The Flaky Wanderer

I love bluesky because of how well people here understand jokes

Those who can completely “opt out” of or be least affected by societal change of this scale are those w/ privilege. This isn’t a condemnation, but it’s to say many militant anti-AI leaders are fostering an environment that will result in *less* privileged people being more negatively impacted by AI.

Really establishing "use AI and lie about it" as the meta right now

I’m watching a thread of people who are demanding 1) an email service alternative to Proton, 2) that doesn’t use AI, and promises to never use AI, 3) is privacy-focused (that means no ads), and finally, is 4) completely free

just saw some user repost anti-ai post then the most vibecoded project right after.

words can’t express how much i hate people who seem to downplay mental struggles their fellow humans go through and seem to imply it’s LLMs that cause them. i’m starting to have no patience for it

hopefully this is a good home

Americans: "There is only one language. It's English. If someone has something important to say they can translate it" (note: it's not the right that have this opinion) Also Americans: "Oh shit twitter has autotranslate on posts now that's so innovative that's so amazing" Also Americans: "Fuck AI"

It's an against-the-grain reading. That is, I don't think people ever say explicitly "only profit is real." But if we ask why they aren't convinced by statistics about (50%) adoption, I don't have a lot of other compelling answers.

even our socialists worship capital

Documentary full of ragebait called You Can REEEE Everything

I hate the idea that the inherently queer stance is anti-AI that some people seem to think is the default. I've had people question if I'm even a woman, and call me a tech bro, and it's like they're in active psychosis lmao. If you can't respect me as a woman you're a bigot, AI or not.

did you know you can spend $100 and get a chunk of sapphire that could be used as a melee weapon? https://store.gemsofscience.com/products/optical-sapphire-cores-and-wafers

I have seen some absolutely wicked racism in "progressive" spaces lately from people who literally say "learn English or shut the fuck up" because of how much they hate machine translation

I swear you can play bingo with these people: pedojacketing, not real queers, all men with fetishes for AI slaves, spicy auto complete, slop machine, csam machine, I swear 80% of the responses could be nested down into less than 8 shibboleths.

it’s funny how anti-AI people will talk about how “AI” is a really broad umbrella term and that we need to keep in mind that there are lots of types of “AI”, but then they are always the first ones to jump to wild conclusions about what kind of AI I’m referring to when I say “AI” lol

ppl screaming in my replies that AI does nothing while I can only move my fingers to type this post because of how good I was at using AI tbh

sorry, I’m gonna be salty for life that we figured out “Don’t Feed The Trolls” in the 00s, then thousands of would-be savvy people and fresh-out-of-poli-sci twits thought amplifying Matt Fucking Yglesias for another decade plus. All of it, embarrassing and avoidable.

it's also worth considering that people who are old are more likely to be willing to be like "yeah this AI stuff will probably change how things work, and that's fine" because they're no longer invested in the idea that their specific way of doing things is eternal

i don't think it's that crazy it's a lot harder to use public money to build a complicated interconnected grid of rail infrastructure than it is to use private money to build a bunch of big warehouses. like i don't think it's great only one of those is possible but what i do not think it is is crazy

i can't believe the existence of ai got so many ostensibly left-wing people to defend the concept of intellectual property of all things 🤢

i know comparing everyone to christian fundamentalists is a bit passé, but some people truly do believe in binary "you are good or evil" and any drop of "evil" is total and contaminates your soul, even retroactively like "tarnish everything he ever accomplished".. dude phoned it in on a sticker

underrated reason to block liberally is that getting harassed/exposed to insane persecutory opinions puts you at risk of becoming a reactionary/extremist purely so ur limbic system feels safe

My current stance is that AI can write "page turner fanfiction" levels at best but also the gatekeepers of taste have been revealed to have no clothes.

I'm very pro disclosure - but it's a BIZARRE choice on the part of the poster (who IIRC is also trans) to use nearly the exact wording of an anti-trans argument ("If trans people were their real genders why wouldn't they be proud to disclose") Where the answer is the same: harassment.

New blog post up: if you've been paying close attention to LLM prices, you may have noticed that they have dropped *significantly* over the past few months, which is not what I expected. minimaxir.com/2026/10/chea...

the more we see people who actually know ball, artistically, working with these tools, the better the results we're going to get; one reason they took off early with code is because it was easier to objectively verify correctness of basically boilerplate shit + coders more willing to jam w/ robots

I feel like a lot of people have been operating under the assumption that convincing AI generated images need to be made in a datacenter which is really bad because you can create them on almost any consumer gaming PC now

being anti AI is a luxury belief only available to first world people, especially Americans imagine how important machine translation is for people whose first languages aren't that common

This is confounded by the fact that people send you death threats for using AI

I see autistic masking discourse going around again. Neurotypical social norms *are* understandable. Acting neurotypical is doable if high effort (my mom is like this). You can get a long way by being a kind of weird that doesn't rub people the wrong way, which is much easier. But it hinges on this:

Fight how? Refusing to use AI isn't fighting, it's laying down and accepting defeat. It's literally the local models that you consider an afterthought that are literally eating into the investor theses now. Open weight IS the only way you "fight back".

I've had multiple people now tell me they won't play my games unless I stop using AI and then get extremely angry at me when I encourage them to not play my games.

One thing that pisses off a certain type of person a lot is telling them some permutation of, "It's okay if this isn't for you." We have this "customer is always right" culture where people expect to be catered to always by everyone.

A 78-year-old beloved cartoonist used AI to make a *sticker* and people online are crashing out over it. A sticker. He used a computer to make a sticker... might as well send him to the gulag.

This sort of attitude leads to marginalized technologists being singled out for massive abuse for not putting ourselves at a deliberate disadvantage in a field that already discriminates against us

I feel this way when people bemoan not being able to write the code anymore.

r/opensource banning non-english speakers because "we can't tell the difference between ai slop and ai translation" is... uh... yeah. a choice.

Had someone on Twitter tell me if ConcernedApe could make Stardew Valley alone, I can make the games I want without AI. He spent ~70 hours a week for over four years making the game while partially being financially kept afloat by his partner. This is NOT an ideal to uphold.