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

[sterophonick@wetdry.world]

@adafruit how much more embarrassing can you get?

[burnoutqueen@todon.nl]

@renedudfield @adafruit

I am actually disabled and I don't use AI. Saying that I'm too stupid to do things myself, that I need Sam Altman's and Elon Musk's slop machine because I can't make things fast enough, is an insult

[witchgirls@woof.tech]

@adafruit You really did not have to post this.

[burnoutqueen@todon.nl]

@renedudfield @adafruit

I am also a trans woman

[julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social]

@adafruit i am a woman and I feel your argument is deeply misogynistic

[magic_smoke@blahaj.zone]

@adafruit@fosstodon.org Shit like this is why I can't upgrade my NAS this year. The machine which stores the VM where my local git server lives, and the pool which contains the repos themselves.

Its why replacing broken parts cost more than buying brand new hardware did two years ago.

Why so many of our fellow open source developers are getting absolutely bombarded by useless pull requests.

AI companies are the reason women like me are gatekept from the tools they need to create and share their creations.

https://mashable.com/article/ai-hard-drive-hdd-shortages-western-digital-sold-out

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

[burnoutqueen@todon.nl]

@adafruit I am a trans woman and I hate AI slop.

I don't support using tools invented by anti environmental, sexist, pedophillic men.

ChatGPT is used to objectify women. It is used to devalue the work of young and disabled people. It is an insult to the craft of electronics. It is an insult to the disabled. And it is an insult to the thousands of women who have been put into porn without their consent by way of "genAI" technology.

[burnoutqueen@todon.nl]

@adafruit and no, none of the other models are any better.

Grok is in the center of a pedophilia scandal, for just one example.

[teflontrout@beige.party]

@renedudfield @adafruit "employed by Microslop"? Shocking

[octaviaconamore@cutie.city]

@burnoutqueen @renedudfield @adafruit same here, a woman and literally bedridden, and absolutely disgusted by genAI and LLMs

also, my observation over the last year or two is that those that defend genAI, LLMs, and their disgusting owners tend to be men

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@adafruit Using fake feminism and a bunch of invalid comparisons to defend a technology that men are more likely to use than women ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.06556 ) and which use consolidates all power and money into the hands of a few billionares (all men).

No. No collaboration with LLMs, no credibility for LLM defenders, no fascist AI future. And no more Adafruit orders from me

[discatte@digipres.club]

@mcc not to mention they harassed several people and revealed private personal info (mine) recently. all in "defense" of anyone critical of their ai usage.

[lucky@mastodon.nz]

@adafruit You already have plenty of women in your replies telling you this is ridiculous and shameful but I'd like to add one more.

Pretending our anti-AI convictions are sexist is insulting.

Pretending AI is as useful as my vacuum cleaner is laughable.

Pretending we need this technology is embarrassing.

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@adafruit hi ptorrone! are you tired of ban-evading and harassing people yet?

[soc@chaos.social]

@adafruit 🤡

[monkee@other.li]

@adafruit@fosstodon.org Have you lost your fucking minds?

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@magic_smoke @adafruit

Look for recertified or reconditioned drives 🙂

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@renedudfield @adafruit Ah yes, all of those economically disadvantaged people spending $200 a month to generate anime girls with three breasts. "You wouldn't take away someone's wheelchair, would you?"

[tock@corteximplant.com]

@adafruit Like RaspberryPi, Adafruit is leaving my favorites list for shopping sites.

Holy hell did this miss the mark. Millions of women's works are slurped up by AI everyday and regurgitated at will by an unthinking LLM engine. Recast as a "thinking machine's result" with no renumeration to female artists, authors, and creators. This couldn't be a more masculine way to rob women of their life's work and agency. Even if given for free or under Creative Commons, stripping a project from it's authorhood when a woman made it should be appalling enough.

Please reconsider this position.

[rey@toot.cat]

@adafruit y'all don't seem to play the woman card when you're doxxing, harassing, and block-evading

anyway, good luck not blowing up boards