Aline Blankertz1d ago

What are good examples of concrete acts of resistance against "AI"? I am putting together an overview and am surely missing great stuff!

I have:
Data centre opposition (thx to @gerrymcgovern )
Examples of sabotage from @asrg
Some ideas about practical refusal from @danmcquillan

Also everyday acts are great (such as not following orders to use "AI") if they are documented somewhere, somehow. Most references tend to be rather vague (e.g. in this otherwise great article
https://restofworld.org/2026/techno-negative-thomas-dekeyser-fighting-ai/)

Why refusing AI is a fight for the soul

Author Thomas Dekeyser explains why modern resistance to Big Tech is a deeply sane response to a narrow vision of humanity.

Rest of World
Show threadAnne Pasek1d ago

@alineblankertz @asrg @danmcquillan

Getting limits on the use of AI put into one's union contract!

Limiting the collection of data that can be used in training/the legal access of such data for training/the legal commercialization or copyright of model outputs.

Tarrif structures that ensure that data centers have to pay their full share of grid infrastructure costs.

Synthetic text limitation policies at work/in journals.

Scorn and shame :)

Show threadAnne Pasek

@alineblankertz @asrg @danmcquillan Most of these are from my little commentary on a discard studies approach to AI. Basically, it's helpful to also attack the enabling conditions rather than (just) regulate consumer use.

Paywalled (☹️): https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jem_00138_1

Preprint: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gg9PclZewhipEOknbCHHN1VI9Hpt27SI/view?usp=sharing

AI is trash | Intellect

This commentary discusses the rise of generative machine learning tools (so-called artificial intelligence [AI]) and their joint informational and environmental harms. It takes the argumentative stance that most AI today can be usefully described as a kind of trash, both in terms of the quality of its outputs and its proliferating social and ecological costs. Extending the analogy further, it explores how the AI trash problem is best approached like other discard problems, namely by pursuing policy solutions that address the preconditions for waste rather than relying on individual awareness or moral judgements about consumer behaviours to fix injustices. It concludes with a few directions to this end as well as a call for coalition-making on the part of environmentalists and tech critics.

Mar 28 at 1:34pmWeb
Show threadAline Blankertz1d ago
@Aepasek
Thank you!
Show threadHadokowa1d ago

@alineblankertz

@Aepasek

I install this ublock list on every machine, it (among many things) removes ai results from search engines, which are often the entry door for people..

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

GitHub - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist: A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist.

A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

GitHub
Show threadPenguin Rebellion18h ago

@hadokowa

An excellent list that sadly seems to become outdated (maintenance has stalled, for unknown reasons).

While waiting for an update, you might consider using this fork:

https://codeberg.org/just_a_husk/uBlockOrigin-AI-Blocklist/

@alineblankertz @Aepasek

uBlockOrigin-AI-Blocklist

Fork and expansion of laylavish' AI blocklist on github. Manually curated blocklist for uBlock Origin and uBlacklist aiming to remove ai results from search engine results. Currently supports DDG, Bing, Google, Startpage and Brave.

Codeberg.org
Show threadMrGrumpyMonkey15h ago
@penguinrebellion @hadokowa @alineblankertz @Aepasek Just added this to my Pi-Hole. Thanks.
Show threadDźwiedziu5h ago

@mrgrumpymonkey
There is a downside if you're using voice transcription tools. As it seems many of the devs of those have been bitten by the “AI” zombie and many models are hosted on face hugger (hugginface).

(Ask me how I know \s)

@penguinrebellion @hadokowa @alineblankertz @Aepasek