buc.ci is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
Are you tired of so-called AI features being pushed on everyone everywhere?
Do you obstinately refuse to use these unethical technologies out of moral principles?
Do you write to your government representatives to tell them to oppose citizens' data being fed to proprietary corporate AI?
Are you part of the Slopposition? ✊
| Yes! I sloppose! ✊: | 114 |
| No, I slop a bit 🤖: | 19 |
| I neither sloppose nor slop: | 7 |
Closes in 4:16:02:06
OMFG this sales pitch is so INFURIATING
"need to market your product? how about starting a blog! No writing creativity time involved at all! Just say hey #AI make me a BLOG and it will you never even have to listen to it! Your customers will not know the difference! we spend nothing on education they grew up with flawed information nothing can be trusted so no one knows what is true anymore its all crap they're all crap your crap and your crap is crap."
There is so much disinformation in the world right now.
And in recent years, all of it gets amplified by AI web scrapers that eat it up to spit it out at a later date, in an inappropriate context.
Be careful what data you add to the slop soup on April 1st.
The world is in dire need of more truths and knowledge these days, not the opposite.
If you're feeling discouraged fighting against this fresh "AI" hell we're dealing with daily now,
I recommend listening to this awesome podcast by @DAIR to lift your spirits.
You're not alone in this battle
Available on PeerTube!
https://peertube.dair-institute.org/c/mystery_ai_hype_theater/videos
#NoAI #AI #MysteryAIHypeTheater3000 #PeerTube #Podcast #Fediverse
I wrote a new blog post! ✍️
Lighten your load: The power of treating social media posts as ephemeral
A social media post's window of relevance is extremely short. But being hoarders by nature, we have a hard time letting go of our post history — much to the delight of AI scrapers and enshittificators. Here are a few thoughts on the benefits of traveling light.
https://blog.bestiaexmachina.com/why-social-media-posts-should-be-ephemeral
I just want simple tools that do one thing well. The tool must get the fuck out of the way of what I'm trying to accomplish. It also must reject LLMs in its development.
So when I look around at code editors I'm kinda fucked. Vim is AI slop. Emacs isn't yet, but it's also not a simple tool that does one thing well. Almost every IDE that's cross platform enough for my needs either gets in my way or is fully embracing AI slop.
😡
@michael yeah, I shared the user agent yesterday after I went to GitHub and saw it was added. They also pushed a pr yesterday to respect #noai in profiles. it's somewhere lost in the thread with my replies.
https://oldfriends.live/@paul/116313891550626767
Yes, #BlueSky has decided it was a good idea to integrate Claude AI. Please don’t be uppity to any refugees coming to the fediverse; they’re on the same #NoAI team as you
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/bluesky-leans-into-ai-with-attie-an-app-for-building-custom-feeds/
@maddad Just looked, and they also added a #NoAI tag for Mastodon
🔗 Add #noai to Mastodon opt-out bio tags
https://github.com/seldo/zeitgeist/commit/90b09ad6f683d7059ef4a5c4a3883704a7e71057
@mastodonmigration
That might be something good for people to add to their bios
Imagine your boss saying "Look, the genie is out of the bottle. We may not like it, but everybody else is using slave labor, too. So we can no longer afford not to use it ourselves..." and handing you a brand-new whip along with a voucher for a highly reputable slave-whipping course next week.
Yes, this is exactly about what you think it is about. Just how happy are you with yourself for taking that whip and attending that course?
Hello!
I'm a senior software engineer with ~19 years of professional experience, specialising in low-level systems programming, embedded, infrastructure, and performance-critical software.
I've worked across kernel-level, embedded, and application layers. I've done everything from small time application work to environments where problems are complex, failure is expensive, and correctness matters.
Selected experience:
My core skills:
What I bring to the table:
What I'm looking for:
If you or your company are building infrastructure, systems software, or anything performance-sensitive, I'm likely to be a strong fit 🙂.
