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

[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

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@simonzerafa @magic_smoke @adafruit I don't think she's looking for solutions. But also, a mere six months ago, we didn't need to dumpster dive for consumer tech that used to cost peanuts.

[markasspandi@shrimpnet.gej.pet]

@adafruit this is like the worst fucking response to this situation

[vincarsi@mastodon.social]

@theorangetheme @renedudfield @adafruit right, because a lot of people use a tool for frivolous things, that means there's no use case that could actually be valid or accommodating of disability.

[glassresistor@sfba.social]

@kholerik @adafruit what did stross do?

[0x6e6174@mastodon.catgirl.cloud]

@adafruit@fosstodon.org "people are mad at me for destroying natural resources and contributing to slopificatian because I'm a woman, not because I'm destroying natural resources and contributing to slopificatian!!!!" are you actually hillary clinton? are you? is that who you are? is there a brain in there or is there a miniature hillary clinton pulling levers?

grow up.

[markasspandi@shrimpnet.gej.pet]

@adafruit You (I mean Adafruit in general, not this account, but you ain't better) did not at all answer any criticism that you included yourself in this post.
This post is worse insult than anything those people have said, and I include "go fuck yourself" one as well.
No, this is NOT gender issue. It didn't matter if it was a woman, a man or anyone else. People are critical of LLMs for valid reasons. Men that use LLMs are criticized too, for the same reasons.
And you turning this into a gender issue, feels like a spit in the face.
As a woman, I feel more insulted by your stupid fucking comparision of a very serious issue which is gender discrimination (an issue which exists to this day, in very serious forms), to you getting couple of mean comments for a very valid reason.

[mawhrin@circumstances.run]

@adafruit tooting through and doubling down on arseholery always works.

[sammy@cherrykitten.gay]

@adafruit ah yes, ignoring all the women and nonbinary people who criticize your use of fascist software to make a smug point, go fuck yourself

[s0@cathode.church]

@adafruit lol get fuuuucked

[azuaron@cyberpunk.lol]

@mcc @adafruit@fosstodon.org Yeah, I dropped Adafruit when they hired that cop and wrote a puff piece about how cool it was that he used RaspberryPis to illegally surveil Muslims. Then their social media manager had an absolute meltdown when someone politely pointed out how messed up that was.

[hatzka@tech.lgbt]

@adafruit out of curiosity, Phillip (and yes, this post is credited to Phillip Torrone), is there a reason this toot doesn't actually name the "tool" she used?