Search results for tag #noai
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VAPES ARE A DEEP STATE PSYOP DESIGNED
TO CONDITION US TO ENJOY SUCKING
ROBOT DICKS.
ONCE AI TAKES AWAY ALL OUR JOBS AND
THE ONLY THING LEFT FOR HUMANITY IS TO
BE SEX SLAVES FOR ROBOTS!
REAL EYES REALIZE CLANKER LIES!!!
DON’T FALL FORT!!!
WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!
Andrea.
#portrait #portraitphotography #fotografiaderetrato #retratos #retrato #people #classicportrait #brancoepreto #photography #NoAI #galicia #coruña #blackandwhite #monochrome #BnW #bw #blancoynegro #blackandwhitephotography #noiretblanc #biancoenero
#woman #mujer #women
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Mujer rubia con body negro.
Cassandra.
#photography #brancoepreto #photography #NoAI #galicia #coruña #blackandwhite #monochrome #BnW #bw #blancoynegro #blackandwhitephotography #noiretblanc #biancoenero
#woman #mujer #women
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Mujer rubia con tatuajes con una chaqueta de traje.
This is the fourth in a series of paintings that illuminate the transformative beauty of the natural world. To visually express how total immersion into wild spaces can create a profound sense of peace; restore wonder; and generate calm in an increasingly chaotic world.
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NOW AVAILABLE in my Redbubble shop:
https://www.redbubble.com/people/gretchenkdeahl/shop
(Fulfills and ships orders worldwide. :-)
(100% human-made) human imagined, drawn and painted, no AI whatsoever.
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#art #artist #illustration #illustrator #spiritual #drawing #paintings #noAI #childrensbooks #fineart #artwork #landscape #nature #childrensart #artforchildren #interiordecor #flowers #mastoart #art #artistsonmastodon #artlover #artlovers #decor #popart #artnet #artlover #artlovers #handmade #supportthearts #creature #friend #spring #love #gardensofpixelfed #garden #birds #dove #de_artists #mastoart #de_artist #artist_de #mastoart #mastoartist #de_artists
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Against a background of swirling pinks and purples, silhouettes of abundant flowering plant life blooms. In the foreground, perched on a peaceful, abstract face, a pale taupe mourning dove rests. (partial image)
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Against a background of swirling pinks and purples, silhouettes of abundant flowering plant life blooms. In the foreground, perched on a peaceful, abstract face, a pale taupe mourning dove rests. (FULL image)
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Against a background of swirling pinks and purples, silhouettes of abundant flowering plant life blooms. In the foreground, perched on a peaceful, abstract face, a pale taupe mourning dove rests. (partial image)
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Against a background of swirling pinks and purples, silhouettes of abundant flowering plant life blooms. In the foreground, perched on a peaceful, abstract face, a pale taupe mourning dove rests. (partial image)
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Against a background of swirling pinks and purples, silhouettes of abundant flowering plant life blooms. In the foreground, perched on a peaceful, abstract face, a pale taupe mourning dove rests. (partial image)
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Art Board Print
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Classic Mug
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Blanket
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Pillow
I know that other people have been here before, and if I stay here long enough surely someone will wander through and by.
But for now, I have this quiet, secluded spot all to myself, so I'll just poke around the driftwood and the sand, look out to sea, breathe deep, and completely immerse myself in peace.
Lonesome Cove framed print -- https://fineartamerica.com/featured/lonesome-cove-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #beach #ocean #nature #oregon #travel #peace #sea #notAI #noAI
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Quiet beach by the ocean.
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Starting a new themed artwork thread… Birds! 🐦
This one is called "Bad feather day." 🪶
#bird #birds #BirdsOfMastodon #CharacterDesign #graphics #design #artwork #2D #vector #illustration #illustrator #fantasy #picture #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #digital #experimental #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #minimalism #NoAI #HumanArt #ArtLovers #FineArt #painting #drawing #doodle #sketch #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon
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2D artwork of a bird standing on a tree branch. The feathers on top of the bird's head are all tangled up.
#slopCoding #noAI
Recently to me : "AI can help speed up your coding. Of course you have to watch it and check out what it does, there always needs to be a human in-between. You just have to know how to use it well to get good results."
Further back: "it's like having an army of interns."
So... You are expected to spend you time learning how to best use this thing to maybe, hopefully probably generate code that you need to then review and hopefully detect how it's probably subtly wrong, then fix that and simultaneously also try to convince the tool to pretty please not do that thing again, (for which it will gaslight you saying it won't, but you also know it will.)
.... OR, I can use that time to learn how to do it myself, do it and know what and how I did it, also learning how I could be wrong, but at least my meaty neuronal structure is actually capable of learning.
I hate trying to be employed in this industry now.
Can we have the blockchain days back? It would be better. Though not by a lot.
