Dear Fedi friends,

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@onepict @WeirdWriter thank you for the great recommendation!

[blainsmith@fosstodon.org]

@jwildeboer Sounding like we need to make this happen somehow now haha

@_elena @jan

[michelpatrice@jasette.facil.services]

@_elena

I came across a cool humoristic method of resistance, see the For Ai Only section :
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1124/new-rss-feeds-landing

(Si tu ne connais pas David Revoy, son travail est intéressant.)

[fmarini@mastodon.social]

@jwildeboer @_elena @jan just read a wonderful piece on literature and LLMs, which has a part that is eerily similar to your idea

I think you might like it ️

https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-colonization-of-confidence/

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@fmarini Yes, I read (and shared) that too the day it was published @_elena @jan

[standard_phil@infosec.exchange]

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante Anil Dash @anildash belongs on your list, I think.

[707kat@mastodon.art]

@onepunchmango I'm aware of what the EFF do. I'm not saying they don't do a lot of good. However, they are not against LLMs and up until recently they were positive about its usage. Even though the technology inherently relies on voiding people's privacy. For the longest time they cheered on it as a way to beat Copyright and boost free information, ignoring people who tried to explain why it would be damaging.

Try taking a look at how this page has changed this month:
https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/effs-policy-llm-assisted-contributions-our-open-source-projects

[anildash@me.dm]

@Standard_Phil @_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante I think they’re all real researchers, I’m just a commentator here.

[esi@merveilles.town]

@_elena You might want to check out @rysiek and his blog at https://rys.io/en/index.html

[eivind@mastodon.fjerland.no]

@_elena I certainly don't expect to be on such a list, but I sympahtise, and I am of course strongly opposed to LLMs. I think you got good suggestions already, so I'll just chime in to say I agree.

[onepict@chaos.social]

@_elena We also have projects that are explicitly not accepting AI like @gentoo .

We also have folk like @xgranade who is working on a fork of calibre. Which I am very grateful for.

[fasterandworse@hci.social]

@_elena I recommend @zzt @davidgerard @froztbyte @kimcrawley / @crowgirl

[glamcode@openbiblio.social]

@_elena I have a “Critical AI reading list” on Mastodon that contains among others and among the ones you listed:

- @baldur
- @RainerMuehlhoff
- @Weizenbaum_Institut
- @olivia
- @quinta
- @lapcatsoftware
- @dylan

[brib@disabled.social]

@_elena I'm noisy enough about it to release a slopfree index and blog about it a bit, although I try (only semi-successfully) to balance out my feed with stuff that isn't AI

[lapcatsoftware@mastodon.social]

@glamcode @_elena Don’t read me! I don’t even pretend to be an expert. I just rant sometimes.

[kimcrawley@zeroes.ca]

@_elena @davidgerard ️

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@esi @_elena henlo

I also write critically about tech, including "AI", for Polish media, specifically OKO.press:
https://oko.press/autor/michal-rysiek-wozniak

Some relevant examples:
https://oko.press/sztuczna-inteligencja-prace-nam-zabiera-czy-to-tylko-bajera
https://oko.press/chinski-deepseek-upuscil-powietrza-z-amerykanskiej-banki-ai-co-teraz
https://oko.press/ai-nie-rozwiaze-kryzysu-klimatycznego

[glamcode@openbiblio.social]

@lapcatsoftware @_elena Ranting counts as „publicly resisting“

[hikingdude@mastodon.social]

@_elena
That's difficult.
Aislop and hype are one side, there are good uses for it as well. So, just blaming LLMs feels like blaming a knife for murder.

[dataknightmare@mastodon.xyz]

@_elena
Outside of academia, yours truly was likely one of the first ones.