wokeai (⛔️pronounce "wōk•ĀĪ)

wokeai means turning AI back on the systems watching us 🧵 It isn’t about being “politically correct” or playing “identity politics.” Yes, #diversity, #equity, and #inclusion make the world better. But that’s not what the name means. #woke #wokeai @wokeainow.app (1/11)

It can help us block tracking on our home network. It runs locally, so our questions don’t become someone else’s data. And because it’s ours, nobody can enshittify it. Know-how that used to take money or a tech-savvy friend is now within reach of anyone with a computer. #DigitalSovereignty (10/11)

wokeai means turning AI back on the systems watching us 🧵 It isn’t about being “politically correct” or playing “identity politics.” Yes, #diversity, #equity, and #inclusion make the world better. But that’s not what the name means. #woke #wokeai @wokeainow.app (1/11)

4. Digital Redlining C.Gilliard popularized this term for how tech sorts people along old lines of class & race. Here, privacy becomes a luxury good. If you can afford hardware that respects it, great. If you can’t, you trade constant surveillance for tech you can afford. #DigitalRedlining (8/11)

wokeai means turning AI back on the systems watching us 🧵 It isn’t about being “politically correct” or playing “identity politics.” Yes, #diversity, #equity, and #inclusion make the world better. But that’s not what the name means. #woke #wokeai @wokeainow.app (1/11)

2. Enshittification Cory Doctorow’s word for how platforms predictably go bad. The bait: good hardware at a low price builds a huge user base. The switch: once you’ve got no real choice, they make it worse on purpose to squeeze out more data and ad money for shareholders. #Enshittification (6/11)

wokeai means turning AI back on the systems watching us 🧵 It isn’t about being “politically correct” or playing “identity politics.” Yes, #diversity, #equity, and #inclusion make the world better. But that’s not what the name means. #woke #wokeai @wokeainow.app (1/11)

On its own, a cheap TV spying on us isn’t systemic oppression. But it runs on the same logic as the bigger systems, and we can’t push back on what we don’t understand. Four ideas explain how it works. In every one, the company’s interests run against ours. #TechJustice (4/11)

wokeai means turning AI back on the systems watching us 🧵 It isn’t about being “politically correct” or playing “identity politics.” Yes, #diversity, #equity, and #inclusion make the world better. But that’s not what the name means. #woke #wokeai @wokeainow.app (1/11)

@wokeainow.app is regular people running AI on their own machines to understand, push back against, and take apart the systems that exploit us. The tools corporations use on us, we can use on them. One everyday example: the smart TV at home. #LocalAI (2/11)