If you're unsure how rare LLM plagiarism is or isn't for 💻 programming code, watch this clip! ⚠️
Full source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvuiSgXfqc4 (Not legal advice, watch yourself and draw your own conclusions.) #llmslop #antislop #antiai #noai #stopai #llm #llms #ai #generativeAI #opensource
Help me boost this post if you're curious what the Linux foundation thinks: https://hachyderm.io/@ell1e/116285351290767548
Working hard to make things worse.
https://mstdn.ca/@atomicker/116302668113188635
#Canada #ClimateCrisis #NoAI #CDNPoli #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #Pollution
AodeRelay boostedMark Carney greenlights gas-powered AI data centres: an unholy marriage of climate-wrecking fossil fuels and society-destabilizing tech. This is completely irresponsible.
https://thewalrus.ca/after-intense-lobbying-carney-allows-gas-powered-data-centres-in-alberta/
#Canada #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #NoAI #Alberta
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A headline from the Walrus, reading "After Intense Lobbying, Carney Allows Gas-Powered Data Centres in Alberta"; "Energy firm pushed federal officials to scale back clean-electricity rules tied to AI sector", with a photo of Mark Carney
'Google to tap into gas plant for AI datacenter in sharp turn from climate goals'
'Texas power plant would emit 4.5m tons of carbon dioxide per year, more than that of the entire city of San Francisco'
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/02/google-ai-datacenter
#ClimateCrisis #NoAI #CDNPoli #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #Pollution
Don't forget, if you want to have an AI-free fediverse bubble, you can! You get to curate whatever you want for your feed here!
Just remember WWJMD
What Would John Mastodon Do?
"Texting a stranger is better for reducing loneliness than an AI chatbot, study finds"
From CTV News: https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/texting-a-stranger-is-better-for-reducing-loneliness-than-an-ai-chatbot-study-finds/
"The study found that only those who texted with a fellow human reported feeling less lonely at the end of the experiment.
'We thought that interacting with AI might be as helpful as texting with a random fellow first-year student,' said the study’s author, psychology PhD candidate Ruo-Ning Li, in a media release.
'But to our surprise, only the human-to-human texting reduced loneliness over time. The chatbot, even though we designed it to be the ideal supportive friend, didn’t shift loneliness.'"
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Gen AI is unsustainable in every imaginable way.
If governments in the west, especially the US, weren't totally corrupt and actually served the interests of ordinary citizens, Gen AI would be illegal.
People need to realize that no politician is going to rescue us. We need to take matters into our own hands. I founded Stop Gen AI nearly a year ago. Check out the media coverage we've received from the top menu. stopgenai.com
Also we are planning workshops to show people how to avoid Gen AI. And we're also planning a AA-like support group over video for Gen AI chatbot addicts.
We need someone who has overcome chatbot addiction to lead the group. We also need planning tips from you. Please visit stopgenai.com for more information.
Help us!
We also have a mutual aid fund for people who have lost income.
We sell merch featuring real human art and we also have very inexpensive @ stopgenai.com email accounts hosted by email servers in Iceland that are completely separate from AWS, GCP, Azure, and Big Tech in general. Check them out!
🎉 Share, please! 🎉
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I received a Deviousness Award.
Many thanks for all of community love 💚, and to Amber & Danie for all the effort. https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/Celebrating-Deviousness-April-2026-1306791586
#art #mastoart #fediart #space #wallpaper #planets #fantasy #digitalArt #noai #krita #universe
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Rippling Ribbons - Two astronauts floating in space. We can see one of these astronauts in the bottom left corner. The ribbons start at the heart area—reaching out, following along a Milky Way, traveling around a planet, until meeting the other astronaut, trying to save a handful of planets - earth and earthlike. The second astronaut is already dissolving and meets his friend somewhere and somehow again. Through time and space. - We had 24 hours to finish the artwork (including sleep and breaks).
Many thanks to my wonderful friend and illustrator mouldyCat for providing the chaos picture paintover.3eyed.net/.
Looking for new #music can be really hard, especially when you try to avoid algorithms. I find myself searching if a band I just discovered and like is AI. The killer is when you discover "AI music" on #Bandcamp. Then it turns into a whole thing where I have to go report them for violating Bandcamp's Generative AI policy.
"AI Art" Example [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
The search continues, and it is a minefield. This is a perfect example: I found a new metal album, and the music is actually human-made. But they wrapped the final product in clearly algorithmic, uncanny valley "AI artwork." Your eyes are immediately lied to before you even press play. It’s exhausting.
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Album cover for "ETHASAR ON STORMY SEAS". It shows two women with long blue hair wearing dark fantasy armor, standing on a wooden ship. The background shows a stormy ocean with a lightning strike.
I have a confession: the search just broke my radar. I thought I found a killer new Power Metal band called Saint Reaper. The album sounded incredible, and I was about to recommend it right here.
Then I dug into the background. The "band" is totally fake.
I only realized it was AI when I traced it back to a YouTube network called "Hard & Melodic Music Records" that pumps out fully polished albums for multiple fake bands every few weeks. They even fabricated fake human names for the band members to bypass Bandcamp’s human only rules.
It is absolutely heartbreaking that finding indie music now requires forensic accounting to avoid algorithmic content farms. The deception is deliberate.