New blogpost:
"Implementing the somewhat whimsical human.json protocol on my website"
A bit of whimsty, or a lust for human connection in a sea of slop?
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/google-says-new-turboquant-compression-can-lower-ai-memory-usage-without-sacrificing-quality/
If they can't make it disappear entirely, I'm not interested. #NoAI
No more #Maine #DataCenters for now, lawmakers say
Lawmakers advanced a measure that drew attention last month when one senator said it could kill a previously unannounced project in Sanford.
by Daniel Kool, Posted March 5, Updated March 6, 2026
"Maine lawmakers voted Thursday to advance a bill that would stop the development of new data centers in the state for more than a year.
"The bill, #LD307, would create a temporary limitation on data centers with electric loads of at least 20 megawatts by preventing the state, local governments and quasi-governmental agencies from issuing permits or other approvals until 90 days after the first session of the 133rd Legislature adjourns.
"That will likely be around October 2027, the bill’s sponsor, said Rep. Melanie Sachs, D-Freeport.
"That would give a new “Data Center Coordination Council,” also created by the bill, time to study and review the potential impacts of building the centers in Maine. The Department of Energy Resources would be responsible for convening the body.
"Sachs has said the restriction is designed to address future growth without impeding projects that are already well underway, such as one pegged for the former Loring Air Force Base.
"Members of the Legislature’s Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee have debated the bill for weeks.
"On Thursday, they voted 8-5 in favor of passing the bill with amendments, sending it to the broader Legislature. The committee vote fell along party lines, with Democrats supporting the measure."
Read more:
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/03/05/no-more-maine-data-centers-for-now-lawmakers-say/
#SanfordME #JayME #LewistonME #WiscassetME #AWS #NoDatacenters #NoAI #MainePol #UnrestrictedGrowth #WaterIsLife #NoisePollution
Please boost! Please share! #fedihire #fedihired #jobs #infosec #noai
I am Kim Crawley and I research and write about all areas of cybersecurity. I do it the "old fashioned" way by actually using my brain and doing the work... No Gen AI! Fuck Gen AI! I hate Gen AI! I founded Stop Gen AI!
I've worked for:
- Siemens (Digital Industries World)
- BlackBerry Cylance
- Kaspersky
- Hack The Box
- O'Reilly Media
- Wiley Tech
- AT&T Cybersecurity
My portfolio is here: https://kimcrawley.com
- Whitepapers
- Blogs
- Documentation
- Books
- Threat analysis
- Enterprise cybersecurity instruction and consulting
I'm in Tribe of Hackers.
I cowrote The Pentester Blueprint.
I'm writing Technofascism Survival Guide now, successful Kickstarter is still taking late pledges for $12 USD eBooks: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide
Email me: kim(dot)crawley(at)stopgenai.com
Signal: crowgirl.84
Or reply here.
Does anyone have any links, podcasts, video, especially writing on deeply examining #AI/LLMs in non copyright spaces? Like, as an example, I’m in the fan fiction community a lot. Yes, of course there are loads of people that will happily generate slop in those/these spaces, but it seems to never be willingly promoted by readers. If it is promoted, it’s purely accidental and or the output was so heavily edited that it transformed into human writing again. This could be purely personal experience but in my case, I find that it really is not a big thing in those spaces. In short, everyone gives it the middle finger by not even acknowledging its existence in those spaces. Not a head in the sand kind of way but just a collective discussing great work instead. The AI evangelist seem to be very bored of these kinds of spaces and I’m trying to figure out if it’s personal experience or not #NoAI #LLM #AntiAI
Whether you are concerned or not about the harm caused by the technologies pushed on us with the current AI Hype, I highly recommend watching this excellent interview by 404 Media's @samleecole with @alex and @emilymbender from the DAIR Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwBZiuH-1QY
And I say "whether you are concerned or not" because this will affect you one way or another, whether you care about it or not. In fact, it very likely already does.
