This is going to be iiving rent free in my head for a long time, I reckon

Via https://www.tumblr.com/katakaluptastrophy/819059880140914688?source=share

Microsoft’s terms of service said Copilot was “for entertainment purposes only.”

An Nvidia executive said AI is more expensive than humans.

Google argued in German court that everyone knows they can’t trust AI.

The tech industry has bet a trillion dollars on something they know doesn’t work.

McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

Books are 📚 ...

#bookstodon #Books

Interesting data in a blog I follow...

What are the AI platforms doing to websites like Harappa.com which have been around since the dawn of the Internet?

Like colonial powers, they happily claim territory through extra-legal procedures (although they are said to be far more intelligent than human beings, they can't understand our terms of service which kindly asks them to not crawl!). In the way they appropriate content researched and spun up by others, they are no different from the European colonial powers in the 16th through 19th centuries claiming lands and peoples with whom they had nothing in common. By force of server power and data centers instead of guns and cannon, they force themselves on the web and human knowledge, taking as much value as they can, in a way that would make Dutch and British East India companies proud.

https://www.harappa.com/blog/archaeological-site-ai-jungle

#colonialism #ai

I don't understand why the concept of economic violence isn't more mainstream. Few people seem to use it, even in academic and activist circles.

We have enough resources to give everyone a decent life. Not taking those resources to share them with everyone is a conscious choice by the state and other actors of power.

When we do austerity politics, it is a form of economic violence: common folk are asked to suffer in ways that can be extreme (and lethal) so that the rich don't have to share.

Words hold power, and labeling things correctly helps give them more meaning. Austerity is an euphemism. Economic violence is more descriptive.

#economics #violence #politics

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/116703123253059043

The museum of Hastings, UK, displays the story of Vic, a trans man, and Joan, a cis woman.
They married in 1954 and though their marriage was ruled illegal their union lasted their whole life.  

"I was moved by the lasting love Vic and Joan shared and the quietly defiant way they built a life together on their own terms.
Their story offers a rare glimpse into the life of a trans man and his partner in Hastings in the mid-20th century."

#trans #transmasc #lgbtq #history #pride