@TheJen @FeloniousPunk @scottjenson @Gargron

The entire AI industry is built on:

*stolen art
*stolen literature (also a form of art)
*trying to get the benefits of labor without any obligation to labor.
*wallstreet techbro bullshit.

The Fediverse is INHERENTLY a space started by decentralized tech people, queer people, trans people, BIPOC people, disabled people - it has a lot, a LOT of marginalized people, a lot of artists, a lot of 'hey I am gay and marginalized in like 20 different ways' people.

Asking why we don't like AI is like going into the NAACP and asking why they don't welcome the clan. Or going into an Autism Self Advocacy Network meeting and asking why they don't like Autism Speaks. Or going to a 'No Kings' rally with a trump hat on.

THE AI BROS ARE THE ENEMY. They are indifferent to the suffering they cause at best and benefit from it at worst.

There can literally be no room for pop culture tolerance of AI anything. Give it an inch and it will literally destroy the world. (literally: AI has completely reversed all of our progress on global warming and because of what its done to the trendlines, we are on progress towards a hothouse earth at current.)

Probably not the response you wanted, but hey, AI isn't what we wanted, either.

Apparently they are thinking of replacing the bridges with famous people, and of course the predictable squabbling has already started, why does Beethoven get to be on a Euro note and not Da Vinci? Why Curie and not Cervantes? Is it an insult to France if Beethoven is on the €100 and Curie only on the €10? Blah blah blah.

Spijkenisse has shown the way. The ECB should select, completely at random, some EU town with a population between 10,000 and 100,000, national capitals excluded. Then they should commission designs of that specific town's notable buildings or local scenery.

For example, suppose Velenje, Slovenia was selected. The €200 could bear a picture of Velenje Castle. The €5 could depict the church of St. Martin.

The random selection and general irrelevance of Velenje would help forestall complaints:

* “Why does Velenje get to be on the notes, and not Acireale, Sicily?” No reason, just luck of the draw.
* “Are you saying thet Velenje is somehow more important than all the other towns in Europe?” No, of course not. It is nowhere in particular, that's the point.
* “Cornellà de Llobregat is lovely, why didn't you choose that?” Maybe next time we will!

A random town of no particular importance can be a representative of European pride in general, a sort of everytown: “Look, Europe has such a history of beauty and culture that it doesn't matter what particular place we select to represent it, this time it was Velenje but it could have been anywhere, really.”