oh cool yet another “I’m exhausted by all the anti-AI anger” post got boosted onto my feed

please don’t let anyone gatekeep your own anger away from you, especially when your ability to exist and to make a living are both under active attack. if you’re angry because of LLM-enabled war crimes, the loss of our software commons, or any of the other wrongs the AI industry has started that never stopped, you aren’t wrong. you don’t owe the people enabling and forgiving this stuff your kindness.

and since there was some very off stuff in this last post about how “morality isn’t absolute” in “the trans discourse”, let me make something clear

the AI-critical spaces I help operate are for trans and marginalized people above all else. they are spaces with no place for people who exploit other people.

in AI and all other “discourse”, if that’s what we’re calling the trans genocide being orchestrated by the far right, I am and always will be against the side doing the exploitation.

I cannot keep doing this but since today’s has seen a number of boosts:

the people asking you to stop forcing slop and ongoing damage onto their communities are not purity testing you. they’re asking for basic human decency.

no, disliking LLMs doesn’t make you… a list of right-wing stereotypes for leftists???? is this what we’re doing now?

please don’t use ChatGPT to self-diagnose or treat medical issues. seriously, please don’t do that or advocate for it.

@zzt My response to people who keep banging on about AI being inevitable and resisting it being bad for society is to have them ask themselves, 'If you saw a man in a bar 'flirting' at someone who clearly and vocally did not want them to, someone who repeatedly stated that going home with them was inevitable and saying no was only making the night worse for both of them, you'd be repulsed right? You would interrupt, tell the staff or at the very least keep an eye on the target's drink for them. Why is that level of attack on consent acceptable here because you like the tech?'

It's not purity testing to want to be able to say no to something and have that be heard. Consent is important for society to function and it isn't being granted, the insistence that consent no longer matters because billionaires and people who want to code worse but faster want something doesn't change that fact.