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Exequiel's avatar Exequiel @candlegrenades.bsky.social
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I didn't know shit as a kid = things didn't exist

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Paris Marx's avatar Paris Marx @parismarx.bsky.social
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The story is always the same: major tech companies tell us they care about the environment to silence criticism, then never actually follow through. Google’s emissions are up ~50% in 5 years, following similar news Microsoft is also blowing past its climate commitments.

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Patrick Nathan's avatar Patrick Nathan @patricknathan.bsky.social
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“AI” is the culmination of the tech industry. Every time you use it, you destroy the environment, erode labor protections, endanger workers overseas, enrich the ruling class, and make something unforgivably worthless, all at the same time – and it's all hidden from you in a frictionless distraction.

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John Morrison's avatar John Morrison @localcelebrity.bsky.social
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Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.

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Lauren McKenzie [free 🇵🇸]'s avatar Lauren McKenzie [free 🇵🇸] @themckenziest.gay
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Do you remember when there were bugs everywhere? Especially flying ones? We don’t have a century. We’re lucky if we have 5 years to end this shitty system we all inherited and start from scratch.

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Ed Zitron's avatar Ed Zitron @zitron.bsky.social
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this is a declaration of war against creatives and it should be reported as such

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Nash's avatar Nash @radiodeadair.com
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Motherfuckers don't need to run their goddamn cryptomining rigs all day and we sure as fuck don't need ChatGPT horseshit being ran all day but I don't see anybody crawling up their ass about power usage ...

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Simon McNeil's avatar Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social
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I don't care what your artist's statement says. You don't replace your scriptwriter with a chatbot. You don't replace your editor with a chat bot. You don't replace your storyboard process with a chat bot. You don't use chat bots to make movies. Period.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉's avatar Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social
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The publisher lawsuits against the Internet Archive have been and continue to be a shameful, shameful thing to the detriment of many and the benefit of none.

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Simon McNeil's avatar Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social
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"AI" features include: * Search results that don't work as well as they used to. * Bad advice * Plagiarism

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉's avatar Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social
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Unless they paid everyone whose voice was used to compile these fakes as though they'd provided all that voice work (they didn't), they can stick their "ethical use of AI" up their unwashed assholes

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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto's avatar FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social
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“Fire season” wasn’t a thing in Canada 5 years ago.

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Simon McNeil's avatar Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social
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When climate change changes all your forests to a bunch of tinderboxes that burn up it's, you know, bad.

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Paris Marx's avatar Paris Marx @parismarx.bsky.social
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The AI boom requires massive data centers that consume enormous amounts of water and energy. Tech CEOs have plans for hundreds more hyperscale facilities in the coming years, but activists around the world are fighting back and forcing us to ask who really benefits from Silicon Valley’s future.

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Jessica, Kait's Wife 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈's avatar Jessica, Kait's Wife 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pairofclaws.bsky.social
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For fuck sake, writers, STOP USING AI ART. Stop using it on your book covers, stop using it in your book promos, stop using it to show what your OCs look like, stop using it as "inspiration," STOP USING IT. You want your artform respected, respect other artforms. There is no ethical use. None.

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nixCraft's avatar nixCraft @cyberciti.biz
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Heads up: If you have an Adobe account, for Acrobat or Photoshop or whatever: they've turned on the "we will pillage your work for AI" setting. Go to Adobe account website on desktop -> Account and Security -> Data and Privacy Settings -> Content Analysis. Turn it off.

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Just Some Weirdo 🇵🇸's avatar Just Some Weirdo 🇵🇸 @lonestartallboi.bsky.social
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20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.

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Death and Gravity's avatar Death and Gravity @bushidosquirrel.bsky.social
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Uber: we can't make money if we have to follow the law Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal media: should shoplifters be executed?

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Lincoln Michel's avatar Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social
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Am I supposed to be playing a fiddle for billionaire tech bros running global megacorps because they might have to pay for things they steal?

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Simon McNeil's avatar Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social
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Open AI: Well sure we're criminals. Not being criminals would make our scam too expensive to pull off effectively.

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Canary Media's avatar Canary Media @canarymediainc.bsky.social
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This year is potentially a make-or-break year for policymakers and regulators, utilities and grid operators, and clean-energy and grid-reliability advocates to push major grid reforms through. Here’s an overview of what’s been accomplished — and how much remains to be done: bit.ly/48Ecion

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Internet Archive's avatar Internet Archive @archive.org
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We filed our appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive yesterday. If we are unsuccessful in our fight, libraries won’t be allowed to own and lend digital books, only license them from big media corporations. Why is that bad for YOU? 🧵in comments blog.archive.org/2023/12/15/i...

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Exequiel's avatar Exequiel @candlegrenades.bsky.social
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I don't know why, but "while chamber music played" it's very funny to me. Like mock-cultured people.

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Ian Betteridge's avatar Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com
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No. But unions could.

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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With new advances in technology, computers will be able to do tiresome and unrewarding work like painting, writing, and composing music, leaving human beings free to create shareholder value and protect inventory

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Dr Luke Buckmaster's avatar Dr Luke Buckmaster @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social
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"In the end, the climate crisis is not about pledges, statistics, reports or activists. It’s about human suffering and ruined lives. It’s about death." It's also about the suffering of many animals and creatures whose fates are wrapped up in human activity

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Nick Harkaway's avatar Nick Harkaway @harkaway.bsky.social
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If you were wondering when was the time to get serious about climate, it’s now. Not next year, not tomorrow. Right now.

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Stone Cold Jane Austen 🏳️‍⚧'s avatar Stone Cold Jane Austen 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social
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"Unprecedented heat at the limits of human survival. Antarctic sea ice astonishingly far below its record minimum. Devastating floods, fires and other weather extremes that have been linked to climate change."

This is scary af, y'all. Paywall-free link: wapo.st/3tdpMIL

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Paris Marx's avatar Paris Marx @parismarx.bsky.social
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ok ngl, i did not realize we were at a 108 day streak of hottest days on record. talk about the media getting bored with a story 🙃

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Ian Boudreau's avatar Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social
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Something that's starting to really annoy me is headlines claiming that AI is "doing" things, like denying people healthcare or detaining sex workers at the border. No, people are still doing that, they're just using AI specifically to avoid being blamed for it

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Exequiel's avatar Exequiel @candlegrenades.bsky.social
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Looks good. The film poster reminds me a bit of the 90s video game Flashback.

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The Authors Guild's avatar The Authors Guild @authorsguild.bsky.social
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Companies have scraped millions of copyrighted books/articles and copied them without permission to train generative AI.

We are conducting a survey and would like to hear from you.

Be sure to share it with your writer friends!

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