Chris Dwan (he/him)Feb 27
Look, I think it’s nice that a smattering of #$GOOG and OpenAI folks signed an open letter saying they agree with Anthropic’s absolute bottom-of-the-barrel last-minute discovery of an ethical line that they are unwilling to cross. But, like, don’t give them too much credit okay? notdivided.org 1/?

We Will Not Be Divided
We Will Not Be Divided

Employees of Google and OpenAI stand together to refuse the Department of War's demands to use AI models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.

Show threadChris Dwan (he/him)Feb 27
Recall that this entire tech stack was built on the colonizer playbook of “steal shit and get rich enough off of it that you never face consequences.” They stole the intellectual output of a generation and smirked, thumb-up-ass, as they paid us pennies. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com 2/?

Homepage
Homepage | Bartz v Anthropic Settlement Site

Show threadChris Dwan (he/him)Feb 27
Recall also that everybody is absolutely 100% eyes open about the fact that these fuckos are knowingly crashing the economy, doing massive psychological harm, and may without exaggeration be hastening the collapse of human civilization as we have known it. bsky.app/profile/some... 3/?

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xkngkuljerb2mnflvfdolyro/post/3mfoqlx4cms2d
Show threadChris Dwan (he/him)
The only reason they’re objecting -now- is that the face eating leopard is at their -own- door, smirking right back at them with guns and the power of a nation state. So -now- they discover an ethical line … well past kiddie porn, suicide coaching, and hyper-stalking. bsky.app/profile/some... 4/?

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xkngkuljerb2mnflvfdolyro/post/3mfsdrds5z224
Feb 27 at 11:50pmWeb
Show threadChris Dwan (he/him)Feb 27
I’ve known for not less than 30 years (when I took the class below) that - in the words of Ani Difranco - every tool is a weapon if you hold it right. But like, you coulda signed this letter when they stole the life’s work of every living artist. You coulda. bsky.app/profile/some... 5/?

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xkngkuljerb2mnflvfdolyro/post/3lobe2v5lns2e
Show threadChris Dwan (he/him)Feb 28
And you know who I don’t see on this list of late-to-the-party-but-hey-welcome-have-a-beer objectors? Anybody from whatever the fuck Musk’s AI company is called now. That’s the -plan- you see … give it all to Musk. bsky.app/profile/some... 6/?

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xkngkuljerb2mnflvfdolyro/post/3lhec6loufk2u
Show threadChris Dwan (he/him)Feb 28
I’m gonna go unplug for a few hours, as I do most Friday nights to sit with friends at an undisclosed location with no screens and many snacks. When I come back I’m sure that some tech asshole will be praising the shine on their own dome for finding moral courage at this late hour. Fuck that. 7/7