“In Ireland, data centers consume more than 20 percent of the country’s electricity. In Chile, precious aquifers are in danger of depletion. In South Africa, where blackouts have long been routine, data centers are further taxing the national grid.”
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
III 💖✨
#sleeptoken #iiisleeptoken #sleeptokenfanart #sleeptokeniii #digitalart #procreate #art #artsy #drawing #noai #againstai
#sleeptoken #iiisleeptoken #sleeptokenfanart #sleeptokeniii #digitalart #procreate #art #artsy #drawing #noai #againstai
October 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
SO GOOD: "this only shows that researchers are in a vulnerable position and that the genAI industry can and does exploit it. GenAI is not empowering researchers but cementing their precarious roles." #resistAI #againstAI
Andrea Reyes Elizondo @altibel.bsky.social and I have responded to a blog, recently published on @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social, which argued that using AI responsibly in research means being transparent about it. We object that supposed transparency obscures more fundamental ethical questions.
Why AI transparency is not enough
Recently, a taxonomy to disclose the use of generative AI (genAI) in research outputs was presented as an approach that creates transparency and thereby supports responsible genAI use. In this post we...
www.leidenmadtrics.nl
October 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
SO GOOD: "this only shows that researchers are in a vulnerable position and that the genAI industry can and does exploit it. GenAI is not empowering researchers but cementing their precarious roles." #resistAI #againstAI
Just heard the Provost say, "The first thing our students in computer science will do is use AI to code. Vibe-coding is just a thing now." Any thoughts, team? #againstAI
October 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Just heard the Provost say, "The first thing our students in computer science will do is use AI to code. Vibe-coding is just a thing now." Any thoughts, team? #againstAI
"... requiring roughly the same amount of electricity needed to power eight million to 10 million homes in Canada ... use up to a billion gallons of water per year to keep cool because they generate so much heat."
Don't allow this, @mark-carney.bsky.social.
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
#againstAI
Don't allow this, @mark-carney.bsky.social.
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
#againstAI
ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News
OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...
www.cbc.ca
October 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"... requiring roughly the same amount of electricity needed to power eight million to 10 million homes in Canada ... use up to a billion gallons of water per year to keep cool because they generate so much heat."
Don't allow this, @mark-carney.bsky.social.
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
#againstAI
Don't allow this, @mark-carney.bsky.social.
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
#againstAI
Anyway, my family tired of my ranting and made me a t-shirt, that I'm teaching in today #againstAI #noAI
October 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Anyway, my family tired of my ranting and made me a t-shirt, that I'm teaching in today #againstAI #noAI
Creativity RUNS our society.
Fight back and do the most revolutionary thing you could in this growing world of AI, be IMAGINATIVE. ✨BE YOU ✨
NEVER stop Creating my fellow humans 🌿
#bloomscrolling #creativity #againstAI
#mentalhealthawarness #artist #nature #getoutside
Fight back and do the most revolutionary thing you could in this growing world of AI, be IMAGINATIVE. ✨BE YOU ✨
NEVER stop Creating my fellow humans 🌿
#bloomscrolling #creativity #againstAI
#mentalhealthawarness #artist #nature #getoutside
September 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Creativity RUNS our society.
Fight back and do the most revolutionary thing you could in this growing world of AI, be IMAGINATIVE. ✨BE YOU ✨
NEVER stop Creating my fellow humans 🌿
#bloomscrolling #creativity #againstAI
#mentalhealthawarness #artist #nature #getoutside
Fight back and do the most revolutionary thing you could in this growing world of AI, be IMAGINATIVE. ✨BE YOU ✨
NEVER stop Creating my fellow humans 🌿
#bloomscrolling #creativity #againstAI
#mentalhealthawarness #artist #nature #getoutside
Wall-E, but it's happening to brains rather than bodies. #againstAI
I was genuinely not prepared for the level of learned helplessness that would come with wider adoption of "GenAI"
September 5, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Wall-E, but it's happening to brains rather than bodies. #againstAI
Sometimes I really hate it here. Bluesky's better than Twitter at this point, and useful for keeping up with some things and some people, but uurrrggghhhhh. #againstAI #bluesky
October 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Sometimes I really hate it here. Bluesky's better than Twitter at this point, and useful for keeping up with some things and some people, but uurrrggghhhhh. #againstAI #bluesky
Update: they've stopped coming again.
The maximum day July 7-Aug 21 was 889 visitors (except Aug 20: 3378); the low day Aug 22-Sept 30 was 687, and it never fell below 3000 between Sept 2-27. Since Oct 1, the max day has been 687.
All such stats are faked, because Google, but. #againstAI
The maximum day July 7-Aug 21 was 889 visitors (except Aug 20: 3378); the low day Aug 22-Sept 30 was 687, and it never fell below 3000 between Sept 2-27. Since Oct 1, the max day has been 687.
