“I poisoned my own mind.”

[violetmadder@kolektiva.social]

@bonkers @dalias

Hammers and axes are primarily tools, first and foremost. That's what they are usually optimized for. An axe for battle is not built the same way as an axe for wood.

Machine learning is a massively powerful and potentially useful tool, sure-- but "AI" in its current form has been designed and implemented, intentionally, as a weapon. Hammers and axes generally have smooth handles, as a basic safety feature-- they don't dig vampiric spines into the hands that wield them. They don't PRETEND to chop wood or hammer nails while camouflaging jagged leftover pieces that are going to cause future problems. ...They don't read a fucking GitHub issue title and take it as a command to install an agent on your computer that starts doing who knows what other shit-- look, this analogy can't even BEGIN to touch what's really going on here.

Generative "AI" is a signal jammer, flooding the zone with an avalanche of bullshit that's poisoning the wells of information, junking up communications and news with crap, flooding software with unreviewable masses of code stuffed with time bomb errors at best if not malicious who knows what-- while the companies responsible encourage not just the devaluing of labor but de-skilling the whole workforce-- not to mention eroding critical thinking skills in general and trying to replace human interaction with their own social engineering. They're enclosing the digital commons, manipulating hardware prices to push home computing out of reach, stealing everyone's work, all while feeding surveillance infrastructure that would make the Nazis swoon, AND setting up the world economy for a devastating crash the likes of which we haven't seen since 1929.

But sure, let's act like it's just a cute little useful ball peen hammer that we just have to be careful not to bump our own thumbs with. Fucksakes.