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Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

Honestly several things are depressing about ai but the two that stand out are the eagerness of people to outsource thought because cognitive effort is uncomfortable, and the casualness with which people use the shiny, easy thing knowing it's bad for climate change

“i will *never* just let people enjoy things” that’s right

I have been meaning to write about this for a month or so now but it breaks my heart. AI has infected every hobby. Everything is noise. It's hurting existing communities and trudging through the slop is exhausting.

Very nice new paper by @benzevgreen.bsky.social @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social @tisjune.bsky.social on the actual appropriate response to AI hype (resistance, not "AI literacy") ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...

we’ve got one factory that makes real things and one factory that makes fake things but they both make real carbon dioxide

imo this amounts to deliberate sabotage of an important public resource

Reading about this today has totally pissed me off. It turns out I don't hate AI enough.

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

I did a panel the other day where we talked about the cost of compute as being a massively limiting factor, but for lots of AI purchasers that cost is still being masked by VC/investor money so the vulnerabilities are high but hidden wch leads to scepticism

“AI” boosters calling themselves “AI critics” or claiming to be critical of the technology seems to be such a common thing No doubt they believe it themselves So many people worried about the tech accept these “AI”promotions unexamined and assume anything more critical is unfounded extremism

"It's already here, what do you mean you think you can refuse?" is just another variation of the agency-stealing inevitability narrative. The future is not yet written, and we can shape it, starting with rejecting inevitability and claiming our agency. /fin

ultimately if your reaction to someone saying "I think this is bad, I am ethically unhappy about it, I don't want to touch it" is to go "well it's useful so. it's everywhere. nothing to be done" I just kind of think you're an asshole

just checking

Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners

The actual math in this paper is over the heads of non-mathematicians but the core argument is pretty easy to follow: AI theorem-prover formalizations can't actually be trusted to faithfully be the same argument as the natural-language paper they come attached to arxiv.org/abs/2610.081...

i know if they are and they're not.

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

relatedly: “oh, if i didn’t use ai my project wouldn’t have any illustrations” or “it’s not like i was going to commission an artist anyway.” well then go without. or do what you would have done 5 years ago and copy some clip art from google images

The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. https://bit.ly/4hMhPzG

OpenAI didn’t simply stumble upon all these results down the side of the sofa whilst cleaning. They chose to systematically invest huge sums of money to produce them. And to keep on going. And going. And going. They systematically took our motivational questions, perhaps with the… #MathSky #LLM

“I have many concerns about the accuracy of this new breed of artificial intelligence […] and quite a few more fully realised horrors about the breed of lipless psychopaths who own the infrastructure […]” haha preach. love to read a good hater’s manifesto

I don't think I've made this point on this platform before it's no coincidence IMO that so much fash faux nostalgia AI slop is indistinguishable from the most gonzo dystopian "what the whole hep world would be doing Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war, this is the sixth Reich" parodies, IE:

blockchain fixes this [holds finger to earpiece] er, i mean agentic ai fixes this

The only source of there being any kind of productivity boost in software is from the people who have had their brains fried by the "discovery" you can brute force a bunch of stolen code into compiling. Anyone still in this industry that hasn't been fried sees these people doing overtime for less.

It's not even funny what kind of loss I will absorb if I have to create an account to do business with you. I will walk away from a winning lottery ticket, I promise you.

hot take: software people are going to regret not unionizing when we could

Yet more evidence for the towering heap of proof that synthetic users are bullshit. As with all AI products, they do not improve "productivity" for a task but create an excuse not to do the task. In this case, the task is research. AI participants do not help you do research, but to AVOID research.

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...