Thank you to each of you who writes your own toots, hand crafts your own blog posts and stories, draws and paints your own art, and makes your own music.

[alkatraz_200@mastodon.social]

@neil I think Neocities is a great place for the indie web.

[lobster@ieji.de]

@neil

Dear Friends of the indie, AI slop free web,

As we may know:

1) With no responsibility, comes big corp spidering CEO's
2) There is no business like sham/shame business
3) Our Actual Intelligence (AI) is real, changes and makes guesses - not money for the useless

For example try having a cup of tea with an AI companion. You would be better off with a dummy. (I knew I had a use)

🫖

[annehargreaves@ioc.exchange]

@nerdinand @neil I find it helpful to think of "putting an idea out there". Most likely nobody will take any notice of it, but there's nothing lost, it's only a tiny bit of data. All these ideas go to make up the fedi.

[annehargreaves@ioc.exchange]

@neil Thank you for yours! We know you crafted them by yourself.

[bdubertret@mamot.fr]

@Sarahw

Of course it will bust. There's no possible way for it to be profitable. Let's not talk about environmental and labour impact. The goal of its creators is getting rid of human workers, which always complain and are too costly in their eyes. But they miss where value is from : human workers. LLMs try to mimic human produced value, but are deemed to fail. The best they can do is look like what they were trained with. Which is often stolen without consent by AI labs, btw...

@neil

[retrosponge@kind.social]

@neil In November I will be starting my 13th year of reviewing Christmas movies. (Link in bio).

It’s a free blog on Wordpress and every year they push more and more to make me use AI on there but it will be a cold day in hell before I do so.

They’ll pry my keyboard from my cold dead hand.

[keremgoart@mstdn.social]

@neil I'll resist forever. Even though I appear to be easygoing IRL I have a stubborn side that most people don't know about. I thoroughly and annoyingly enjoy going the complete opposite way and refuse joining the flock.

[matt_ellery@mastodon.social]

@neil
@nerdinand

Yes, this is exactly my view too.

If I publish something and no-one else reads it, I'm still happy because I wrote it for me.

If someone reads it, I'm thrilled.

If someone reads it and gets some value out of it, all the better.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@neil

[ethical_shopper@mastodon.social]

@neil Getting laid off from my freelance copywriting gig because of AI slop actually inspired me to start my blog! Basically running my own one-man backlash, and I know I'm far from being the only one

[mewsleah@meow.social]

@neil ...and codes our own code, right?

[nerdinand@swiss.social]

@phlash @neil Interestingly i don’t have that problem when creating the curriculum for the programming classes I teach or when sharing my knowledge in courses I give at work. Because there I know that i’m the expert and people want to learn from me.

[marco@ruhr.social]

@neil The beautiful thing of having a personal blog is, that I don’t have to drive up site visitors or that I don’t have to constantly increase my output. I simply write about what I want, if nobody wants to read it that’s fine, if somebody finds it useful, that‘s brilliant. But there is no pressure to „optimize“ using AI.

[neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk]

@mewsleah 100%!

[urlyman@mastodon.social]

@bdubertret
I fear that as long as it has tremendous utility in coercion and state violence, and the states that gleefully wield it have not yet suffered an unrecoverable loss of coherence, they will financialise its runway at the expense of everything else

https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/117124417323751599

@Sarahw @neil

[bdf2121cc3334b35b6ecda66e471@mastodon.social]

@neil it's no "resistance" for me, asking an AI to code, create music or whatever sounds like asking a machine to drink beer for me while I handle the payment processing

[dimsumpimp@mastodon.social]

@neil

I started using the internet in 1997 when i was 7 years old. Back then it was all about the blogrings. I followed so many bloggers and made many internet friends, whom i got to meet in real life because of blogs.

I personally distain AI. I love what the fediverse is doing and am now a Fedi-Knight!

The dead internet is no theory and we gotta bring back rss!

Newsboat on Linux FTW!!!

[dimsumpimp@mastodon.social]

@nerdinand @neil

Would you consider setting up a proper blog outside of mastodon? I would sub to your so low-key travel cycling blog.