Christine Lemmer-WebberSubmitted without commentary: "AI Might Be Our Best Shot At Taking Back The Open Web" by Mike Masnick https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/
this is just slopaganda
slopaganda (n): promoting using AI generated tools to worsen your life and everyone's life around you
Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers@cwebber But is it that, though?
Or are people still looking at it from a reactionary point of view?
Are people using this technology in ways that it shouldn’t have been intended because it was sold to them by people who wanted to maximize profit by any means necessary.
This is like saying that HTML is the devel because Palantir uses it to code their websites.
It’s like saying the compass is evil because that’s how the slave ships navigated the Atlantic Ocean.
John Mierau@majorlinux @cwebber I don't think so...
Some love AI and yes, I see people sing 'use AI against itself!' but frankly that still makes AI users dependent on it and less intelligent and critically-minded.
I just don't think you can build an activist rights-reclamation on the bones of grift, stolen rights and climate destruction.
@john Does it, though?
For some, you can’t lose what you didn’t have in the first place.
Now, I’m not saying (as I have mentioned before) that all of a sudden everyone is an artist. If you can’t draw, you can’t draw. Accept it!
But what I’m saying is that some people do have executive function or other cognitive function issues that have been solved through AI tools.
I use it to help take notes, document work I’ve done, and for reference of said notes.
@john I’ve used it to automate complex tasks that n8n or Ansible can’t really do reliably based on copious amounts of notes that I have.
There are tools out there that can help people and I feel that gets swept under the rug thanks to reactionary forces at play.
Nobody stops to think critically about the tools and what a future with them could look like that doesn’t involve the exploitative nature of capitalism.
That’s because we’re all too busy to stop and imagine a better world, period.
Dirk Willrodt@majorlinux @john and so you help a few people by exploiting the rest and distributing the actual cost of it, which is burning the planet and making many people stupider. Ist that worth it, or should we as a society have been more inclusive and helped those in need of spezial tools by providing them the tools, the old ncool way?
@Garonenur @john Or, and here me out, we create new tools that can leverage existing technologies that could help.
You make it seem like the exploitative way was the only way.
Again, this is where I say people lack imagination when it comes to seeing a society free of exploitation.
Just because OpenAI created something that destroys the planet doesn’t mean the people would have.
We have to build with intention, it profit.
@majorlinux @john the model is based on exploiting the people who created the data in the first place and the people who have to sift through it, so these LLMs don't spew racist sexist shit 80% of the time.
@Garonenur So there aren’t case amounts of data that we have at our disposal that doesn’t have it?
We can’t carefully curate what’s being trained and how we train it?
Again, if you blame the tech and not the people behind it, you let them off the hook to exploit again while we are left with nothing because we chose to villainize the people who actually have solutions to get us out while holding those accountable.