love the idea! have to figure out how to do this on my blog.
https://gomakethings.com/poisoning-the-ai-well/
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Sound familiar?
That same siren song of laborsaving technology echoed throughout the twentieth century, with vacuums and dishwashers and personal computers and 5G networks and on and on and on.
Yet the average number of hours worked (both waged work and housework) hasn’t budged.
The present-day fiction of so-called AI is the same story, second verse.
The people urging AI on us won’t save labor; they will try to degrade that labor, to further alienate us from it, to demand that we work as long and hard and hopelessly as ever.
Unless we refuse.
— @aworkinglibrary, Laborsaving
https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/laborsaving
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Every time I read crazy #LLM shit like 0, it reminds me of the #LenieClark madness in #PeterWatts’ #Rifters trilogy.
My mind keeps going, Damn! He called it close to two decades ago!
A running series of Peter’s thoughts on this shit is here - 1
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#llm, #LenieClark, #peterwatts, #Rifters, #books, #reading, #ai
I know I’m probably the last to stumble on this, but given “AI” and “Copilot” and all that jazz, this is even more side-splittingly funny
Hemingway, on Hemingway
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=10416
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“One of the questions I always ask of stories is how they *work*. Who do they serve? Who benefits? Who, if anyone, is burdened or harmed by them? Who is uplifted? What modes or methods or structures do they employ?”
#MandyBrown’s latest missive at #AWorkingLibrary tackles the way we look and think about #AI.
***Must Read***
https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/smoke-screen
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#mandybrown, #AWorkingLibrary, #ai
Found this somewhere on tumblr.
Alt Text:
@SJSindu
We don’t need Al to make art.
We need Al to write emails and clean the house and deliver the groceries so humans can make more art.
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