Casey Watts! (he/him) 🌈🫧

love this

“By using GenAI:

I accept the models were trained on stolen data.
I accept that the data was labeled by exploited workers.
I accept the environmental costs of the data centers running these models.
I accept that I am outsourcing some of my skills to a company.
I accept these companies don’t have a viable business model.
I accept that I am granting more power to big tech and their vision for the world.
I accept that I am granting more power to the United States.
I accept that all this effort could have been spent elsewhere.”

https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/

Any use of AI should come with a declaration like this.

If you’re okay with the ethical implications, you should be comfortable saying so out loud.

On the acceptance of GenAI

Ethics is the worst.

Joep Schuurkes
Apr 9 at 1:51pmWeb
Show threadmirabilos1d ago
@heycaseywattsup see also https://toot.mirbsd.org/@mirabilos/statuses/01KNQD9RNZM1Z2A61AZHG857MP
mirabilos (@[email protected])

Folks, I think we're now past the time where we can claim to be in the middle about generative AI usage. You're either for it and okay with intellectual theft, racism, land grabs, polluted water, higher power bills, and creating an addicted population that can't think. Let alone the building of new polluting coal/oil/gas power plants and even of millions-of-years-of-long-term-damage-and-destruction nuclear power plants, including the destruction of "one of the most green and vibrant ecosystems in Iceland", as Bjaldur noted. Oh, and the systematic exploitation of humans in mostly "the global south" for the sorting and tagging of the thieved works ("training data"), exposing them to the absolute worst of things found online, mostly in darknets. And the eso-fascism of the TESCREAL ideology behind it, active haters of humanity. I probably could continue. There’s just so much wrong with all of the current genAI/LLM and things built around it… Or you're against it. Full quote from Rachel "Red Pen" Lapidow, repeated here (and added to) so I can pin it. A few more reasons to avoid the fashtech thingy: - https://fediscience.org/@jameshowell/116309452763757936 another list - https://unstable.systems/@jneen/116302498173795149 more practically, for those wo do want to set aside all the other concerns (notwithstanding what we think about that, as shown above) - https://kolektiva.social/@sidereal/116155034249976161 another practical argument - https://mastodon.scot/@AlienAnomaly/116258275386325907 what every techbro considering using it should know - https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116150709467968620 on the plagiarism point - https://mastodon.social/@marginalia/116098502707996339 on the brain-rot point - https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116125146223980748 on the… ugh… TESCREAL point, I guess, and others: Big Tech's plan for human genocide and eugenics "Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’" - ht…

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Show threadslotos19h ago
@heycaseywattsup @hyc Literally voiced all this on a meeting, the beatings continue.