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[Northwest Cee @CeeHawk]

Aside from, you know, killing the planet, you know why I hate AI flyers? They have so much filler disguised as information.

Because the people making them have no background in marketing or design! I HATE IT.

[adrienne @barelytolerabIe]

Imagine blowing 30 years of search engine dominance—so much so that your website became a verb—only to kill your search engine in favor of a inferior product only tech bros and their sycophants like.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

It’s wild how Meta - a company going all-in on AI - somehow missed the memo on how AI can generate images and videos that renders “take a selfie of yourself” verifications utterly useless

So now Instagram accounts hacked at scale. 2FA also fully bypassed - by Meta’s own design

[DigitalCharityLab @DigiCharityLab]

Just saw a well-known publication listing a job for a 'part time' graphic designer - it's actually 6 days a week, 46 hours, salary of just €28k 😱

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

As expected, not one person brought up the huge theft of creative work that most generative AI models are based on.

Not only that, but they used AI video - presumably generated by a model based on theft.

A huge lack of balance, and a terrible missed opportunity to educate the public about the exploitative nature of generative AI, which I hope people complain about.

[DigitalCharityLab @DigiCharityLab]

@MailerLite Thanks so much!

[DigitalCharityLab @DigiCharityLab]

@MailerLite Hi there - I'm looking at migrating to Mailerlite - our org is a small social enterprise, not-for-profit - would you have any onboarding discounts or offers available please? We're at the 'Growing Business' plan level. Thanks so much!

[DigitalCharityLab @DigiCharityLab]

Just shut down our Mailchimp account after years of use - just too expensive and the UX gets worse all the time. Their cancellation policy is absolute 💩 - you can only downgrade to a free a/c once, no refund on unused time. Just such a crappy way to treat customers.

[Amanda Fortini @amandafortini]

Just saw this on Substack. The metaphor is spot on.

[DigitalCharityLab @DigiCharityLab]

@MailerLite That's amazing, thank you so much! We already have a free plan set up and have configured it - how do we apply the non profit discount to the existing account please?

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly.

https://t.co/xUhZvtpwah

[DigitalCharityLab @DigiCharityLab]

Very cute and clever social content from @ABCbirds https://t.co/4Ll0zDr0B8

[Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darren_cullen]

On the tube

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

terrible. 20 yrs ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely ppl will create free, public info

[Velodus✨ @velodus]

Just throwing it out there that the lane is wiiiiiiiiide open for a tech company to get insanely rich by just replicating the 2010 version of big websites like Google while explicitly stating that they hate AI.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

I have heard people claim that the reaction people are having against AI is the same reaction people had when the internet started to be introduced. And as someone who was there at the time, I can tell you NO IT FUCKING WASN'T.

[Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD @araujohistorian]

Like many of you, I am disgusted with people using AI to write any kind of text, but I am even more annoyed to see educated people, with doctoral degrees, well-paid tenured faculty positions, who allegedly have two brain cells, using AI to created ugly, pathetic visual images.

[Tricia Dearborn @TriciaDearborn]

A list of resources for people who want to resist the uncritical adoption of AI. I've only read the first, but it's a corker. Like getting shaken by the shoulders, smacked around the chops & given a lifesaving dose of the elixir of truth at the same time
https://t.co/gDP0SlYuta

[Oliver Jia (オリバー・ジア) @OliverJia1014]

One of biggest problems with Gen AI is the extreme Dunning-Kruger effect it gives to very mediocre people who have no idea what creativity is.

AI slop books are flooding Amazon and further diluting the quality of everything. No, running a prompt doesn’t make you a writer.