"I am not here to make a careful comprehensive argument, because people have already done that. I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response."
"But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html
@davidgerard "They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave."
This, this, this. Setting aside that this shit plain doesn't work, what they actually want it to do is abjectly terrible, because they are terrible people.
@davidgerard "I became a hater by doing precisely those things AI cannot do.... Only humans can be haters."
As a furry, I'm gonna put an asterisk on that last part, but I agree with the sense of it. The slop machines have no template for mimicking disagreement.
The vast majority of legends about genies show their supposed benefit ultimately turning out to be a curse, after which the genie is... with a certain amount of trouble... yes, you guessed it... put back in the bottle.
> how it is at its core a fascist technology [link to an article about how fascists happen to be fond of the technology] rooted in the ideology of supremacy [link to an article about why measurements of intelligence in humans are pseudoscientific and supremacist and just kind of extrapolating that to measurements of machine intelligence], defined not by its technical features but by its political ones [link to an article about how people who oppose use of AI in policing tend to lump AI in with a bunch of other otherwise-unrelated technologies that are also used to oppress, thus "proving" that AI as a category is flawed].
yeah ok.
> They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave.
may i kindly ask why this argument does not apply to computers in general?
@GuerillaOntologist no argument here. but you cannot make this a robot rights issue, nor can you accurately say that all artificial intelligence as a concept (even if you want to narrow that from the traditional used-since-the-60s definition of "any computer that makes a decision" to the more modern one of "any neural network") is "a fascist technology", without being wrong and sounding incredibly stupid while doing so
neural networks have legitimate uses. here's a company using a neural network (AI if you want to use the Scary Word) to identify weeds in fields using a camera and selectively burn them with lasers while leaving the crops unaffected, eliminating the need for ecologically destructive pesticides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0AqgWQzrVA
This is such a full summary of what's wrong with "AI" and expresses exactly how I feel about it.
@davidgerard
Yaaasss!!! Amazing article
And this part:
"You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you."
Yeah, no. I'm gonna think less of you, so much less of you
It has already kind of broken my heart how much less I think of those of my friends and family who use it and/or defend it
@davidgerard dang, now I need to watch Sophie From Mars' "Our Shiny New Robot King" again
I guess it's the only other piece of content I've seen with this level of vitriolic contempt for the whole thing because, similarly, she cuts right through the whole "techy faff" and goes to talking about the type of future the people pushing these things are trying to construct and how they see themselves in it
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