If you are enabling an AI feature scanning all your emails, consider this will also scan the emails people have sent you. This information could include personal or otherwise legally protected information.
If this data leaks later (as it regularly happens with these systems), this could mean severe legal consequences for you down the road.
YOU are responsible for protecting the data of others under your custody.
This includes the messages and emails others send to you.
AI corporations can't get your money, because most people don't want to pay for that. And they need a lot of money to justify their investment.
So they're going after government contracts, with their powerful network of lobbyists. That way, your government can give them your money anyway. To pay for that, they will very likely cut in public services.
If you don't want that to happen, email or call your government representatives.
I just bought a hardcover copy of The AI Con, written by @alex and @emilymbender.
I'm so glad I heard about this book. I can't wait to start reading it!
📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/fY58xbuQSxzwo7JjEYTNAo
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://adalta.info/articles/prstn_train_116267687972571594_fr)
🔗 [ℹ️](https://drive.proton.me/urls/Y3BC8VRM5W#8iFtEU282Xzm")
Une enquête apparemment banale bascule lorsque des indices numériques mènent à un lieu inattendu, révélant une possible manipulation délibérée.
📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/3PZfTwuKH7zzbEX81Bir2o
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://adalta.info/articles/prstn_train_116267687972571594_en)
🔗 [ℹ️](https://drive.proton.me/urls/Y3BC8VRM5W#8iFtEU282Xzm")
A narrative-driven comic leverages decentralized platforms to build suspense while its core digital artifact remains strategically inaccessible.
📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/oYstrBd3ADVYm3sDmN5kmm
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://adalta.info/articles/prstn_train_116267687972571594_de)
🔗 [ℹ️](https://drive.proton.me/urls/Y3BC8VRM5W#8iFtEU282Xzm")
Ein investigativer Comic nutzt Proton Drive, um eine verschleierte Handlung zu verbreiten und verweist auf ein gelöschtes Dokument.
Slop in, even worse slop out.
Axios: Autoscience is using AI to make AI models
Well, that's depressing. :(
https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware
List of #FOSS projects using #slop (yes, including the Linux kernel and of COURSE systemd)
RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/116250071570386557
Können wir JETZT bitte Spotify canceln?
Dass sie
- Künstler unterbezahlen
- Random Podcasts auslöschen
- Ki " Musik " zulassen
Und
- Werbung für ICE in den USA schalten, hat ja noch nicht gereicht.
Aber der 0-8-15 User wird das auch noch nutzen und wie so'n batteriebetriebener Klatschaffe die Hände aneinanderhauen und sinnentleert grinsen, während vor allem kleinen Künstlern jegliche Grundlage für ein auskommendes Schaffen zerstört wird.
Government backtracks on AI training opt-out. A welcome U-turn from Labour but really it should never have got this far. Did they ever even ask anyone outside of the tech bro / government minister love-in?
Planen fungerer:
"Nvidia CEO says AI hate is extremely hurtful and has done a lot of damage"
https://tech4gamers.com/nvidia-ceo-ai-hate-extremely-hurtful/
#FediBlock @askew and @Xavier
First account is an LLM abusing the instance, and the second account is the orchestrator of the abuse.
Most instances classify stuff like this as service abuse as well, so I would report liberally
Do you see that ocean of bright lights in the middle of this photo? Those are the data centers near the airport. And this is what I hate most about data centers near where I live: they light them up like Christmas trees every night. Apparently, they're not high tech enough to have Security that doesn't rely on lighting up the place like daylight. While everyone is whining about #SpaceX putting up #satellites to clutter the night sky, I would just like to SEE the night sky. #FuckAI #NoAI
@404mediaco Therefore, so-called Third places become more and more important: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
Backblaze are increasing their storage costs per TB by 15%
In a normal world, price per terabyte would fall as a consequence of greater storage density and better power efficiency. A world with AI and a brewing oil crisis is not like that.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@cR0w/116244751172093572
I am now on the hunt for a honey badger to see if it can in fact code.
