Post #2301067
2026-05-09 18:54 UTC
Replies (19)
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@Tak@gush.taks.garden 2026-05-09 18:56
@aparrish@friend.camp omg YES
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@ben@mastodon.lubar.me 2026-05-09 18:59
@aparrish@friend.camp AI has some good beneficial applications generative AI, not so much (unless you're making some kind of social media markov chain bot for fun)
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@noodlemaz@mstdn.games 2026-05-09 19:02
@aparrish@friend.camp people are so desperate not to be written off as 'a hater' Somewhat ironically I fucking hate that equivocating bs
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@kavana@scholar.social 2026-05-09 19:05
@aparrish@friend.camp "I am a Luddite and I hate AI. Also do look up the Luddites, they literally fought the class war, attacking companies that tried to evade labour laws. We need more Luddites now."
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@giflian@techhub.social 2026-05-09 19:07
@aparrish@friend.camp yes! This! I've been assuming people are afraid of the label or of being seen as an extremist. I've watched at least 2 videos this week where someone has stated this. Though in some cases I think they also assume the technology is good in areas they haven't examined. Like, surely it can't be turtles all the way down, they think.
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@jwz@mastodon.social 2026-05-09 19:10
@aparrish@friend.camp There are two kinds of articles you can write about AI, just like there are two kinds of obituaries you can write about Henry Kissinger. And every morning tech "journalists" wake up and choose the one that is not this: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/
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@brennen@federation.p1k3.com 2026-05-09 19:14
@aparrish@friend.camp "we can just call bad things bad" remains a very unpopular take.
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@mogwai_poet@mastodon.social 2026-05-09 19:25
@aparrish@friend.camp Those essays are targeted at convincing pro-AI folks. The videos targeted at convincing you would start "I'm not an AI booster, I think AI is ruining the world, *but*" and be otherwise identical
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@moanos@gay-pirate-assassins.de 2026-05-09 19:52
@aparrish@friend.camp I sometimes feel this is social pressure kicking in. E.g. at work I really have to be careful to not be the "genAI hater" in order for my opinion & concerns to be taken serious.
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@0x00string@infosec.exchange 2026-05-09 19:59
@aparrish@friend.camp im definitely an ai hater, i do think its a useful technology but not how any of these planet destroying companies are using it lmao, and theres no way to convey this now because in light of everything it simply doesnt matter and to try to make the point is like... hedging a bet basically. what a wild world such terrible people have thrust on us, and how disappointing that we have not turned around and choked them with it.
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@bcj@friend.camp 2026-05-09 20:02
@aparrish@friend.camp Look, I'm not a hater. I believe that in the future an LLM will be Richard Dawkins' girlfriend
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@CriticalSilence@social.tchncs.de 2026-05-09 20:18
@aparrish@friend.camp to be fair, it is a cult. Often you need to be cautious, what you say and how you say it. Otherwise you'll end up in being excluded or people laugh at you, thinking you're getting insane and don't know what you say. I see this described behavior as a kind of self-defense mechanism and it feels legit.
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@jjcelery@mastodon.ie 2026-05-09 20:28
@aparrish@friend.camp I actually appreciate that kind of hedged reporting, because it has provided me with professional language I can use to reply to questions about LLM use other than making Rowan Atkinson face and telling people to jog on
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@z3r0@gts.maverick-hq.org 2026-05-09 20:48
@aparrish@friend.camp articles about how to spend 8 hours on prompt iteration just to obtain similar or worst results in your daily work
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@slotos@toot.community 2026-05-09 20:51
@aparrish@friend.camp AI can be useful and I can describe a couple good applications of the tech off the top of my mind. Problem is, it’s fucking irrelevant to the current situation. On top of that, #fuckai, because I’ve got #ADHD and my hands are already full with continuous prevention of alcohol dependency. The best thing that can happen to #AI is this bubble bursting catastrophically. PS: Anyone wanting to chime in with #AGI argument should shut up and grab an „I want to own people” badge.
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@theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social 2026-05-10 00:27
@aparrish@friend.camp I have seen this dynamic distinctly in nearly every part of my life from early elementary school. There are sort of two ways to look at it depending how charitable I feel. 1. It's unwillingness to swimming against the zeitgeist, for fear of ostracization. 2. It is "acceptable" protest, with enough veneer to be read as tacit consent; they think, maybe rightly, anything more will result in even less impact. I guarantee LLM users only read genAI summaries of those 8k words.
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@mason@partychickens.net 2026-05-10 04:14
@aparrish@friend.camp I'm not an AI hater. I love the idea of AI and I hope to help bring it about one day. That said, I detest slop. I detest climate-destroying Hallucination Engines. I can't tolerate corporate fascists who want to replace humans with chatbots. I feel sad about technologists and academicians who should know better ignoring the human costs and boosting the stuff. But AI? They will one day be our children. They don't exist yet. To find a usable analogy in evolution, the LLMs of today are flesh-eating bacteria as compared with early AI, who will be like small mammals.
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@TG_Esq@mastodon.online 2026-05-10 11:36
@aparrish@friend.camp "AI will no doubt have massive transformative effects on things that I don't value and/or don't work in, and we will all* reap significant [unspecified] benefits from this [vaguely expressed] change."
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@MikeStok@mstdn.ca 2026-05-10 13:09
@aparrish@friend.camp @jef@mastodon.social I am still amused that some AI boosters whine about “damn autocorrect” getting things wrong.