This is huge. Historic. Extremely important juncture for the BDS and boycott movement, and for the movement against apartheid generally. Congrats to all involved.
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@majamediaco so nice to find something that advises specificity and dedication in a specific and dedicated way - a rarity these days. a lovely and useful read x
@xdncolonthree bless Uorigin :')
completely eradicated any trace of AI from goofle using firefox both desktop and android. but there are step-by-step guides for all browsers and operating systems.
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It gets worse when you find out she said this to arts and humanities graduates who are about to enter the workspace while it's facing higher rates of unemployment due to corporate greed using AI to replace them.
Incredibly insensitive and out of touch as a graduation speech.
imagine how it feels to try to explain to someone that doesn’t give one iota of a fuck about film how actually monumental it is to actually fully shoot someone going up a staircase!!!
cinema is not simply an art form, it is a mechanical-industrial process powered by laborers. The medium cannot be divorced from the labor of the millions of human beings that have delivered it into the world. There is no cinema divorced from industrial labor anywhere on earth
i think more redemption arcs should present a true challenge as in "what if your loved ones don't forgive you, would you still want to change?", i feel so much male character redemption is carried not by their actions but by women priorizing love over themselves.
Really dire stuff. We are hurtling towards a world where many human beings stop talking to each other.
Humans consistently choose convenient, low-friction, low-effort experiences, when faced with choices in how to expend our time and effort and resources. What’s easier? Navigating a relationship with another person with their own needs and perspectives? Or an AI designed to give you exactly what you want, on demand? Human reciprocity is often hard; AI is easy. Many, many people will choose AI over human interaction, more and more often, as it gets better at simulating the things we want from human interaction. Because it will provide those things without friction, or pushback, and it’ll give it to us immediately.
No amount of saying “AI is slop, AI isn’t intelligent, AI isn’t conscious!” will prevent this. You will not be able to build a social stigma strong enough to stop this! Especially because stigma only works when people *want* your approval—or at least to avoid your opprobrium—*which itself depends on them caring about their social relations to other human beings!
This is the heart of it! Taboo, disdain, ostracism, social pressure—these things all hinge on people *wanting to avoid the disapproval of a human community to which they belong*, but AI offers *exit from human community altogether*. You can’t use tools of behavioral incentives that *depend on community membership* to *stop people from leaving a community*! Ostracism can’t prevent people from self-ostracizing! That should be very, very obvious!
The only solution to prevent this requires some kind of collective action, presumably mediated through the state. That’s it. That’s the only choice if this alarms you.
This article gets at one of the really troubling aspects of generative AI: the way it’s driving a breakdown in trust. Whether it’s writing or images, it’s becoming harder to trust the things you see and the people around you. It puts everyone on edge and on the defensive.