@hbons @thomasfuchs still happy to see that the EU is trying to do something about unmarked AI content, though! Hopefully non-EU countries will follow suit, and people will keeping working on ways to deal with all the AI slop/hallucinations floating around the internet.

@hbons @thomasfuchs It's a step forward, but it's not good enough. When I searched for information about that law, one of the first results was a marketing firm called Weventure talking about how they can "make sure your AI-powered content doesn't have to come with a warning label." I'm not linking to them because I don't want to boost their SEO. Basically, they're going to do just enough human review to get around the law.

right now, i just need to say what i think.

i don't think i can scream in public, so i'm just going to post my unfiltered thoughts about ai here. i'll also post my random thoughts about marketing bs that are a little too rude for linkedin. i'll look at ideas people are proposing for making the internet and other things better. and i'll probably comment on plenty of posts that aren't related to any of this at all, because i'm a human with other interests and i like seeing other, more positive things on social media too.

ai is a fucking religion. it seems you cannot say anything too negative about it on linkedin or in work-related spaces. if you criticize it at all, you'd better immediately qualify your complaint with some bootlicking statement about how you're "still like ai for x purpose" or "use ai every day" or whatever. sometimes i really wonder how many people buy into roko's basilisk.

maybe i'm just a chicken for not speaking up about llms under my own name, but also i need to earn a living. i admire the journalists and other people on mastodon who are doing what i'm afraid to do. maybe one day i'll have the courage to join them. but i'm not that financially secure, and ubi doesn't seem to be coming for me anytime soon. i need work. i don't feel like i can afford to say anything too controversial about the tools that virtually every company is using now unless i'm anonymous.

i'd like an llm-free job, but those are rare-to-nonexistent in the lines of work i'm qualified for, especially those that pay at least subsistence wages. i'm working toward changing careers, but there will be at least small doses of llms even in my new career. i'm told that even plumbers sometimes use llms these days. (yikes, wtf is an llm going to tell them to do to my pipes?)