I want to apologize for changing the description without telling people first. After reading arguments about how AI has been so overhyped, I'm not that frightened by it. It's awful that it hallucinates, and that it just spews garbage onto YouTube and Facebook, but it won't completely upend society. I'll have articles abound on AI hype, because they're quite funny, and gives me a sense of ease knowing that, despite blatant lies being easy to tell, it's way harder to fake actual evidence.
I also want to factor in people who think that there's nothing anyone can do. I've come to realize that there might not be a way to attack OpenAI, MidJourney, or Stable Diffusion. These people, which I will call Doomers from an AIHWOS article, are perfectly welcome here. You can certainly come along and read the AI Hype Wall Of Shame, or the diminishing returns of Deep Learning. Maybe one can even become a Mod!
Boosters, or people who heavily use AI and see it as a source of good, ARE NOT ALLOWED HERE! I've seen Boosters dox, threaten, and harass artists over on Reddit and Twitter, and they constantly champion artists losing their jobs. They go against the very purpose of this community. If I hear a comment on here saying that AI is "making things good" or cheering on putting anyone out of a job, and the commenter does not retract their statement, said commenter will be permanently banned. FA&FO.
This was a joke, but a handful of people expressed genuine interest in reading a book that bashes oligarchs and AI, just for the sake of it.
I'm heavily anti-AI. So much so, I'm pretty sure this is why my Instagram and Threads account got zapped out of existence. Meta couldn't handle the heat every single time they posted some slop-positive buzz on their official accounts, I don't know ...
But, I run my entire website behind Anubis, and I dropped Windows completely over their introduction of spyware into their malware OS. I'm not unfamiliar with AI, I've used it. I've given it a whirl. It's a bunch of garbage built on the backs of anyone whose ever done even an ounce of creative or skilled, written work. Be it code, a personal blog, or even fiction.
And it's getting worse. Every day I see more and more people embracing generative slop, either for fun, or for a social media avatar, or "because anti-AI people are annoying." It's like a virus, a pandemic. A pandemic that's evaporating fresh water, and melting the icecaps.
The fascist elites wanted a way to extract our labor, and pilfer our pockets, and with these so-called "tools" every facet of what we call "the Arts" are being destroyed, along with the world we live in.
Search Google images, scroll through Reddit, and just look at what your parents are consuming on Facebook. This is an emergency, and patient zero has a name: Sam Altman.
Fuck AI
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.