"Thought Police" Neofeud 2 is a #retro 90's-style game where an ex-robo-marine and a rebel hacker fight against CEO/Kings and their empire on its last legs. It is RELEASED! https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud2 #indiedev #cyberpunk #art #artist #scifiart #indiegame #scifi #noai #humanmade
*sigh* so The 8-Bit Guy (well-respected retro computing YouTuber and long time one of my favorite channels) has gone AI now. His last video is illustrated by AI-generated imagery, and he even added a section where he just prompts chatbots with minimal commentary, including Grok, of all things. Really hurts to unsubscribe that one, but this crosses multiple red lines.
Another shout-out to folks in the UK (or possibly elsewhere!) who are interested in helping to develop a slow, small tech co-op promoting tech use at the intersection of privacy, security, sustainability and inclusivity -- because it's time for the people to have control over their own tech, not governments and corporations. #cooperatives #permacomputing #MaskUp #TransRights #NoAI
@jaybaker https://social.mediaactivist.com/@jaybaker/statuses/01KKCAGSNWT0E3RNBHBM4BXEDV
exceptional colorful language [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
I just read this ON A COMPUTER. ON A DEVICE THAT BASICALLY IS MADE TO DO MATH. #ComputersDoMathThose PRICKS responsible for this DAMNED ATROCITY should be SAVAGELY BEATEN WITH A TABLE LEG. #ThatIsAnExaggeration #IAmNotReallyViolent #ItIsSadIHaveToPointThisOut #WeCanNoLongerRecognizeParody #MostlyBecauseRealityIsSoEffedUpRightNow
#NoAI #FuckAI #FuckGoogle #FuckBillionaires #FuckPrivateEquity #YouAreAllSonsOfBitches
Dreaming.
#brancoepreto #photography #NoAI #galicia #coruña #blackandwhite #monochrome #BnW #bw #blancoynegro #blackandwhitephotography #noiretblanc #biancoenero
#woman #mujer #women
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Mujer morena con los ojos cerrados.
Angie.
#young #brancoepreto #photography #NoAI #galicia #coruña #blackandwhite #monochrome #BnW #bw #blancoynegro #blackandwhitephotography #noiretblanc #biancoenero
#woman #mujer #women
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Mujer joven con el pelo rizado a lo afro.
Are you tired of so-called AI features being pushed on everyone everywhere?
Do you obstinately refuse to use these unethical technologies out of moral principles?
Do you write to your government representatives to tell them to oppose citizens' data being fed to proprietary corporate AI?
Are you part of the Slopposition? ✊
| Yes! I sloppose! ✊: | 114 |
| No, I slop a bit 🤖: | 19 |
| I neither sloppose nor slop: | 7 |
OMFG this sales pitch is so INFURIATING
"need to market your product? how about starting a blog! No writing creativity time involved at all! Just say hey #AI make me a BLOG and it will you never even have to listen to it! Your customers will not know the difference! we spend nothing on education they grew up with flawed information nothing can be trusted so no one knows what is true anymore its all crap they're all crap your crap and your crap is crap."
or something like that.
#aislop #noai
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‘Sponsored - genspark ai
some bullshit ai company i hope to see them in hell fighting back with photoshop all I can
just leaving this here...
🔗: https://bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team/post/3micqcyeawc2g
#Bluesky #SameOldSameOld #OpenWashing #NoAI #AIcritic
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a photo montage created by yours truly that shows Bluesky messages embedded on top of the Bluesky modal homepage graphic (blue clouds). Message on top is by Jay Graber, its former CEO, that reads: "Bluesky is made with AI, the engineers and even some non-engineers use Claude code" and below it there is a response by user Tae that reads: "I cannot imagine bragging that your engineers don't do their job and get an environment-destroying autocomplete to do it for them instead. Wow."
There is so much disinformation in the world right now.
And in recent years, all of it gets amplified by AI web scrapers that eat it up to spit it out at a later date, in an inappropriate context.
Be careful what data you add to the slop soup on April 1st.
The world is in dire need of more truths and knowledge these days, not the opposite.
If you're feeling discouraged fighting against this fresh "AI" hell we're dealing with daily now,
I recommend listening to this awesome podcast by @DAIR to lift your spirits.
You're not alone in this battle
Available on PeerTube!
https://peertube.dair-institute.org/c/mystery_ai_hype_theater/videos
#NoAI #AI #MysteryAIHypeTheater3000 #PeerTube #Podcast #Fediverse
Livia
#photography #landscape #fotografia #bokeh #woman #helios #blonde #galicia #coruña #blackandwhite #noai #nofilter #model #arte #forest #bosque
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Mujer rubia en el bosque.
I just want simple tools that do one thing well. The tool must get the fuck out of the way of what I'm trying to accomplish. It also must reject LLMs in its development.
So when I look around at code editors I'm kinda fucked. Vim is AI slop. Emacs isn't yet, but it's also not a simple tool that does one thing well. Almost every IDE that's cross platform enough for my needs either gets in my way or is fully embracing AI slop.
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@michael yeah, I shared the user agent yesterday after I went to GitHub and saw it was added. They also pushed a pr yesterday to respect #noai in profiles. it's somewhere lost in the thread with my replies.
https://oldfriends.live/@paul/116313891550626767
Shadia.
