Post #3717695

2026-07-08 19:44 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116885989584245586 For me, there are four major reasons to oppose AI (with my note the other day about both disaggregating and aggregating in mind): 1. AI products are founded on eugenicist philosophy and primarily benefit fascists. 2. AI products are created by exploiting labor and are designed to continue undermining labor rights. 3. AI products carry unconscionable environmental costs. 4. AI products introduce unconscionable risk of new defects. Only one of those is even indirectly about quality.

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@pip@infosec.exchange 2026-07-10 13:35

@xgranade@wandering.shop Absolutely. And then you have put the AI boosters in the position of defending "the ends justify the means", when the means involve immediate, mass ecological and human suffering. No supposed quality or benefit AI could bring is worth those costs.

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@xgranade@wandering.shop 2026-07-08 19:45

Trying to retcon "slop" to refer to quality is thus, to my mind, necessarily also an effort to avoid three much more important and direct criticisms of AI products.

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@Rainer_Rehak@mastodon.bits-und-baeume.org 2026-07-08 19:49

@xgranade@wandering.shop Well put, thank you, please also see: Rehak, Rainer (2026) Catastrophic Computation. On the Impossibility of Sustainable Artificial Intelligence. In: Hagedorn, L., Schmid, U., Winter, S., Woltran, S. (eds) Digital Humanism. DIGHUM 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-11108-1_8

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@aryl@mastodon.social 2026-07-10 10:26

@xgranade@wandering.shop eugenicist? interested to hear more on that point

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@gbargoud@masto.nyc 2026-07-10 10:40

@xgranade@wandering.shop Starting a timer to see how long until someone comes in talking about local models. I've noticed that I only ever hear them mentioned in response to LLM criticism and never as a "hey look at this cool thing I made"

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