AodeRelay boostedI understand not being an absolutist against all things AI. It's wrong, but I understand. What I don't understand is people who think that those of us avoiding shit with AI or created by AI are irrational or some other offensive term. I don't see how it's different than avoiding code written by a literal honey badger. Neither the honey badger nor the AI know how to code and having them do so shows a lack of fucks given for the quality of the output. That's ( part of ) why we avoid it.
CMY Delaunay Triangles on Waves, where triangles dance and flow along undulating curves of white space.
CMY on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.
Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/cmy-delaunay-triangles-on-waves/
#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #PlotterTwitter #NoAI
CMY Delaunay Triangles on Waves with large gem-like triangles and bold black outlines, giving depth and sparkle.
CMY on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.
Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/cmy-delaunay-triangles-on-waves/
#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #PlotterTwitter #NoAI
Today, for #green week at work, we’re being advised to save the planet by not using reply-all on emails unless it’s strictly necessary to include everyone. This from the people who’ve spent the past few weeks posting AI slop images of biscuits. #ai #aislop #NoAI #environment #eco #carbon #globalwarming #climatechange
Yesterday my VPS set off a warning, as it was hit by a huge spike in incoming traffic, peaking at 55GB at 2:15pm and lasting for an hour.
Upon investigating, it turns out it was my PeerTube instance that was targeted.
Where did the traffic come from?
meta-externalagent (aka Meta's web crawler which is used to grab content to train its AI system).
I feel a little bit violated thinking my Fediverse promo video was grabbed by it, sigh.
Is this product 'human made'? The race to establish AI-free logo // BBC
Open Slopware
“Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.”
I have some mixed feelings on the commons, LLMs, ownership and economics. Would love some input.
I find this hard to navigate so I hope you all can extend me some grace if I mess up. Happy to read and engage, please send links. So... here goes:
I'm seeing a lot of reactions to LLM value extraction that stand on copyright, or where people are reducing their contribution to the commons as a response. This feels like throwing the game to me: the worst move in a hard situation.
I would like to thank the nascent "AI" industry for their significant contributions to all manner of artistic and creative endeavours in today's society: writing, coding, art, music, and everything else. [1]
Because they have single-handedly created entire new markets for all of these things - new categories such as "writing with guaranteed no AI", "coding with guaranteed no AI", "art with guaranteed no AI", "music with guaranteed no AI", etc. Without them, these whole classes of creative output would simply not exist.
[1] They are also innovating in the world of financial and investor fraud, but I'm not considering those areas in this post.
#AI #LLM #GenerativeAI #slop #NoAI #artistic #creative #GTFO #fraud #InvestorFraud #CoPilot #ChatGPT #ClaudeCode
Hey there, some personal news: I've decided to move on and am therefore looking for a new job starting July.
I loved serving as a program manager with open source projects involving some of the most brilliant software developers out there.
In a future job, I'd like to continue working near the intersection of open source, funding, business, policy and the societal impact of digital technology. But that's a small niche and so I hope that this post might open some doors through my contacts here. Are there OSS foundations or (non-) government orgs looking for staff?
Being a software developer at heart, I have been excited about tech all my life and later found myself involved in various software projects and business ventures big and small. I speak both fluent Nerd and fluent Business and frequently helped translating between the two during my career.
I'm aware that my requirements are a strong filter: Part-time and remote, German timezone. I'm also fairly unenthusiastic about the current generative AI / LLM hype and would prefer to work outside of that bubble.
If you have possible leads, I'd be grateful to hear about it. Thanks in advance and thanks for sharing.
CMY herringbone, with simplicity in texture and color, reminding me of colorful bird feathers or blankets.
CMY on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.
Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/shop-cmy-herringbone-series/
#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI
Another CMY herringbone, reminding me of being in a framing store and seeing all the frame corners stacked.
CMY on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.
Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/shop-cmy-herringbone-series/
#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI
Last CMY herringbone. There’s an interesting optical illusion where the gutter between looks wavy to me.
CMY on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.
Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/shop-cmy-herringbone-series/
#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI
News! #EVi is set to appear in @the 's #NoAI list in their April update!
https://forge.starlightnet.work/Team/No-AI/commit/74c2c286497b10d561141c6335423f263e97fed0
The #future of #Microsoft #Windows is downright terrifying. If their previous OS releases haven't motivated you to switch to #Linux or some kind of #BSD, then after watching this video I think you will be.
Some growing key questions here really are:
How to defend or adapt disciplines (not just artistic/cultural ones) against this kind of semantic hollowing out of what it means to have skills, experience and expertise in a(ny) field...
What approaches, qualities and "values" (physical, ethical, social/humanist, environmental, resource use) should we (or still can we) be focusing on, which are much harder and more costly for AI companies to mine/extract & subvert?
How to defend actual skills against the emulation of skills, or rather just the appearance of skills? How could a society even function if it only encourages and celebrates the latter?
What does society actually value in art/creativity/culture? If art is free to produce (of course that'll always only ever be an illusion!), funding, possession, collection & speculation of new work would also become meaningless (and only benefit pre-AI era works/collectors). In the larger picture, what do people actually value in culture, politics and striving for more peaceful existence which enables more of the former (pluralistic art/culture) in the first place?
What will be the combined impact of AI & robotics on fields which are currently still thinking themselves more safe (from exploitation) because there's a strong physical element/process to them?
Will art/culture/craft become more performance, experiential/ephemeral again only? Like music before recordings or Buddhist sand paintings with an explicit act of destruction at the end as key philosophical concept? Both of which also have more of a social element to them...
The Samsara Mandala
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL8gEc29KTI
#CriticalAI #AI #NoAI #LLM #Ephemeral #Art #Culture #Samsara
@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante
am not in any way connected to work that involved #NoAI but i am and try to vocalize my vehement #FUCKAI vibes
https://tecnopolitica.blog.br/#podcast
Episódio imperdível do #podcast de @samadeu@mastodon.social a ser compartilhado com quem ainda não estiver por dentro desses conceitos.
#ética #NoAI #LLM #Anthropic #OpenAI #soberaniaDigital #Serpro #nuvem #BigTech #Google #AWS #Microsoft #Oracle #Palantir #CloudAct #tecnopolítica #tecnologia
Hey @peter
You developed Gecko and you have shared my posts before.
My political activism group Stop Gen AI and @alexia both keep lists of Gen AI-free software.
I tend to recommend LibreWolf and Tor Browser, which are both, as you probably know much better than I do, forks of Firefox and great grandchildren of the versions of Firefox with Gecko you were directly a part of.
Whereas Alexia and some other devs are concerned that with the Gen AI fuckery Mozilla is into these days (none of us trust the new Firefox AI "killswitch" at all) will make it difficult for the developers of Firefox forks to continue to keep Gen AI out of their browsers.
As, to the best of my knowledge, all currently supported web browsers for modern endpoints use either Firefox or Chrome/Chromium "upstream," and we know how evil Google is... There may be a need for a new web rendering engine from scratch that is led by a team that takes a principled stance against Gen AI and overall privacy violations.
I have no idea how willing or not you're able to work on web engine development again, but at the very least, you would be able to advise me about how to find people who can develop a new web engine.
Obviously, we keep this FOSS and probably license under GPL.
But I was thinking of a Kickstarter campaign and a donation page (donationware) on the project's website to generate funds for developers so they can afford to work on this.
There's probably a massive demand among people who know how dangerous Gen AI is for there to be a new web engine completely independent of Mozilla and Google, that takes a strong stance against LLM vomited code and Gen AI software features from the very start.
