No Tools for You: A Century of Men Policing Women’s Tools

[froztbyte@mastodon.social]

@lea @adafruit there’s a whole segment of people who think that being critical of all these stupid promptmachines is “racism”

so this just seems like hitting another very stupid vein

[lucydev@wetdry.world]

@adafruit maybe the problem is setting the world on fire and boiling our oceans in the process of designing the PCB due to AI usage?

No?

Yeah sure, must be discrimination then.

[protofoxriley@tech.lgbt]

@golemwire LMAO "AI-Phobic"?? AI is the biggest waste of resources and is a theft tool used by the inept to "make" things they could never muster the effort nor the talent to make themselves. Plant a tree next time you spout nonsense to replace the oxygen you have wasted.

[froztbyte@mastodon.social]

@theorangetheme @adafruit Hahaha holy shit

Brb calling the burn unit

[docpop@mastodon.social]

@adafruit Mastodon: famous for our love of CEOs and male founders

[jonathankoren@sfba.social]

@docpop @adafruit there are not enough poxes to go around to all the houses that need poxing.

[lettosprey@tech.lgbt]

@paulywill Know much about the Luddites? What they fought for?

You think Luddites were against technology

That seems to be the story the capitalist bros want to sell you.

Could do well with a bit reeducation. They were not against technology. They were against technology being used to oppress labor.

Being critical of big tech's grip on us is not a bad thing. Not falling for a "tool" based on theft and absurd resource usage, that doesn't even have a functioning business model because it is too dang expensive to maintain, is not equal to learning to use a hammer.

We could all learn a thing or two from the Luddites.

And claiming that being skeptical to using AI is "anti-woman" is an insult to all the woman in tech that battle real sexism every day.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/

@adafruit @ladyada

[katlovecat@mk.absturztau.be]

@adafruit@fosstodon.org You think that we don't know that you have used AI for your blog and doxxed someone's location on Bluesky.

You deserve the hate

[zeitkunst@post.lurk.org]

@aparrish I've been watching her recent LLM work, along with the Teensy debacle, with a lot of sadness and frustration. But to be honest, the media lab (where I first knew of her work and met her while I was a student) does a terrible job of preparing people for a critical approach to technology. I got basically blacklisted for wanting to read critical and feminist STS while a student. So many of the problems of the lab can be traced to not learning these histories and theories.

I can't understand how many people still think it's okay to use Claude, even if trained on your own data, given the relationships between Anthropic and the military, not to mention its theft of dozens of my friends' writing. It's so frustrating.

[zeitkunst@post.lurk.org]

@aparrish plus, I still don't know how people have resolved for themselves the open source licensing issue with LLMs. If the model is trained, in part, on (A)GPL code, shouldn't the generated code itself be licensed similarly? It would be just so appropriate if the outcome of all of this was everything being generated by LLMs is deemed to be (A)GPL licensed.

[faintdreams@dice.camp]

@Ananas @adafruit

Eloquently put.

Shame on Adafruit for burying the lede in that most people aren't actually upset about -
"Woman Does Thing' but it was "Woman Does Thing using Claude LLM aka plagiarism, environment destroying, Billionaire enabling tech"

[mrs_malice@mastodon.world]

@adafruit hey quick question if you asked limor to vacuum and she said she didn’t want to, would you tell her she’s being misogynistic against herself and better get the fuck to it or would you use some other bullshit manipulation play to make her think and do what you want her to

or do you just reserve that kind of crap for us?

[aparrish@friend.camp]

@zeitkunst if nothing else, the prevalence of LLMs has been useful in how it reveals whose commitments are paper-thin when it comes to the idea of open culture and the commons as a way of enriching everyone (and not just the already wealthy)

[emenel@post.lurk.org]

@zeitkunst @aparrish even funnier, at the moment anything produced with an llm is public domain.

[silverwizard@convenient.email]

@adafruit ok, this blog post is embarassinng. a person being called bad for being a captain planet villain is wild.

[max@toet.dnzm.nl]

@adafruit I can't speak for others, but to me the problem wasn't with the gender of whoever did the slop. Don't make this about something it isn't about.

People are royally fed up with the "AI EVERYWHERE" stance, no matter who does it.

[cholling@bytes.programming.dev]

@adafruit "When a man uses an LLM to generate boilerplate code, he’s a savvy early adopter, a start up founder, a guy ahead of the curve."

No, he's a plagiarizing piece of shit.

[evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@deathkitten Check @adafruit blog, there are a lot of articles about using #LLM in electronics "design". If they are going to adopt LLMs, then there are no surprise that they are trying to whitewash it as much as possible , using all available methods.

When I was learning electronics at university, drawing such simple electronic schemas and footprints was a key to be able to do much more complex things with EDA. Outsourcing this mental work to Plagiarized Information Synthesis System is a literally: "you will learn nothing and be happy"

[aapis@mastodon.world]

@adafruit 😬 yikes

[evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@simonzerafa @magic_smoke Their prices will rise up too. I monitor used hardware prices and saw how used DDR5 memory prices in my region already became higher. The same will happen with HDDs too, I think.