Furthermore, I could not, in any semblance of good faith, hand over server infrastructure to an organisation (esp one under severe adversarial pressure) that has been deployed with the assistance of an 'agentic' AI. This would be completely unethical because I could not speak from the infrastructure with knowledge, that it was capable and safe to house them and their work.

Trust comes from knowledge. There is no knowing a black box.

To echo some of my favourite poetry from Neck Deep:

"A symptom of this state
A consequence of madness
An overwhelming sense
of an underlying sadness
...
It could be so tight,
it could be so sick
It just ain't right
and it just ain't this
We need more fight
and we need more grit
We need more punks
and we need more bricks"

@FediThing @Em0nM4stodon @markwyner Yeah, I mean technology is designed and inspired by our societal norms. So consent does take a backdoor, particularly when it comes to our populations. It is rape culture rather than consent culture.

It's why I wrote consent and the fediverse about threads a few years ago.

https://www.onepict.com/consent-fediverse20230627.html

It's also why I wrote AI and that guy at the bar.

https://dotart.blog/cobbles/ai-and-that-guy-at-the-bar

Big tech and it's boosters love to ignore our boundaries.

https://www.onepict.com/20230906-boundaries.html