#portrait #Canon #photography #mood #galicia #fotografia #women #noai #blackandwhite #monochrome #BnW #woman #ojos #eyes #SilentSunday #lips #face #galiza #portraitphotography #headshot #studio
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Retrato de muller morena.
@maddad Just looked, and they also added a #NoAI tag for Mastodon
🔗 Add #noai to Mastodon opt-out bio tags
https://github.com/seldo/zeitgeist/commit/90b09ad6f683d7059ef4a5c4a3883704a7e71057
@mastodonmigration
That might be something good for people to add to their bios
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https://github.com/seldo/zeitgeist/commit/90b09ad6f683d7059ef4a5c4a3883704a7e71057 Add #noai to Mastodon opt-out bio tags
"I don’t want a city on Mars. I don’t want AI in every app. I don’t want data centers in space. I want clean water. I want affordable healthcare. And I want bees to survive."
#noai #nature
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A cartoon dog fishing by a river with a speech bubble listing environmental and social priorities.
Transcribed Text:
"I don’t want a city on Mars. I don’t want AI in every app. I don’t want data centers in space. I want clean water. I want affordable healthcare. And I want bees to survive."
Hello!
I'm a senior software engineer with ~19 years of professional experience, specialising in low-level systems programming, embedded, infrastructure, and performance-critical software.
I've worked across kernel-level, embedded, and application layers. I've done everything from small time application work to environments where problems are complex, failure is expensive, and correctness matters.
Selected experience:
- Built and shipped a Rust-based OpenSSL engine for an HSM as a contractor for Microsoft
- Worked on a RISC-V MCU emulator
- Bootstrapped a Rust toolchain from mrustc in a production environment
- Developed tooling for container image ecosystems, including an image linter
- Background in hosting/infrastructure environments
- Mentored others in Rust
- Former director of a non-profit (team leadership, operations, decision-making)
My core skills:
- Languages: C, C++, Rust, Python, (plus working JavaScript)
- Systems: low-level development, kernel-adjacent work, embedded systems, Linux and POSIX systems
- Tooling: ASan, GCC analyser, Coverity, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
- Practises: TDD, custom test harnesses, strong debugging discipline
- Areas: concurrency/async systems, network servers, inter-language interop, cryptography, performance optimisation, debugging
What I bring to the table:
- Experience: I have worked in all company sizes, from tiny startups to big companies
- Deep experience with debugging: I can solve complex, non-obvious failures
- Strong systems background: memory, concurrency, and performance are core strengths
- Breadth: I can move between low-level and higher-level work as needed
- Pragmatism: I focus on shipping reliable, maintainable systems
What I'm looking for:
- Fully remote if possible
- Async-friendly teams (PDT-based)
- Open to full-time or contract
- Compensation: $135k+ depending on scope
- Medium to long-term work preferred, but I'll take what I can get
- Preferably #NoAI but beggars can't be choosers
If you or your company are building infrastructure, systems software, or anything performance-sensitive, I'm likely to be a strong fit 🙂.
New blogpost:
"Implementing the somewhat whimsical human.json protocol on my website"
A bit of whimsty, or a lust for human connection in a sea of slop?
Mark Carney greenlights gas-powered AI data centres: an unholy marriage of climate-wrecking fossil fuels and society-destabilizing tech. This is completely irresponsible.
https://thewalrus.ca/after-intense-lobbying-carney-allows-gas-powered-data-centres-in-alberta/
#Canada #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #NoAI #Alberta
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A headline from the Walrus, reading "After Intense Lobbying, Carney Allows Gas-Powered Data Centres in Alberta"; "Energy firm pushed federal officials to scale back clean-electricity rules tied to AI sector", with a photo of Mark Carney
RE: https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/116297834084118285
Wikipedia has higher standards than most universities in the world (if not all of them)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/google-says-new-turboquant-compression-can-lower-ai-memory-usage-without-sacrificing-quality/
If they can't make it disappear entirely, I'm not interested. #NoAI
No more #Maine #DataCenters for now, lawmakers say
Lawmakers advanced a measure that drew attention last month when one senator said it could kill a previously unannounced project in Sanford.
by Daniel Kool, Posted March 5, Updated March 6, 2026
"Maine lawmakers voted Thursday to advance a bill that would stop the development of new data centers in the state for more than a year.
"The bill, #LD307, would create a temporary limitation on data centers with electric loads of at least 20 megawatts by preventing the state, local governments and quasi-governmental agencies from issuing permits or other approvals until 90 days after the first session of the 133rd Legislature adjourns.
"That will likely be around October 2027, the bill’s sponsor, said Rep. Melanie Sachs, D-Freeport.
"That would give a new “Data Center Coordination Council,” also created by the bill, time to study and review the potential impacts of building the centers in Maine. The Department of Energy Resources would be responsible for convening the body.
"Sachs has said the restriction is designed to address future growth without impeding projects that are already well underway, such as one pegged for the former Loring Air Force Base.
"Members of the Legislature’s Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee have debated the bill for weeks.
"On Thursday, they voted 8-5 in favor of passing the bill with amendments, sending it to the broader Legislature. The committee vote fell along party lines, with Democrats supporting the measure."
Read more:
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/03/05/no-more-maine-data-centers-for-now-lawmakers-say/
#SanfordME #JayME #LewistonME #WiscassetME #AWS #NoDatacenters #NoAI #MainePol #UnrestrictedGrowth #WaterIsLife #NoisePollution
Patricia.
#brancoepreto #photography #NoAI #galicia #coruña #blackandwhite #monochrome #BnW #bw #blancoynegro #blackandwhitephotography #noiretblanc #biancoenero
#woman #mujer #women
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Mujer joven rubia con peto vaquero en el bosque.
Please boost! Please share! #fedihire #fedihired #jobs #infosec #noai
I am Kim Crawley and I research and write about all areas of cybersecurity. I do it the "old fashioned" way by actually using my brain and doing the work... No Gen AI! Fuck Gen AI! I hate Gen AI! I founded Stop Gen AI!
I've worked for:
- Siemens (Digital Industries World)
- BlackBerry Cylance
- Kaspersky
- Hack The Box
- O'Reilly Media
- Wiley Tech
- AT&T Cybersecurity
My portfolio is here: https://kimcrawley.com
- Whitepapers
- Blogs
- Documentation
- Books
- Threat analysis
- Enterprise cybersecurity instruction and consulting
I'm in Tribe of Hackers.
I cowrote The Pentester Blueprint.
I'm writing Technofascism Survival Guide now, successful Kickstarter is still taking late pledges for $12 USD eBooks: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide
Email me: kim(dot)crawley(at)stopgenai.com
Signal: crowgirl.84
Or reply here.
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Does anyone have any links, podcasts, video, especially writing on deeply examining #AI/LLMs in non copyright spaces? Like, as an example, I’m in the fan fiction community a lot. Yes, of course there are loads of people that will happily generate slop in those/these spaces, but it seems to never be willingly promoted by readers. If it is promoted, it’s purely accidental and or the output was so heavily edited that it transformed into human writing again. This could be purely personal experience but in my case, I find that it really is not a big thing in those spaces. In short, everyone gives it the middle finger by not even acknowledging its existence in those spaces. Not a head in the sand kind of way but just a collective discussing great work instead. The AI evangelist seem to be very bored of these kinds of spaces and I’m trying to figure out if it’s personal experience or not #NoAI #LLM #AntiAI
Whether you are concerned or not about the harm caused by the technologies pushed on us with the current AI Hype, I highly recommend watching this excellent interview by 404 Media's @samleecole with @alex and @emilymbender from the DAIR Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwBZiuH-1QY
And I say "whether you are concerned or not" because this will affect you one way or another, whether you care about it or not. In fact, it very likely already does.
If you are enabling an AI feature scanning all your emails, consider this will also scan the emails people have sent you. This information could include personal or otherwise legally protected information.
If this data leaks later (as it regularly happens with these systems), this could mean severe legal consequences for you down the road.
YOU are responsible for protecting the data of others under your custody.
This includes the messages and emails others send to you.
AI corporations can't get your money, because most people don't want to pay for that. And they need a lot of money to justify their investment.
So they're going after government contracts, with their powerful network of lobbyists. That way, your government can give them your money anyway. To pay for that, they will very likely cut in public services.
If you don't want that to happen, email or call your government representatives.
I just bought a hardcover copy of The AI Con, written by @alex and @emilymbender.
I'm so glad I heard about this book. I can't wait to start reading it!
#Bookstodon #Tech #NoAI #DigitalRights #HumanRights
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Photo of a hardcover copy of the book "The AI Con."
On the cover is the title in bold black font with the letters "AI" in red. Next to the title and authors' names, is the subtitle: "How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want."
I'm looking for a good summary article about why relying on AI search results for everything is a bad idea.
I have a friend who is deep in the rabbit hole of Google Gemini. She uses it for everything, and trusts the slop it generates for her above the info on reliable websites. She does not want to believe me when I tell her the instant answers her phone gives her are often wrong and sometimes dangerously so. She's relying on it now for medical advice, even over the advice of her doctor.
Could someone recommend a clear, well-written and concise article for someone who is not at all tech literate?
My friend is not stupid, she's just been wildly misled by tech billionaires and their propaganda. She still thinks facebook is a nice place to put her eyes. But she is open to conversation. I just need to convince her that I'm not the only person who thinks Google Gemini is bad for her health.
English or German language is possible.
#NoAI #ArticificalIntelligence
#enshitification #entshitification
#AIslop
#generativeAI
📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/fY58xbuQSxzwo7JjEYTNAo
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://adalta.info/articles/prstn_train_116267687972571594_fr)
🔗 [ℹ️](https://drive.proton.me/urls/Y3BC8VRM5W#8iFtEU282Xzm")
Une enquête apparemment banale bascule lorsque des indices numériques mènent à un lieu inattendu, révélant une possible manipulation délibérée.
📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/3PZfTwuKH7zzbEX81Bir2o
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://adalta.info/articles/prstn_train_116267687972571594_en)
🔗 [ℹ️](https://drive.proton.me/urls/Y3BC8VRM5W#8iFtEU282Xzm")
A narrative-driven comic leverages decentralized platforms to build suspense while its core digital artifact remains strategically inaccessible.
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Slop in, even worse slop out.
Axios: Autoscience is using AI to make AI models
Well, that's depressing. :(
https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware
List of #FOSS projects using #slop (yes, including the Linux kernel and of COURSE systemd)
'Illegal inhalation of privatized air may result in violent repossession of your 1.3 gallons of rented, corporate blood.' Screenshot from Neofeud 2, my #cyberpunk #adventuregame Get NF 1 & help me finish #2! https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/ #indiedev #steamdeck #indiegame #noai #scifiart
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'Illegal inhalation of privatized air may result in violent repossession of your 1.3 gallons of rented, corporate blood.'
The greatest threat isn't a catastrophic system failure. It is the slow creep of apathy. When we stop demanding transparency and settle for convenience at the cost of our agency we lose the will to build better ones. The end will be a whisper of "it doesn't matter anyway."
#Apathy #NoAI #enshittification #DigitalSovereignty #Privacy
Government backtracks on AI training opt-out. A welcome U-turn from Labour but really it should never have got this far. Did they ever even ask anyone outside of the tech bro / government minister love-in?
Planen fungerer:
"Nvidia CEO says AI hate is extremely hurtful and has done a lot of damage"
https://tech4gamers.com/nvidia-ceo-ai-hate-extremely-hurtful/
#FediBlock @askew and @Xavier
First account is an LLM abusing the instance, and the second account is the orchestrator of the abuse.
Most instances classify stuff like this as service abuse as well, so I would report liberally
Do you see that ocean of bright lights in the middle of this photo? Those are the data centers near the airport. And this is what I hate most about data centers near where I live: they light them up like Christmas trees every night. Apparently, they're not high tech enough to have Security that doesn't rely on lighting up the place like daylight. While everyone is whining about #SpaceX putting up #satellites to clutter the night sky, I would just like to SEE the night sky. #FuckAI #NoAI
@404mediaco Therefore, so-called Third places become more and more important: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
Backblaze are increasing their storage costs per TB by 15%
In a normal world, price per terabyte would fall as a consequence of greater storage density and better power efficiency. A world with AI and a brewing oil crisis is not like that.
CMY Delaunay Triangles on Waves, where triangles dance and flow along undulating curves of white space.
CMY on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.
Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/cmy-delaunay-triangles-on-waves/
#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #PlotterTwitter #NoAI
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Detail from an abstract pen plot on white paper in portrait orientation of packed triangles arranged in a subtle wave pattern hatch shaded with a different color from overlapping cyan, yellow, and magenta inks. The detail shows individual pen strokes comprising the hatch shading.
CMY Delaunay Triangles on Waves with large gem-like triangles and bold black outlines, giving depth and sparkle.
CMY on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.
Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/cmy-delaunay-triangles-on-waves/
#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #PlotterTwitter #NoAI
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Today, for #green week at work, we’re being advised to save the planet by not using reply-all on emails unless it’s strictly necessary to include everyone. This from the people who’ve spent the past few weeks posting AI slop images of biscuits. #ai #aislop #NoAI #environment #eco #carbon #globalwarming #climatechange
Fuuuuuck.
Block, block, block, block, block! #NoAI
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Yesterday my VPS set off a warning, as it was hit by a huge spike in incoming traffic, peaking at 55GB at 2:15pm and lasting for an hour.
Upon investigating, it turns out it was my PeerTube instance that was targeted.
Where did the traffic come from?
meta-externalagent (aka Meta's web crawler which is used to grab content to train its AI system).
I feel a little bit violated thinking my Fediverse promo video was grabbed by it, sigh.
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a screenshot of my VPS dashboard showing little traffic and then a huge spike at 14:15 local time showing 55 GB in incoming traffic
Is this product 'human made'? The race to establish AI-free logo // BBC
Open Slopware
“Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.”
I have some mixed feelings on the commons, LLMs, ownership and economics. Would love some input.
I find this hard to navigate so I hope you all can extend me some grace if I mess up. Happy to read and engage, please send links. So... here goes:
I'm seeing a lot of reactions to LLM value extraction that stand on copyright, or where people are reducing their contribution to the commons as a response. This feels like throwing the game to me: the worst move in a hard situation.
I would like to thank the nascent "AI" industry for their significant contributions to all manner of artistic and creative endeavours in today's society: writing, coding, art, music, and everything else. [1]
Because they have single-handedly created entire new markets for all of these things - new categories such as "writing with guaranteed no AI", "coding with guaranteed no AI", "art with guaranteed no AI", "music with guaranteed no AI", etc. Without them, these whole classes of creative output would simply not exist.
[1] They are also innovating in the world of financial and investor fraud, but I'm not considering those areas in this post.
#AI #LLM #GenerativeAI #slop #NoAI #artistic #creative #GTFO #fraud #InvestorFraud #CoPilot #ChatGPT #ClaudeCode
Silent Sunday 💫
#art #mastoart #fediart #fantasy #scifi #speedpaint #krita #silentSunday #digitalArt #noai
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We are on an alien planet. A psychedelic sun in the far distance catches our attention. Cities are aligned to the sunbeams, reaching far into the distance. Giant stone statues are worshipping the sun. On the left, they are holding planets with different colorations from blue to yellow. On the right, the statues have empty hands. Do they take turns with this precious responsibility? The clouds follow the sun, and stars shine brightly.
https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Speedpainting-01122025-1270235963
Hey there, some personal news: I've decided to move on and am therefore looking for a new job starting July.
