Over decades, people began to embrace new media (like film and television), sports, and an ever-quickening pace of life. Books were abridged or degraded to accommodate shorter attention spans.

— Wikipedia article on Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

— a direct quote from Frank Herbert in Dune (1965)

Nowadays we have TikTok and AI. We can't even say we weren't warned, dawg, they knew 😭😭😭

Fy faen. TV2 bare overlater journalist-arbeidet sitt til en amerikansk bullshit-maskin. Jeg vet sannelig ikke om det er bedre eller verre at de rett ut innrømmer at de ikke gjør jobben sin rett i overskriften. De kan bare legge ned om det er dette de planlegger å gjøre framover.

#media #journalistikk #slafs #NorskTut

A thought that popped into my head when I woke up at 4 am and couldn’t get back to sleep…

Imagine that AI/LLM tools were being marketed to workers as a way to do the same work more quickly and work fewer hours without telling their employers.

“Use ChatGPT to write your TPS reports, go home at lunchtime. Spend more time with your kids!” “Use Claude to write your code, turn 60-hour weeks into four-day weekends!” “Collect two paychecks by using AI! You can hold two jobs without the boss knowing the difference!”

Imagine if AI/LLM tools were not shareholder catnip, but a grassroots movement of tooling that workers were sharing with each other to work less. Same quality of output, but instead of being pushed top-down, being adopted to empower people to work less and “cheat” employers.

Imagine if unions were arguing for the right of workers to use LLMs as labor saving devices, instead of trying to protect members from their damage.

CEOs would be screaming bloody murder. There’d be an overnight industry in AI-detection tools and immediate bans on AI in the workplace. Instead of Microsoft CoPilot 365, Satya would be out promoting Microsoft SlopGuard - add ons that detect LLM tools running on Windows and prevent AI scrapers from harvesting your company’s valuable content for training.

The media would be running horror stories about the terrible trend of workers getting the same pay for working less, and the awful quality of LLM output. Maybe they’d still call them “hallucinations,” but it’d be in the terrified tone of 80s anti-drug PSAs.

What I’m trying to say in my sleep-deprived state is that you shouldn’t ignore the intent and ill effects of these tools. If they were good for you, shareholders would hate them.

You should understand that they’re anti-worker and anti-human. TPTB would be fighting them tooth and nail if their benefits were reversed. It doesn’t matter how good they get, or how interesting they are: the ultimate purpose of the industry behind them is to create less demand for labor and aggregate more wealth in fewer hands.

Unless you happen to be in a very very small club of ultra-wealthy tech bros, they’re not for you, they’re against you. #AI #LLMs #claude #chatgpt

Har Aftenpoften noen spesielt god grunn til å embedde Trumps "Truth Social"-poster i artikler?

For det første er det teit å embedde fremfor å vise et skjermskudd, fordi artikkelen ikke gir mening om posten slettes eller redigeres.
For det andre så gir det legitimitet til nazi-nettverket Truth Social.
For det tredje så bidrar det til å drive trafikk dit med å senke terskelen for å besøke nettstedet.
For det fjerde aå ser det jævlig uproft ut når hele greia er dekket av GDPR-dialog.

🌱✊ C'est le #Veganuary ! Un bon moment pour parler du Black Veganism, mouvement largement méconnu en France.

Pour ça, rien de tel que de diffuser la parole d'Aph Ko, créatrice de Black Vegan Rocks (qu'elle a créé par agacement face à l'idée reçue consistant à dire que le #véganisme serait un "truc de blanc"), qui parle ici des mécaniques d'animalisation dont sont victimes les populations infériorisées, humaines comme non-humaines.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115855867913782406

The ICE response reads like some of the most DARVO shit I've ever read...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO