Eric McCorkleFeb 3

Something snapped into place in my mind. There is an anti-AI position that has absolutely nothing to do with luddism, or any other anti-tech position.

AI is cognitive suburbanization.

Think about it. Architecting everything so that I can't do even the most basic thing without gratuitously using a big, bloated, planet-destroying energy hog- one that *in theory* saves time, but actually just wastes it. Reducing all my options to the same generic, regurgitated, cookie cutter slop.

#AI #tech

Show threadDiane BruceFeb 4
@emc2 And the unfortunate part is some aspects of so-called AI are actually useful. The pattern matching finding disease quicker for example. (Not so much the flock aspect) AI is a marketing buzzword not a technology.
Show threadEric McCorkleFeb 4

@DianeBruce yes definitely.

The open source movement can and should develop its own directions for AI/ML, in service to its own values (not what Mozilla is doing though).

Show threadDiane Bruce
@emc2 At least Firefox got forked. No AI in Librefox
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Show threadEric McCorkleFeb 4

@DianeBruce yup! I'm switching to Libre Wolf myself.

I've also heard talk of building a browser around servo.