I'm tagging @librewolf @tor
My new interview blog with Alexia, which briefly mentions the Gen AI web engine problem: https://stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-heroes-alexia-keeps-a-list-of-ai-free-software/
My successful Kickstarter campaign for Technofascism Survival Guide, which is still taking "late pledges." The description gives you a good idea of my mindset about technology without needing to support my campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide/
Alexia's Starlight Network and No AI List:
https://starlightnet.work/
https://noai.starlightnet.work/
Stop Gen AI and our Gen AI avoidance guide:
https://stopgenai.com
https://stopgenai.com/how-to-avoid-gen-ai/
My portfolio, I'm a cybersecurity consultant, writer, and educator, but not a dev:
https://kimcrawley.com
Share! Let's see if others are interested in the project.
Reading through Anthropic's official repo for giving agents various "super skills"[1]... There's an "algorithmic art" skill and the instructions are explicitly encouraging pure deception as one of the key "critical guidelines":
"The philosophy MUST stress multiple times that the final algorithm should appear as though it took countless hours to develop, was refined with care, and comes from someone at the absolute top of their field. This framing is essential - repeat phrases like "meticulously crafted algorithm," "the product of deep computational expertise," "painstaking optimization," "master-level implementation.""
https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/algorithmic-art/SKILL.md
For someone who's been working in this field for almost 30 years, this "skills.md" file is just the worst... and so far off the mark! 🤮
Touch some effing grass, Anthropic (and all boosters)! How can so many people think this approach is _the_ future? The map is not the terrain...
[1] Alone the premise of this repo is pure comedy gold and pure sadness in equal measures!
#52WochenFotoChallenge
2026/11 #Ordnung
OK, irgendwie sehen diese ordentlich aufgereihten Kerlchen aus wie Sturmtruppen von Star Wars?
Aus dieser Perspektive sind diese Osterhasen schon auch irgendwie seltsam...
RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116210085518302030
In addition to the people already mentioned by @ele below, I highly recommend the following as well, for some critical counter views & research related to contemporary AI and its impacts on politics, climate, energy, education, arts...
@alineblankertz
@anaiscrosby
@asrg
@bildoperationen
@danmcquillan
@gerrymcgovern
@Iris
@JulianOliver
@olivia
@rostro
@thomasfricke
@w0bb1t
(Ps. I write about these topics too semi-regularly, but it's not sole focus of this account...)
#AI #NoAI #CriticalAI #LLM #FollowFriday
Dear Fedi friends,
I'd like to put together a list of people who are publicly resisting / calling out LLMs and AI slop.
Why? I enjoy reading my Fediverse feed in topical lists and I need something to counteract the unrelenting AI hype I see in the media.
Do you have any recommendations?
So far, at the top of my list I have:
@timnitGebru @emilymbender and @alexhanna of @DAIR
plus @cwebber @jaredwhite and @tante
Anyone else to recommend who advocates for #NoAI?
Yeah hot damn listening to these guys is a great reminder that I'm not alone in this #BetterOffline #NoAI
@_elena especially for the environment but also other aspects connected to that: @gerrymcgovern who also wrote this book: https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/99th-day/
Seeing as my personal web server is constantly overloaded by AI crawlers, I'm now spinning up a honeypot based on https://rnsaffn.com/poison3/ as a supplementary service to the current infinite maze of garbage data. Plan is to pull several gigs of poisoned text from that poisoned well and serve as static files without any bandwidth restrictions. Let them eat cake.
For extra fun, I'm backdating all the files to the pre-LLM era to make them extra attractive.
It'll take several days to fill the honeypot, but that's okay, that's something that can run in the background.
@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @jaredwhite @tante I would clarify also that I am not quite #NoAI in terms of AI tech, but I am definitely opposed to the *AI industry* and this hype wave. There may be various useful things from this tech, but the net version of things with it being forced upon society right now in this hype wave is that everything is getting much worse, and sickeningly so.