All such stats are faked, because Google, but. #againstAI
Ain't nothing at boughtbooks.blogspot.com that should attract those sites. It dates back to around August 20, since which date Blogger claims I've rarely seen under 3000 visits per day. I'm assuming that it's AI scraping, but who knows. #againstAI #noAI
book addiction
Book reviews (commentaries? notes?), with distracted remarks on Other Topics of Interest.
boughtbooks.blogspot.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Update: they've stopped coming again.
The maximum day July 7-Aug 21 was 889 visitors (except Aug 20: 3378); the low day Aug 22-Sept 30 was 687, and it never fell below 3000 between Sept 2-27. Since Oct 1, the max day has been 687.
All such stats are faked, because Google, but. #againstAI
The maximum day July 7-Aug 21 was 889 visitors (except Aug 20: 3378); the low day Aug 22-Sept 30 was 687, and it never fell below 3000 between Sept 2-27. Since Oct 1, the max day has been 687.
All such stats are faked, because Google, but. #againstAI
Support artists directly. If you stream, buy an LP or CD, T-shirt, book/graphic novel, subscribe. Don't let the artists you enjoy toil without just compensation while streaming companies and AI companies disproportionately profit off of their creativity! #AgainstAI #StreamingDoesntPay #Art #Music
April 12, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Support artists directly. If you stream, buy an LP or CD, T-shirt, book/graphic novel, subscribe. Don't let the artists you enjoy toil without just compensation while streaming companies and AI companies disproportionately profit off of their creativity! #AgainstAI #StreamingDoesntPay #Art #Music
Commission for That1Josie #artist #artistssupportingartists #smallartist #againstai #art #fanart #commission #vtuber #artists #vgen
June 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Commission for That1Josie #artist #artistssupportingartists #smallartist #againstai #art #fanart #commission #vtuber #artists #vgen
Ain't nothing at boughtbooks.blogspot.com that should attract those sites. It dates back to around August 20, since which date Blogger claims I've rarely seen under 3000 visits per day. I'm assuming that it's AI scraping, but who knows. #againstAI #noAI
book addiction
Book reviews (commentaries? notes?), with distracted remarks on Other Topics of Interest.
boughtbooks.blogspot.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Ain't nothing at boughtbooks.blogspot.com that should attract those sites. It dates back to around August 20, since which date Blogger claims I've rarely seen under 3000 visits per day. I'm assuming that it's AI scraping, but who knows. #againstAI #noAI
I love this whole saga SO MUCH: some dude, pretending to be a homegrown New Zealand AI?!? #againstAI
Happened before LLMs, as @davidfarrier.bsky.social revealed
thespinoff.co.nz/the-best-of/...
thespinoff.co.nz/society/13-0...
thespinoff.co.nz/the-best-of/...
thespinoff.co.nz/society/13-0...
The mystery of Zach, New Zealand’s all-too-miraculous medical AI
An artificial intelligence bot called Zach is creating a stir in the medical community. But AI experts are not convinced. David Farrier goes in search of Zach.
thespinoff.co.nz
April 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I love this whole saga SO MUCH: some dude, pretending to be a homegrown New Zealand AI?!? #againstAI
Sharing and spreading the word is much appreciated! It's this weekend and there are still free slots!
#art #artsky #artistonblsky #artshare #artstream #againstAI #NoAI
#art #artsky #artistonblsky #artshare #artstream #againstAI #NoAI
Update on the event scheduled for Friday and Saturday: one creative is scheduled to stream. If you’ve been thinking about streaming, please DM me today or tonight!
showcase.brioco.live
#creativesShowcase #peerTube #mastoArt #fediArt #humanArt #writing #noAI #wip #pixelArt #pottery #ceramics
showcase.brioco.live
#creativesShowcase #peerTube #mastoArt #fediArt #humanArt #writing #noAI #wip #pixelArt #pottery #ceramics
showcase.brioco
September 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Sharing and spreading the word is much appreciated! It's this weekend and there are still free slots!
#art #artsky #artistonblsky #artshare #artstream #againstAI #NoAI
#art #artsky #artistonblsky #artshare #artstream #againstAI #NoAI
Key detail: "We deliberately chose excerpts that, if pasted into a traditional Google search, returned the original source within the first three results." #againstAI #noAI
A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly (Columbia Journalism Review)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
March 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Key detail: "We deliberately chose excerpts that, if pasted into a traditional Google search, returned the original source within the first three results." #againstAI #noAI
Presented without comm... Who am I kidding, STOP USING FAKE AI WHEN THE HUMAN BRAIN IS RIGHT THERE WAITING FOR YOU TO NOTICE IT. #againstAI (Not shouting at the OP, I promise.)
