I think i may need a break from mastodon.

[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.

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@dalias @cr1901

I scrolled your feed for quite some time and I saw one singular post about Lego figures that was anything besides angry reposts about AI.

I saw nothing about what you have created, what you are working on, why I would have any interest in your voice.

You might be absolutely right about everything you say and share, but I am never going to want to follow a feed of joyless anger.

I can't tell you how to utilize your social media or that your primary purpose for using it shouldn't be amplifying the messages you find most imporant.

It's just not why I'm here.

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@Photo55 A few people have pointed this out and I'm reading up on the filtering function now. My main concern is that a two letter term might be an overly broad thing to filter, but I can give it a shot.

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@gloriouscow @cr1901 Maybe federation does something weird, but from what I recall/skim in the past couple days I've posted or boosted joy at seeing Girlyman is back, vintage equipment, information exposing funding sources behind the "age verification" offensive, joy at moving to Codeberg, folks searching for work, stuff about portability vs Apple bugs, joy of ppl making games, requests for help choosing software, info on new privacy threats, ...

On top of a pretty large amount of boosts related to AI threats, but a number of these are about strategies for dealing with demands to use it, ways to be effective communicating with project maintainers requesting policies to keep it out, etc. And some warnings about key infrastructure being compromised. No "angry reposts".