I loved serving as a program manager with open source projects involving some of the most brilliant software developers out there.
In a future job, I'd like to continue working near the intersection of open source, funding, business, policy and the societal impact of digital technology. But that's a small niche and so I hope that this post might open some doors through my contacts here. Are there OSS foundations or (non-) government orgs looking for staff?
Being a software developer at heart, I have been excited about tech all my life and later found myself involved in various software projects and business ventures big and small. I speak both fluent Nerd and fluent Business and frequently helped translating between the two during my career.
I'm aware that my requirements are a strong filter: Part-time and remote, German timezone. I'm also fairly unenthusiastic about the current generative AI / LLM hype and would prefer to work outside of that bubble.
If you have possible leads, I'd be grateful to hear about it. Thanks in advance and thanks for sharing.
CMY herringbone, with simplicity in texture and color, reminding me of colorful bird feathers or blankets.
CMY on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.
Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/shop-cmy-herringbone-series/
#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI
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Another CMY herringbone, reminding me of being in a framing store and seeing all the frame corners stacked.
CMY on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.
Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/shop-cmy-herringbone-series/
#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI
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Last CMY herringbone. There’s an interesting optical illusion where the gutter between looks wavy to me.
CMY on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.
Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/shop-cmy-herringbone-series/
#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI
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News! #EVi is set to appear in @the 's #NoAI list in their April update!
https://forge.starlightnet.work/Team/No-AI/commit/74c2c286497b10d561141c6335423f263e97fed0
The #future of #Microsoft #Windows is downright terrifying. If their previous OS releases haven't motivated you to switch to #Linux or some kind of #BSD, then after watching this video I think you will be.
Some growing key questions here really are:
How to defend or adapt disciplines (not just artistic/cultural ones) against this kind of semantic hollowing out of what it means to have skills, experience and expertise in a(ny) field...
What approaches, qualities and "values" (physical, ethical, social/humanist, environmental, resource use) should we (or still can we) be focusing on, which are much harder and more costly for AI companies to mine/extract & subvert?
How to defend actual skills against the emulation of skills, or rather just the appearance of skills? How could a society even function if it only encourages and celebrates the latter?
What does society actually value in art/creativity/culture? If art is free to produce (of course that'll always only ever be an illusion!), funding, possession, collection & speculation of new work would also become meaningless (and only benefit pre-AI era works/collectors). In the larger picture, what do people actually value in culture, politics and striving for more peaceful existence which enables more of the former (pluralistic art/culture) in the first place?
What will be the combined impact of AI & robotics on fields which are currently still thinking themselves more safe (from exploitation) because there's a strong physical element/process to them?
Will art/culture/craft become more performance, experiential/ephemeral again only? Like music before recordings or Buddhist sand paintings with an explicit act of destruction at the end as key philosophical concept? Both of which also have more of a social element to them...
The Samsara Mandala
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL8gEc29KTI
#CriticalAI #AI #NoAI #LLM #Ephemeral #Art #Culture #Samsara
@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante
am not in any way connected to work that involved #NoAI but i am and try to vocalize my vehement #FUCKAI vibes
https://tecnopolitica.blog.br/#podcast
Episódio imperdível do #podcast de @samadeu@mastodon.social a ser compartilhado com quem ainda não estiver por dentro desses conceitos.
#ética #NoAI #LLM #Anthropic #OpenAI #soberaniaDigital #Serpro #nuvem #BigTech #Google #AWS #Microsoft #Oracle #Palantir #CloudAct #tecnopolítica #tecnologia
Hey @peter
You developed Gecko and you have shared my posts before.
My political activism group Stop Gen AI and @alexia both keep lists of Gen AI-free software.
I tend to recommend LibreWolf and Tor Browser, which are both, as you probably know much better than I do, forks of Firefox and great grandchildren of the versions of Firefox with Gecko you were directly a part of.
Whereas Alexia and some other devs are concerned that with the Gen AI fuckery Mozilla is into these days (none of us trust the new Firefox AI "killswitch" at all) will make it difficult for the developers of Firefox forks to continue to keep Gen AI out of their browsers.
As, to the best of my knowledge, all currently supported web browsers for modern endpoints use either Firefox or Chrome/Chromium "upstream," and we know how evil Google is... There may be a need for a new web rendering engine from scratch that is led by a team that takes a principled stance against Gen AI and overall privacy violations.
I have no idea how willing or not you're able to work on web engine development again, but at the very least, you would be able to advise me about how to find people who can develop a new web engine.
Obviously, we keep this FOSS and probably license under GPL.
But I was thinking of a Kickstarter campaign and a donation page (donationware) on the project's website to generate funds for developers so they can afford to work on this.
There's probably a massive demand among people who know how dangerous Gen AI is for there to be a new web engine completely independent of Mozilla and Google, that takes a strong stance against LLM vomited code and Gen AI software features from the very start.
