easy, and open access to information" is some of the dumbest shit I read in awhile
Bye
@benroyce I love that these types can’t go one reply without being rude and insulting.
small, primitive, wingless@silverfish https://defcon.social/@frank_w/112819737363381002
This is what I said. You believe it's right to hate and abuse people who think this way?
Frank (@[email protected])
@[email protected] Swartz’s activism and AI both provide free, easy, and open access to information. Both seek empowerment through technology. Both challenge traditional gatekeepers. Both lead to the broader dissemination of knowledge. It’s tired and boring to assume AI is wrong and bad when billions benefit from it every day.
@frank_w your characterization of unverifiable AI slop as "information" is contemptible
@frank_w to promote it is a form of abuse and it is epistemically correct to hate people, and ethically correct to ostracize people, who do so
please resile from this nonsense and maybe you'll eventually stop waiving your inherent value as a human being
please resile from this nonsense and maybe you'll eventually stop waiving your inherent value as a human being