Somewhat alarmed that the LLM detritus seems to no longer have a toggle to be disabled in the iOS 27 and macOS betas.
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So easy to get a disabling dose of lead poisoning from a single exposure. Working around lead acid batteries and forklifts, breathing any of that white dust. Not washing hands before eating a candy bar with that sweet white lead oxide powder on the fingers. Working in plastics production, heat or fire resistant plastics almost always have lead, antimony, or both. Electrical wire, PVC, probably has it, from experience as someone who maintained the extruders that made it. I know why they use it, as yellowed brittle plastics don't have it. Lead makes people go absolute batshit crazy in about two months. AI seems to have that ability too.
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Protesting LLMs by refusing to use any software that includes them feels like attempting to protest the introduction of tetraethyl lead into gasoline by refusing to breathe until everyone stops putting it in their cars. So I am drawing my personal moral lines in such a way that I will probably accept this.
But please don't mistake this for excitement about huffing a bunch of vaporized lead.
@glyph I'll choose on a case by case basis with a default of no.
This isn't just about my ethics and morals, projects using #LLM tools are making political, moral, ethical and environmental statements about those running them and the community of those involved as contributors and users.
Another important reason for me is security. I by default expect more problems because of a lower level of care, understanding and attention to detail, including security.
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One of the best mentors I worked with started repairing the forklift battery trays and welding new slides in the lifts. The fumes from vaporizing lead into the welds did not impact structural integrity of the steel, but the body absorbs lead like calcium. The nervous system seems to struggle with lead as a calcium replacement. He made it one month before his mental facilities were no longer compatible with employment or the legal system. He passed away a year later. AI seems to be that same road in a way, taking the lives of motivated people and turning their minds into slop.
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@glyph i think government regulation could also work here, yeah
though it would have to be done in a way where anyone could make their own from scratch (as in, devices should not be locked down, remote attestation tech should be banned, etc)
also abolish IP law and put software freedom into law (as in, if you distribute software, you must make sure someone else can build it themselves, modify it and run it with the same features even if modified)
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@sharpcheddargoblin get ready, I guess
. It would be an impractical amount of effort for me to migrate, but, there's also the question of what to migrate *to*. The people who maintain the only other even *vaguely* feasible phone operating system are the ones that Apple is buying their new, "better" LLMs _from_@glyph yeah it’s dire. De-Googled Android might remain viable for a while but Google could move to cripple that entirely any time.
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Protesting LLMs by refusing to use any software that includes them feels like attempting to protest the introduction of tetraethyl lead into gasoline by refusing to breathe until everyone stops putting it in their cars. So I am drawing my personal moral lines in such a way that I will probably accept this.
But please don't mistake this for excitement about huffing a bunch of vaporized lead.
@glyph For software that I used since pre-LLM times I continue being a user only if they offer a switch to disable LLM functions or alternatively if I can ignore the LLM functions. This is the sad category where I'm putting GitHub, Google Apps and many others.
But for new software I have never used before, the existence of LLM functionality is a deal breaker.
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@josh0 thanks, that is hopeful! please send feedback that this is a desirable state and they should expose it
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@SolTwoOne @glyph ok, but Image Playground is a discrete app. Just don’t use it, and it has no impact on you.
Some of the features that are now labeled as ‘Apple Intelligence’ have been around since before LLMs were the next big thing.
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Somewhat alarmed that the LLM detritus seems to no longer have a toggle to be disabled in the iOS 27 and macOS betas. I hope, but do not expect, that it will come back in the final releases.
If I want to still be able to set a timer when I'm cooking with my voice, I probably need to accept a bunch of nonconsensual slop ("writing tools") being shoved in my face in every app.
Apple shipped a toggle for "do you want AI slop in your face" and then removed it before release. The opt-out existing at all was probably an accident.
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Apple shipped a toggle for "do you want AI slop in your face" and then removed it before release. The opt-out existing at all was probably an accident.
@prometheus that is not an accurate description of what happened? the “apple intelligence” toggle has been present in many releases thus far. it appears to be missing from current betas, but it’s not clear if that is to encourage beta users to test this functionality or because it’s actually going away
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Protesting LLMs by refusing to use any software that includes them feels like attempting to protest the introduction of tetraethyl lead into gasoline by refusing to breathe until everyone stops putting it in their cars. So I am drawing my personal moral lines in such a way that I will probably accept this.
But please don't mistake this for excitement about huffing a bunch of vaporized lead.
@glyph That is…such an apt metaphor
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Don't laugh, but I would rather work around gamma radiation or hazmat again than have to work with AI 🫠
@dianea @glyph I would only laugh if I thought you were joking.
This seems reasonable to me. Hazmat has a validated set of safety practices that you can engage in, legislative support for ensuring they are followed, and a well-socialized understanding of their necessity. AI has “it’s probably fine, it’s just words on a computer, how could it even hurt you, get back to work”.
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Don't laugh, but I would rather work around gamma radiation or hazmat again than have to work with AI 🫠
@dianea There is a black fungus at Chernobyl that has gamma-photosynthesis, to feed on gamma radiation...
So life can survive deadliest places on earth, meanwhile AI slop just destroys everything for nothing.
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@kfdm @dianea externalities are the whole value proposition with AI though https://blog.glyph.im/2026/06/adversarial-communication.html
@kfdm @dianea and the vendors have basically admitted it directly https://www.salon.com/2024/01/09/impossible-openai-admits-chatgpt-cant-exist-without-pinching-copyrighted-work/
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@kfdm @dianea externalities are the whole value proposition with AI though https://blog.glyph.im/2026/06/adversarial-communication.html
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