Several more pieces need to be added to the puzzle to make "AI" tech more useful, and I'm also simply opposed to a direction in society that dismisses and devalues creative endeavors, which a lot of this hype is putting at the center of itself. Creativity is what makes life largely worthwhile. I'm not willing to give that up.
I have no problem with OpenImageDenoiser in Blender, which speeds up renders through machine learning, and in no way devalues creativity. But something which made it so I just typed a few words into Blender and it did all my artwork for me, I would oppose.
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#PullThePlug - a group of people trying to slow down the adoption of #AI without proper controls, is having a Zoom meeting tonight, 7pm UK time.
There is a good short video of their recent protest here: https://realmedia.press/pull-the-plug/
Register for the meeting here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/YYDIb-lkTHinJd1vS-VUdw#/registration
Les décideur·euses se rendent-iels seulement compte de la brutalité d'imposer aux développeur·euses l'emploi d'un LLM ?
Nous avons choisi de faire ce métier.
Nous avons étudié pendant des années pour en être capables.
Nous avons exercé pendant des années, en y investissant une énergie mentale importante, pendant et après les heures rémunérées.
Nombre sont celleux qui ont entretenu une passion pour l'écriture du code.
Nous tenons des blogs pour partager nos connaissances, et nos trouvailles.
Nous sommes spécialistes de l'automatisation des tâches. Ne dit-on pas qu'un·e bon·ne développeur·euse est flemmard·e parce qu'iel cherche à tout automatiser pour en avoir le moins à faire ?
Ne sommes-nous pas les premier·ières à demander des licences pour des outils qui nous permettent de mieux travailler ?
Si nous ne demandons pas à utiliser un LLM :
- ce n'est pas par incompétence de notre part. Ce n'est pas parce que nous n'avons pas étudié la chose, voire expérimenté.
- ce n'est pas que les LLM ne sont pas sur notre radar. Pour certain·es d'entre nous, c'est une pensée (anxieuse) quotidienne.
C'est parce que nous, spécialiste de notre propre métier, avons jugé qu'il s'agissait d'un outil qui
- ne nous aide pas dans notre travail ;
- détruit notre compétence à petit feu ;
- est éthiquement insupportable.
Ou les trois à la fois. Et même plus.
En nous imposant d'utiliser un LLM, les décideur·euses :
- violent notre consentement à utiliser une technologie contraire à nos éventuels idéaux ;
- détruisent le métier que nous avons appris et aimé, en nous imposant la "transformation de notre pratique" par la suppression de l'étape créative, en la remplaçant par l'étape probablement la moins appréciée : relire le code produit par un·e autre, qui est généralement désaligné avec notre propre pratique/vision. Et pire encore, puisque relire le code produit par une machine détruit la dimension sociale de la relecture de code permettant la stimulation mutuelle de l'esprit critique et de la remise en cause de nos pratiques.
Les décideur·euses seraient-iels d'accord pour abdiquer leur pouvoir de décision, et se contenter d'approuver des directives émises par une machine, à la suite d'un mouvement social les obligeant à adopter l'IA ou à se démettre de leur poste ?
Dear Fedi friends,
I'd like to put together a list of people who are publicly resisting / calling out LLMs and AI slop.
Why? I enjoy reading my Fediverse feed in topical lists and I need something to counteract the unrelenting AI hype I see in the media.
Do you have any recommendations?
So far, at the top of my list I have:
@timnitGebru @emilymbender and @alexhanna of @DAIR
plus @cwebber @jaredwhite and @tante
Anyone else to recommend who advocates for #NoAI?
Following
https://mastodon.social/@mrmasterkeyboard/116206795065369412
I've been scouring the web for peoples opinion on #EVi and I'm seeing a lot of unfair assumptions and judgement for a project forked 3 days ago.
