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Greg Pak
@gregpak.net

All of the LLMs stole from me. Most of the big "A.i." billionaires are horrifying right wingers. Consumer-facing generative "A.i." "writing" and "art" tools deskill people, cheat kids out of real education, spread falsehoods and disinfo, and violate privacy. So no, I ain't using that shit.

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Lord Head
@lord-head.bsky.social

I do not use generative AI for my programming work because I write poetry that does stuff. Using it insults the blessings I was born with and I want to present our company's clients with work done in good faith. Also techbro libertarianism is solely about the freedom of white men to enslave others.

CheeseDev
@thecheesespot.xyz

i remember seeing something about my website in some slop ai output i saw online. great.. plus my youtube stuff is definitely in ai now

Greg Pak
@gregpak.net

I've always said there are legit uses for machine learning in science. That's great! Go for it! But I will likely never be interested in the consumer-facing generative and LLM bullshit that's linked with fraud, cheating, theft, right-wing ideology, deskilling, and even murder & suicide.

Greg Pak
@gregpak.net

Also: the "A.i." billionaires are exploiters and liars and extractionists. Most of them support right wing fascists. They literally cannot be trusted about anything. So I'm not interested in participating in anything that furthers their interests or gives them more money.

Greg Pak
@gregpak.net

I don't subscribe to any Substacks because that company has platformed and promoted Nazis. I switched away from Shopify because they platform horrible people. I deleted X because that fucker is one of the worst people on the planet. Why the hell would I ever use an OpenAI product?

Anthony “Mayor Tony”
@frattaro.li

No objection to AI use for advanced pattern recognition, but genAI for text & images is a dead end, and unfortunately that’s what the entire industry is hinged on. I think a lot of the animosity people have towards AI is based on the intentional, dangerous misuse being encouraged by profiteers.

Anthony “Mayor Tony”
@frattaro.li

There’s a place for the technologies these companies have built, but not at the scale they’re hoping for, and not with the sycophantic chatbot interfaces they’ve used to humanize it.

ahdok
@socksandpuppets.com

It should also be noted that the ML technologies that are "useful to science" existed at least as far back as the 1990s. Those models are focused, dedicated tools for investigating specific problems. I remember running protein folding programs to "help science" as a '90s kid in my bedroom.

ahdok
@socksandpuppets.com

LLMs are at BEST generalized tools that can perform a poor imitation of these "useful science tools". The majority of their training data doesn't pertain to your problem, and actively makes the tool worse at investigating your problem, you're always better off making a dedicated tool.

ahdok
@socksandpuppets.com

The "it's good for science" argument is basically stolen valor. It's marketing. They conflate their crappy plagarism engines with genuine useful scientific inquiry, because it convinces uninformed people that what they're doing is important and useful and deserving of support.

Brendan Davey
@brendandavey.bsky.social

I’ve unsubscribed from so many things this year that I thought I would need forever, and… I don’t know, I’ve been fine?

Brendan Davey@brendandavey.bsky.social

It's long overdue, but goodbye to Spotify as well, which, I believe, I have given >$1,700 since January 2012.

Nessa Gray
@nessagray.bsky.social

Also, as a former professional creative who’s now in legal, it’s ass! It’s all ass! It looks like shit, it sounds like shit, it can’t reason, it can’t build an arc, and it makes anything you feed through it reductive and weak. Why use the artificial when I have the real thing?