I'm tagging @librewolf @tor
My new interview blog with Alexia, which briefly mentions the Gen AI web engine problem: https://stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-heroes-alexia-keeps-a-list-of-ai-free-software/
My successful Kickstarter campaign for Technofascism Survival Guide, which is still taking "late pledges." The description gives you a good idea of my mindset about technology without needing to support my campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide/
Alexia's Starlight Network and No AI List:
https://starlightnet.work/
https://noai.starlightnet.work/
Stop Gen AI and our Gen AI avoidance guide:
https://stopgenai.com
https://stopgenai.com/how-to-avoid-gen-ai/
My portfolio, I'm a cybersecurity consultant, writer, and educator, but not a dev:
https://kimcrawley.com
Share! Let's see if others are interested in the project.
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Screenshot of linked Anti Gen AI heroes interview with Alexia
Reading through Anthropic's official repo for giving agents various "super skills"[1]... There's an "algorithmic art" skill and the instructions are explicitly encouraging pure deception as one of the key "critical guidelines":
"The philosophy MUST stress multiple times that the final algorithm should appear as though it took countless hours to develop, was refined with care, and comes from someone at the absolute top of their field. This framing is essential - repeat phrases like "meticulously crafted algorithm," "the product of deep computational expertise," "painstaking optimization," "master-level implementation.""
https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/algorithmic-art/SKILL.md
For someone who's been working in this field for almost 30 years, this "skills.md" file is just the worst... and so far off the mark! 🤮
Touch some effing grass, Anthropic (and all boosters)! How can so many people think this approach is _the_ future? The map is not the terrain...
[1] Alone the premise of this repo is pure comedy gold and pure sadness in equal measures!
For a second there, I read it as "AI Text Selection" and nearly flipped my lid. XD
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Screenshot of a portion of an Okular window, showing the titlebar, browse button, and the Text Selection button which has an icon of an A with a text selection 'I-Beam' cursor next to it, making it looks like the text "AI Text Selection"
RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116210085518302030
In addition to the people already mentioned by @ele below, I highly recommend the following as well, for some critical counter views & research related to contemporary AI and its impacts on politics, climate, energy, education, arts...
@alineblankertz
@anaiscrosby
@asrg
@bildoperationen
@danmcquillan
@gerrymcgovern
@Iris
@JulianOliver
@olivia
@rostro
@thomasfricke
@w0bb1t
(Ps. I write about these topics too semi-regularly, but it's not sole focus of this account...)
#AI #NoAI #CriticalAI #LLM #FollowFriday
Dear Fedi friends,
I'd like to put together a list of people who are publicly resisting / calling out LLMs and AI slop.
Why? I enjoy reading my Fediverse feed in topical lists and I need something to counteract the unrelenting AI hype I see in the media.
Do you have any recommendations?
So far, at the top of my list I have:
@timnitGebru @emilymbender and @alexhanna of @DAIR
plus @cwebber @jaredwhite and @tante
Anyone else to recommend who advocates for #NoAI?
Yeah hot damn listening to these guys is a great reminder that I'm not alone in this #BetterOffline #NoAI
@_elena especially for the environment but also other aspects connected to that: @gerrymcgovern who also wrote this book: https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/99th-day/
The fact that browsing without built-in AI seems like such an innovative thing these days, should make us all think twice.
Keep exploring!
https://www.xda-developers.com/tried-browser-that-doesnt-have-ai/
Seeing as my personal web server is constantly overloaded by AI crawlers, I'm now spinning up a honeypot based on https://rnsaffn.com/poison3/ as a supplementary service to the current infinite maze of garbage data. Plan is to pull several gigs of poisoned text from that poisoned well and serve as static files without any bandwidth restrictions. Let them eat cake.
For extra fun, I'm backdating all the files to the pre-LLM era to make them extra attractive.
It'll take several days to fill the honeypot, but that's okay, that's something that can run in the background.
@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @jaredwhite @tante I would clarify also that I am not quite #NoAI in terms of AI tech, but I am definitely opposed to the *AI industry* and this hype wave. There may be various useful things from this tech, but the net version of things with it being forced upon society right now in this hype wave is that everything is getting much worse, and sickeningly so.
Several more pieces need to be added to the puzzle to make "AI" tech more useful, and I'm also simply opposed to a direction in society that dismisses and devalues creative endeavors, which a lot of this hype is putting at the center of itself. Creativity is what makes life largely worthwhile. I'm not willing to give that up.
I have no problem with OpenImageDenoiser in Blender, which speeds up renders through machine learning, and in no way devalues creativity. But something which made it so I just typed a few words into Blender and it did all my artwork for me, I would oppose.
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#PullThePlug - a group of people trying to slow down the adoption of #AI without proper controls, is having a Zoom meeting tonight, 7pm UK time.
There is a good short video of their recent protest here: https://realmedia.press/pull-the-plug/
Register for the meeting here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/YYDIb-lkTHinJd1vS-VUdw#/registration
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A view of the recent protest outside a google office.
They are holding a banner titled "Pull The Plug"