If you leverage AI in literature review, CHECK THOSE REFERENCES. I just finished reading through a proposal on a topic that I knew well, and thus was surprised to see several papers referenced that I hadn't known of. Then when I looked them up online, I found they didn't exist. 7 fake references.
February 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Presented without comm... Who am I kidding, STOP USING FAKE AI WHEN THE HUMAN BRAIN IS RIGHT THERE WAITING FOR YOU TO NOTICE IT. #againstAI (Not shouting at the OP, I promise.)
A useful thread, that also flags the various stages at which resistance is essential, everywhere. #noAI #againstAI (Yes, not all AI, whatever.)
OpenAI's rapid rush into education has been achieved by habituating users through training programs, institutional lock-ins, strategic marketing partnerships, and third party integrations that together are helping it become infrastructural to teaching and learning. It's going to be hard to get out.
September 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
A useful thread, that also flags the various stages at which resistance is essential, everywhere. #noAI #againstAI (Yes, not all AI, whatever.)
Last para: “'Human activities become more valuable when you have infinite AI labor,' he said, recognizing that this nuance wasn’t communicated through the startup’s guerrilla ad campaign. 'We don’t hate humans as much as it may seem that we do. We actually love humans.'" #againstAI
April 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Last para: “'Human activities become more valuable when you have infinite AI labor,' he said, recognizing that this nuance wasn’t communicated through the startup’s guerrilla ad campaign. 'We don’t hate humans as much as it may seem that we do. We actually love humans.'" #againstAI
In sum, I hate everything about this. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. (The book clubbers mentioned in #8 above were *aghast*, but they got it. So did the author, who thought it was fun to be attacked.) #noAI #againstAI 9/9
a man in a tie says " i gotta get out of here "
Alt: From the movie OFFICE SPACE, Ron Livingston's character Peter says "I gotta get out of here. I think I'm going to lose it"
media.tenor.com
March 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
In sum, I hate everything about this. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. (The book clubbers mentioned in #8 above were *aghast*, but they got it. So did the author, who thought it was fun to be attacked.) #noAI #againstAI 9/9
Terrific thread for everyone worried about AI/LLMs #againstAI
LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.
There are a lot of critiques of LLMs that I agree with but "they suck and aren't useful" doesn't really hold water.
I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful.
Thoughts?
I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful.
Thoughts?
April 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Terrific thread for everyone worried about AI/LLMs #againstAI
Oh hell, yes: "I ask my fellow educators to consider some measures for reducing our complicity in efforts to steal our students identities, attention, and right to education, even indenture them to train algorithms" #againstAI
“The logical conclusion of a technofeudal oligarchy combining forces with an authoritarian political movement is compulsory enrollment in the security state’s platform architecture of surveillance, indoctrination, and behavioral modification.”
Against Technofeudal Education
Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI
theamericanvandal.substack.com
August 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Oh hell, yes: "I ask my fellow educators to consider some measures for reducing our complicity in efforts to steal our students identities, attention, and right to education, even indenture them to train algorithms" #againstAI
Let's be clear: LLM-style AI is trash, irredeemable trash, the only possible use of which is for experts to produce trash they can then sift expertly and hence **maybe** speed up their expert actions. No one else should touch it, and I'd rather no one touched it. #noAI #againstAI 2/
May 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Let's be clear: LLM-style AI is trash, irredeemable trash, the only possible use of which is for experts to produce trash they can then sift expertly and hence **maybe** speed up their expert actions. No one else should touch it, and I'd rather no one touched it. #noAI #againstAI 2/
Disappointed to see that the Merriam Webster uses terrible (inaccurate and ugly) AI images for some of its online games @merriam-webster.com. What a pity, I love this dictionary and the games are so fun. Please do better, this damages your credibility and learners.
#nogenai #aislop #againstai
#nogenai #aislop #againstai
July 2, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Disappointed to see that the Merriam Webster uses terrible (inaccurate and ugly) AI images for some of its online games @merriam-webster.com. What a pity, I love this dictionary and the games are so fun. Please do better, this damages your credibility and learners.
#nogenai #aislop #againstai
#nogenai #aislop #againstai
I did the Canadian government's AI survey this week: good times. My fave question (by which I mean the one that pushed me closest to the brink) was maybe "What are the key barriers to AI adoption, and how can government and industry work together to accelerate responsible uptake?" #againstAI
a cartoon character with an angry look on his face and the words freetopsticker below him
Alt: Anger, the cartoon character from the movie Inside Out, looking angry and then having flame shoot out from the top of his head while he screams in rage
media.tenor.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I did the Canadian government's AI survey this week: good times. My fave question (by which I mean the one that pushed me closest to the brink) was maybe "What are the key barriers to AI adoption, and how can government and industry work together to accelerate responsible uptake?" #againstAI