RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116371937587992264

I think the way I would put it is:

1) The point of the AI project is ideological; the goal is to reshape industries such that we are dependent on AI companies' products, and to destroy free and open knowledge such that we are dependent on these products for thought and reasoning. We see an injection of AI into cybersecurity, while simultaneously drawing money and resources away from (boring) efforts that would actually broadly improve cybersecurity.¹ We see an injection of AI into knowledge acquisition, while simultaneously polluting the landscape of the internet as a useful source of knowledge. Both are in service of the same ideological project, and working towards the same goal.

2) The touted usefulness of AI for programming and cybersecurity is directly funding the project to expand it everywhere else, where it is causing massive harms to civil society, individuals' mental health, and the information landscape. You or your company paying for these products is keeping investment money flowing and extending the runway, for AI companies to reach that point of "indispensability". There is no divorcing your cool shiny toy from the creation of AI deepfakes that destroy democracy, or the AI psychosis that destroys lives. This is because the AI companies are pursuing an ideological project that ultimately has nothing to do with improving people's work or their lives; the leaders of these companies have loudly and publicly said that very clearly. You are laundering the reputation of these companies and keeping them alive, when the only moral option is to destroy them.

I've said this elsewhere, but: Maybe you, who are reading this, is offended by this framing, because you use and enjoy the AI tools. But it's also likely that you, and many other technologists, take moral abdication almost as a point of pride, where the only thing that matters is "capability". In that case, I don't understand the defensive response. Why are you uncomfortable being described as the thing you're bragging to be?

#fuckAI

¹ The stark contrast: The breathless and brainless promotional posts about Glasswing came into my feed at the same time as the posts about the final gutting of CISA. https://www.securityweek.com/white-house-seeks-to-slash-cisa-funding-by-707-million/

Her: I am not sure if you're trying to present as a man or as a butch lesbian

Me: I'm presenting as a human being.

Her: that isn't enough for me to figure it out

Me: figure out what?

Her:

Me:

Her: are you a boy or a girl?

Me: oh I'm an adult but if you're really curious gender isn't one of the social constructs I really vibe with

Her: what social constructs do you vibe with?

Me: pretty cool with North, South, East, West, but I'm kinda not going to participate in Up and Down or Left and Right in socially acceptable ways sometimes

Her: the cardinal directions aren't a social construct

Me: they are

For the last time before I delete my #facebook account without getting a proper dump of data for future biographers: does anyone know a tool for scrapping the contents of my comment history and #messenger conversations (since their native way of doing it of course does not work)? Many thanks in advance and so on.

#askfedi

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/812865840434364416
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

and I also drew this comic instead of doing them :'D

#furryart #taxes #comic #procrastination