I think i may need a break from mastodon.

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@anton @aeva @lritter

this is my surprised face

[anton@icosahedron.website]

@aeva @gloriouscow @lritter
Oh, also:
‘bird of the day’ @ birds @ moresci.sale

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@gloriouscow @anton @aeva imagine if it were all like "nah you can't follow birds anymore nowadays it's all pensioners posting audrey hepburn lookalikes from the 60s"

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@lritter @anton @aeva

i think, also acceptable

[photo55@mastodon.social]

@gloriouscow blocking keywords any use?

[frela@tech.lgbt]

@gloriouscow Something I hadn't seen anyone suggest: you don't owe anyone to follow them or see their posts. It's *your* online experience, not theirs. "You make me feel bad" is reason enough to block/mute/unfollow someone who raises your cortisol, even if you don't think they're a bad person.

Additionally, I don't know what server software your instance is on, but Mastodon has... well not "good" per se, but definitely workable personal moderation tools. Keywords and hashtags can be blocked with reasonable accuracy. (1/2)

[frela@tech.lgbt]

@gloriouscow But honestly, just following the right people and hashtags is doing wonders for avoiding current dramas. Literally every major Fediverse drama since I joined I have found out about not by seeing the drama itself, but by seeing people *complaining* about the drama. And just as well now, I don't really see anti-AI posts that much, I'm chilling over here with my bunch of queer artist and hacker creatures who might mention it from time to time but overall just... continue to do their own thing.

So please, take some agency over your online experience. There's no algorithm in here to feed you only things that keep you watching ads for as long as possible. You have to put some work in yourself in order to create a nice experience, but I promise - it's worth it. (2/2)

[juliancalaby@social.treehouse.systems]

@gloriouscow I feel much the same way, but I don't feel I need to take a break at this time.

Part of this is that I perceive the endless (and somewhat pointless) anti-AI posts are a reaction to AI being thrust upon people against their wishes. "Screaming into the void" in a way.

The other part of this is potentially a little "herd signalling", saying loudly and proudly that they're part of the anti-AI herd and feeling community about that.

In my particular situation, it's pleasing to see that I'm not alone in my feelings about this, as I'm pretty much the lone AI Luddite in an office of people pushing LLMs. And as much as I've made my bed and will lie in it, it is pleasing to know that I'm not the only one out there in a similar situation.

[nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt]

@gloriouscow please take care! It's really difficult to avoid this topic lately :(

[groupnebula563@mastodon.social]

@gloriouscow honestly, whenever something like that happens to me i'll just put a filter on the term for a while. helps a ton :)

[grryboy@social.horrorhub.club]

@gloriouscow Sounds like it's been really frustrating for you.

I know post filtering has worked really well. I filter content which is likely to impact my mental health. YMMV

[brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org]

@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space i am trying to boost less ai posts but not always succeeding. anyway a break can be good for mind and eyes and posture

[happyborg@fosstodon.org]

@gloriouscow filters

[t36s@social.ordinal.garden]

@gloriouscow May I recommend creating a filter? I filter a few things. I find that it works very well.

[ephemeral@mograph.social]

@gloriouscow @cr1901 I hear you, and thanks for posting this. I am also jaded from this.

I know people who use these tools, and am finding the flattened argument against them hard to sit with. In particular, two friends who are severely dyslexic have found some solace in chatGPT as an aide. They are aware of the problems, but are also aware of their systematic exclusion based on ability. This is not as black and white as people tend to make it on here.

[maxime_andre@mastodon.xyz]

@gloriouscow so true, i'm a little bit tired of that as well. that's why i try to avoid talking about it.
i want to see cool stuff, i'm less interested to be informed that vim will contain generated code.

[x_cli@infosec.exchange]

@gloriouscow I was forced to quit my job this week after the CEO unilaterally decided to force LLM on all employees. This move was done after a three months recruitment process and six interviews during which they swore they would NEVER do such a thing.
I was happy to read anti-AI stuff on the fediverse this week to steam off. This gave me strength to feel that I was not alone.

I understand your topic burnout. To be honest, I sometimes feel like this is not a topic burnout for me, but a carrier burnout, if not more.

All of this to say that it would be sad to leave behind the fediverse because of this topic burnout. Unfortunately, other social medias are also filled with the same topic; the opinions are just in favor of it, there.

You should feel entitled to filter your own timeline. And if you can't, you are obviously entitled to take a break from social medias. I sometimes feel this is the right move.

[farrisswisher@c.im]

@gloriouscow this has been getting under my skin a bit as well. Especially as ai-related things are happening in my own workplace and I come on here to find... more ai discussion.

I dont remember who said it but I read on here some time ago about how anti-war media is just as obsessed with war as pro-war media, and I think that this anti-ai circlejerk has the same thing going on. There's a time and place to make the arguments against it, and even crash out over it if one needs, but if it's all we post about then we're doing no better than the boosters

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@gloriouscow @cr1901 I want to challenge your premise that we're speaking to an audience who isn't here, to the AI pushers.

The way I see it, if you're worried about being made irrelevant, if you believe this current push by the technofascist AI cult has any chance of leading to anything like "AGI", then you are our primary audience.

My goal in speaking out against and debunking their parlor tricks is to build a feeling among people who feel threatened by AI and forced into adopting it that all our enemy has is smoke and mirrors on top of standard capitalist abuses, not any miracle technology that is going to deliver them a win over us.

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@gloriouscow @cr1901 Yes surely as you say "AGI" is possible. It's possible to build a machine that replicates the nervous system of an animal with intelligence and give it matching sensory inputs, and any reasonable person would expect it to exhibit the same kind of intelligence.

This has nothing to do with the path the AI cult is on, which is literally Dan Brown level of bullshit, claiming that the secrets of uncovering new truths about the world are buried in the statistical patterns of past human language usage.