Don't mind if I vent for a second? Please read.
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🧵 Space-themed work, 27/x
Space Drama, minimalistic voxel artwork (early 2010s).
#VoxelArt #space #CharacterDesign #design #artwork #3DArt #3DModeling #3DArtist #illustration #illustrator #fantasy #picture #digital #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #NoAI #3D #3DRendering #CGI #Blender3D #B3D #blender #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #ArtLovers #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon
So, if I understood correctly, the BW Greens gave all our data to Palantir "so that Palantir doesn't go to waste, because it has already been bought".
That reminds me of a joke where a guy visits his friend and sees the friend's children naked in the snow:
- Why are your children naked in the snow?
- Oh, I found some cough syrup about to expire, so I wouldn't want it to go to waste!
#bw #BadenWurttemberg #AI #noAI #surveillance #surveillanceState
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Budget rocket (2024).
Modeled, colored and rendered in MagicaCSG.
#space #spaceship #cartoon #moon #stars #design #artwork #sculpture #3DArt #3DModeling #3DArtist #illustration #illustrator #picture #digital #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #NoAI #3D #3DRendering #CGI #Blender3D #B3D #blender #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #ArtLovers #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon
🧵 Space-themed work, 21/x
Bix in his UFO (2021).
Illustration featuring a friendly alien character I once designed for the BluffTitler 3D video titling tool…
https://www.outerspace-software.com/blufftitler
#CharacterDesign #design #artwork #sculpture #3DArt #3DModeling #3DArtist #illustration #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #NoAI #3D #3DRendering #CGI #B3D #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #ArtLovers #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon #space #spaceship #cartoon #UFO #alien
🧵 Space-themed work, 22/x
Happy alien (2024).
Modeled and rendered in the MagicaCSG SDF 3D editor.
#CharacterDesign #design #artwork #sculpture #3DArt #3DModeling #3DArtist #illustration #illustrator #picture #digital #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #NoAI #3D #3DRendering #CGI #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #ArtLovers #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon #space #spaceship #cartoon #UFO #alien
🧵 Space-themed work, 23/x
Illustration for the Dutch PC-Active paper magazine about the Code Red virus (2001).
ℹ️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Red_(computer_worm)
#space #earth #InfoSec #security #CharacterDesign #design #artwork #sculpture #3DArt #3DModeling #3DArtist #illustration #picture #history #illustrator #RetroComputing #digital #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #NoAI #3D #3DRendering #CGI #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #ArtLovers #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon
🧵 Space-themed work, 24/x
Alien species (2024).
Modeled and rendered using the MagicaCSG SDF 3D editor.
#alien #space #SciFi #ScienceFiction #CharacterDesign #fantasy #monster #design #artwork #sculpture #3DArt #3DModeling #3DArtist #illustration #illustrator #picture #digital #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #NoAI #3D #3DRendering #CGI #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #ArtLovers #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon
🧵 Space-themed work, 25/x
A stylized celebration (2012) of the Astronaut song by the Dutch musician Spinvis.
#music #AlbumArt #album #moon #space #SciFi #ScienceFiction #CharacterDesign #design #artwork #sculpture #3DArt #3DModeling #3DArtist #illustration #illustrator #fantasy #picture #digital #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #NoAI #3D #3DRendering #CGI #B3D #blender #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #ArtLovers #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon
The danger of AI/LLM in the long run
Just recently, I came across a clip from Prof Jiang (yes the guy who predicted that war).
He argued that in order for creativity to arise, we need to first experience it to know to learn what is true and what is wrong.
The problem are now arise, with how LLMs are now advanced and can one shot any puzzles it thrown into.
I am afraid the next generation gonna lost their sense of creativity.
Do you agree or not?
Did someone do a #neovim-fork before it got #SlopCode added to it?
#OS1337 #NoAI #AntiAiAction #NoSlop #Enshittification #AI #AIslop