"Setting aside the moral arguments---"

You mean the power and water.

"Setting aside the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the industrial-scale plagiarism. The brazen theft.

"Setting aside the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the maniacal, suicidal inflation of the bubble. Arguably the greatest single mis-allocation of resources in history, aside from war.

"Setting aside the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the willful destruction of creative livelihoods, the willful destruction of education itself.

"Setting aside the destruction of art, writing, and schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the purposeful degradation of human cognitive capacity. The planned and designed addictive dependency.

"Setting aside the cognitive degradation, the destruction of schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water, and---"

Don't forget the ghoulish ethical camouflage used to obscure, indeed to erase, the responsibility for decisions in budget austerity, insurance claims, regulatory oversight, medical decisions, court filings, and even real-time combat.

"Setting aside the monstrous mechanisms of official irresponsibility, the cognitive degradation, the schools, the financial madness, the copyright fuckery, the power and water---"

Are you going to say it doesn't work?

"IT DOES NOT FUCKING WORK"

#ai

Happy Opt Out Of Github Copilot Data Collection Day, to those who celebrate.

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-github-copilot-interaction-data-usage-policy/

Let me be very very clear about something.

I'm not "afraid" of the set of products & services which has been labeled "Artificial Intelligence" by the tech community.

I have *never* said I'm afraid of it.

I point this out because the CEO of Superhuman, whose Grammarly product recently hallucinated advice by Nilay Patel, use a trigger word for me referencing people who are "afraid" of the slop machines.

No. I don't think people feel afraid. I think we feel exploited, and we are pissed as hell.

Here's a riddle for you:

We can spend trillions of dollars to develop AGI which is just around the corner any day now…

…but we can't figure out how to put a wallet in people's web browsers so when they read a blog post, it kicks 10¢ over to the author?

If 100 people read a blog post of mine, I'd get $10. Which is $10 more than I currently get when 100 people read my blog post.

I'm being serious! Whatever happened to web microtransactions??! I've been waiting for two decades! 😭

Just want to raise up the design of this “AI kill switch” in Firefox, and say how much I like it: it’s a top-level preference, and the design and content are both *very* clear in communicating the different levels at which you’re making decisions.

I would *love* to see more product companies roll out something like this for their en-LLM’d features.