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.
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@neil Let's just wait for AI labs to try and be profitable. All this craze stems from their intent to seduce customers through heavy cost killing. A $200 ChatGPT subscription is said to cost $14000 to OpenAI. Once this ends, the craze will probably end too, and we will finally go back to being creative on our own.
@bdubertret @neil
I'm convinced this AI bubble will burst. There is no way this is sustainable financially, let alone environmentally.
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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.
I have long liked people's own personal blogs and websites - the indie web - but I guess that, until the increasing proliferation of slop, I had not really appreciated just how much I valued human creativity overall.
I know that the overbearing tone at the moment is that we should all be using AI, so I am most grateful to those of you who resist, and continue your own creativity.
@neil You're welcome.
My personal blog site is getting daily #DDoS attacks by greedy #AI scrapers. Residential IPs, generic user agents, ignores robots.txt, I even caught a mercenary web scraper company joining in on the attack as well.
I had to upgrade my VPS plan, implement custom fail2ban rules, and null route entire subnets.
This is getting annoying. I pay for hosting and DNS, refuse to display ads, refuse sponsorship, and this is what I get for it? Stupid #clankers are #APTs ffs...
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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.
I have long liked people's own personal blogs and websites - the indie web - but I guess that, until the increasing proliferation of slop, I had not really appreciated just how much I valued human creativity overall.
I know that the overbearing tone at the moment is that we should all be using AI, so I am most grateful to those of you who resist, and continue your own creativity.
@neil I think Neocities is a great place for the indie web.
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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.
I have long liked people's own personal blogs and websites - the indie web - but I guess that, until the increasing proliferation of slop, I had not really appreciated just how much I valued human creativity overall.
I know that the overbearing tone at the moment is that we should all be using AI, so I am most grateful to those of you who resist, and continue your own creativity.
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 uselessFor 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)
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@neil one other thought that keeps me from contributing text to the web sometimes: “nobody is interested in that” or “everyone knows this already”. Just because i can imagine people who know a thing doesn’t mean my way of writing about something doesn’t contribute in a meaningful way. It’s hard to get this thought out of my head at times.
@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.
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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.
I have long liked people's own personal blogs and websites - the indie web - but I guess that, until the increasing proliferation of slop, I had not really appreciated just how much I valued human creativity overall.
I know that the overbearing tone at the moment is that we should all be using AI, so I am most grateful to those of you who resist, and continue your own creativity.
@neil Thank you for yours! We know you crafted them by yourself.
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@bdubertret @neil
I'm convinced this AI bubble will burst. There is no way this is sustainable financially, let alone environmentally.
Too much money is being invested, it's like the emperor's new clothes.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...
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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.
I have long liked people's own personal blogs and websites - the indie web - but I guess that, until the increasing proliferation of slop, I had not really appreciated just how much I valued human creativity overall.
I know that the overbearing tone at the moment is that we should all be using AI, so I am most grateful to those of you who resist, and continue your own creativity.
@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.
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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.
I have long liked people's own personal blogs and websites - the indie web - but I guess that, until the increasing proliferation of slop, I had not really appreciated just how much I valued human creativity overall.
I know that the overbearing tone at the moment is that we should all be using AI, so I am most grateful to those of you who resist, and continue your own creativity.
@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.
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I can relate to that!
If it helps, much of my personal blogging is written for an audience of one: me.
Either because I am writing myself a reminder of what I did, for future me, or simply because I felt the urge to write something.
I have no blog stats or analytics, and I do not chase numbers or views. I blog because I blog.
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.
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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.
I have long liked people's own personal blogs and websites - the indie web - but I guess that, until the increasing proliferation of slop, I had not really appreciated just how much I valued human creativity overall.
I know that the overbearing tone at the moment is that we should all be using AI, so I am most grateful to those of you who resist, and continue your own creativity.
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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.
I have long liked people's own personal blogs and websites - the indie web - but I guess that, until the increasing proliferation of slop, I had not really appreciated just how much I valued human creativity overall.
I know that the overbearing tone at the moment is that we should all be using AI, so I am most grateful to those of you who resist, and continue your own creativity.
@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
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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.
I have long liked people's own personal blogs and websites - the indie web - but I guess that, until the increasing proliferation of slop, I had not really appreciated just how much I valued human creativity overall.
I know that the overbearing tone at the moment is that we should all be using AI, so I am most grateful to those of you who resist, and continue your own creativity.
@neil ...and codes our own code, right?
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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.
I have long liked people's own personal blogs and websites - the indie web - but I guess that, until the increasing proliferation of slop, I had not really appreciated just how much I valued human creativity overall.
I know that the overbearing tone at the moment is that we should all be using AI, so I am most grateful to those of you who resist, and continue your own creativity.
@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.
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@neil ...and codes our own code, right?
@mewsleah 100%!
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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...
@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 -
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.
I have long liked people's own personal blogs and websites - the indie web - but I guess that, until the increasing proliferation of slop, I had not really appreciated just how much I valued human creativity overall.
I know that the overbearing tone at the moment is that we should all be using AI, so I am most grateful to those of you who resist, and continue your own creativity.
@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
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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.
I have long liked people's own personal blogs and websites - the indie web - but I guess that, until the increasing proliferation of slop, I had not really appreciated just how much I valued human creativity overall.
I know that the overbearing tone at the moment is that we should all be using AI, so I am most grateful to those of you who resist, and continue your own creativity.
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!!!
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@neil sounds like a good way of thinking about it. My only “blog” right now is this mastodon account and that’s probably enough for me for now. I don’t want the mental load of “oh do i toot about this or write a post?” or “ah damn, i haven’t written anything in a long time”. It’s however good to see that some people seem to enjoy my toots here, especially my very low-key “travel blog” about my cycling…
Would you consider setting up a proper blog outside of mastodon? I would sub to your so low-key travel cycling blog.
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