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

[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

[nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@mcc @adafruit

[raphaelmorgan@disabled.social]

@adafruit the hilarious assumption that a man could try to sell AI generated slop on the fediverse with no pushback 😂 as if we aren't bullying LLM bros on here daily

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@adafruit Do you and Mozilla use the same Denny's placemat PR firm?

[raphaelmorgan@disabled.social]

@renedudfield @adafruit "As usual, women are taking the brunt of new technology job losses. Translators, educators, customer support." And this is a defense of the machine they're being replaced with... how? Women are facing more harm than men from the LLM hype cycle, so the solution is to keep it going???

[ananas@jorts.horse]

@adafruit

Not every tool is good
One of my heatguns was recalled for fire risk
I sent it in
It was a bad tool
LLMs, Gemini included, are also bad tools

If I had to double check my cake mix for poison every single time I used it I wouldn't use that cake mix
Or eat a cake made from it

You're failing to recognize WHY people are rejecting LLMs and things made with it

They're bad tools

If a robot vacuum cleaner does a good job but has a 1% chance of eating my cat it's not allowed in my house

[jpaskaruk@growers.social]

@adafruit amusingly though: @cstross blocked me a couple years ago, because he was (if I recall correctly, can't be arsed to dig up the toot but it's back there somewhere) either boosting or else posting AI slop images and laughing at how bad they were. I had been an avid follower, but I expressed my surprise that he, an author no less, would be playing with the plagiarism machine in public.

As much as I tend to agree with the mob that using this planet killer was a terrible idea that you should be ashamed about, rather than what you're doing right here, Stross seems like he's mostly concerned with building up some sort of "profile" on here, and does not like to have his hypocrisy pointed out.

I think there are going to be some incredible strides made in education with this tech, but not until these psychopaths are devoured by angry street mobs and we start using it judiciously and without murdering towns and communities.

People in America have brown tap water so you could avoid work of which you are perfectly capable. You didn't need the help. There's no justifying it. Brown tap water.

[ret@furry.engineer]

@adafruit ratio

[cyclopentane@rheinneckar.social]

@adafruit worst fucking take bestie

[40796c19@void.lgbt]

@renedudfield @adafruit All of the fields you list have faced these massive quantities of job losses specifically because of LLMs replacing humans. "AI" is overwhelmingly being used as a tool by the ownership class to skip human labor, not by workers to chase already endless and exploitative efficiency targets