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So, today I was called a "Luddite" because I don't like AI.

Call me what you want, but when it comes to folks losing their jobs, data centers sucking up our water and causing higher energy bills for people already struggling, LLMs being trained on stolen data, and so many other ethical issues, I won't budge or back down on how I feel.

I will proudly accept the Luddite label. I've been around for nearly 60 years and have had a pretty shitty go of it the past 5 or so years. You can't hurt my feelings.

#noai #fuckai

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175d

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116371937587992264

I think the way I would put it is:

1) The point of the AI project is ideological; the goal is to reshape industries such that we are dependent on AI companies' products, and to destroy free and open knowledge such that we are dependent on these products for thought and reasoning. We see an injection of AI into cybersecurity, while simultaneously drawing money and resources away from (boring) efforts that would actually broadly improve cybersecurity.¹ We see an injection of AI into knowledge acquisition, while simultaneously polluting the landscape of the internet as a useful source of knowledge. Both are in service of the same ideological project, and working towards the same goal.

2) The touted usefulness of AI for programming and cybersecurity is directly funding the project to expand it everywhere else, where it is causing massive harms to civil society, individuals' mental health, and the information landscape. You or your company paying for these products is keeping investment money flowing and extending the runway, for AI companies to reach that point of "indispensability". There is no divorcing your cool shiny toy from the creation of AI deepfakes that destroy democracy, or the AI psychosis that destroys lives. This is because the AI companies are pursuing an ideological project that ultimately has nothing to do with improving people's work or their lives; the leaders of these companies have loudly and publicly said that very clearly. You are laundering the reputation of these companies and keeping them alive, when the only moral option is to destroy them.

I've said this elsewhere, but: Maybe you, who are reading this, is offended by this framing, because you use and enjoy the AI tools. But it's also likely that you, and many other technologists, take moral abdication almost as a point of pride, where the only thing that matters is "capability". In that case, I don't understand the defensive response. Why are you uncomfortable being described as the thing you're bragging to be?

¹ The stark contrast: The breathless and brainless promotional posts about Glasswing came into my feed at the same time as the posts about the final gutting of CISA. https://www.securityweek.com/white-house-seeks-to-slash-cisa-funding-by-707-million/

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113d

They just OK’d an AI data center in my city, which I never thought would happen. Creates zero jobs. Consumes tons of water. And for what? So the bots can play on the internet all day and take jobs and water?

#AI Agents Now Generate More Web Traffic Than Humans - CNET https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/its-official-agentic-bots-surf-the-web-more-than-real-people-do/

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50d

Still haven't gotten around to an about page for this to properly explain it but…

If anyone finds themselves in need of a "shortlist" of examples of the downsides of AI, my collection is up to 369 entries:

https://www.isaigoodyet.com/

#FuckAI #NoAI #PeopleFirst

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48d

I (@grimmy) am going to state this as clearly as possible here in the hopes it'll propagate quickly.

#Pidgin, and the other projects we maintain alongside it, have never and will never knowingly accept AI-assisted anything.

We proudly respect all licenses, #OpenSource and proprietary, and will not taint our license with whatever you think AI-generated code is licensed under.

A more formal document is now in the works in the hopes that our precious volunteer time will be spared.

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21d

AI in FOSS projects is not just an annoyance. It is a campaign. Deliberate, specific and coordinated.

The goal is simple: convert, collect and capture. Those who trust AI to run their security will eventually depend on it. And Big Tech holds all of the cards. The price to keep up will keep rising, and when projects can't afford to keep up, the winners get free operating systems and programs to take control of, and the end users lose. Less power. Less freedom. And if AI Boosters have their way, users all eat from the same trough, one token at a time.

Ask yourself: If you didn't like computers in the 1980's and 1990's, you could do without. Then the Internet came along, and you embraced it. Not because you had to, but because you can. Checks didn't go away. Music is still available on CDs. Movies still have theaters to play in. So why when it comes to AI that nobody has a choice?

Consider the following:
https://www.404media.co/vibe-coding-is-killing-open-source-software-researchers-argue/
https://www.osnews.com/story/144547/the-great-license-washing-has-begun/
https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/03/06/chardet-dispute-shows-how-ai-will-kill-software-licensing/4118822

They aren't "just asking questions" anymore.

This is a siege.

#fuckAI #breaktheloom #fightthefuture

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15d

I was watching the CBS News interview with Coxon, and I can’t believe the amount of bullshit coming out of this guy’s mouth. When asked how, practically, the AI will proceed to kill us all, the nutshell of his response was: “It will be, like, something out of science fiction, that only people who aren’t tech-savvy can fully grasp.”

Right, because tech-savvy people can see right through your nonsense.

I can’t comprehend how people can take him seriously.

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36d

WTF is this bullshit? Everyone *does* have access to creativity. It's called a fucking imagination.

The Observer

In defence of Al slop: we should embrace open access to creativity, not condemn it

Look past the Donald Trump superhero memes and the new software gives us the chance to democratise creative production. No wonder art's cultural gatekeepers are worried

Jack Riley

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69d

Man, the recent Humble Indie Bundles have been contaminated with books about LLMs...

I have wanted to get some books to support good causes, couldn't because I didn't want buy bundles with LLM trash in them.

If only there were a way to remove books from bundles...As I only want the books that support development practices that actively support direct human involvement and passing on those practices to the next generation.

#HumbleBundle #Books #FuckAI

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13d

If AI hate is a spectrum, that means there's one person on fedi who HATES AI more than everyone else.

I probably follow them too

#FuckAI #NeverSlop

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15d

Release Day thread!
AND a BookSprout offer!

Nice, thick eBook to fill your Fall with Dark Fairytales - all by 6 (six) indie authors of many types! 🍁

Buy your copy now and support human work, creativity, and love for stories that may turn a bit...grim.

Buy here:
https://books2read.com/u/bw6WJ9

#Fantasy #Bookstodon #Books #Book #Fairytale #GrimDark #Releaseday #Release #Bookrelease #bookwyrm #indie #Indieauthor #trans #nonbinary #LGBTQAI #author #BookSprout #NoAI #fuckAI #art

An adverticement picture made by me (hiisikoloart/Mara Reboi) for book named: Once Upon a Fairytale: A collection of original fairytales. Background is a bed of moss (a hint which will be clear if you read my story in the book) lit by golden specks of light. The texts around the eBook cover shown in a phone says, "A Collection of Original Fairytales - OUT NOW! Dark Fantasy Stories from Human Authors, NO AI." The cover is photoedited (NO AI) by artist: D'arte Oriel, and shows a dark forest, thorns around the edges of the cover, and a thorny, red rose at the middle. Golden filigrees frame the cover among smaller roses, and magic particles. The subtitle "a collection of original fairytales" reads at the top" while the main title reads at the bottom on bold, golden font "Once Upon a Fairytale". Note: By buying this book you support human work - each story was written by a human author, edited by human(s), formatted by human(s), and the cover was also made by a human. All authors and the cover artist (who is not me) are against use of AI in any part of the creative work.

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32d

I will never understand how the project that respected licenses and trademarks so much that they forked the entire #Mozilla stack to comply ever decided that #AI usage could ever be considered ethical.

I have many machines that are somehow related to @pidgin's development and the vast majority of them run #debian. To keep #AI out of #Pidgin, I now I need to find a new distribution. This is yet another example of me having to pay into the #AI time deficit. 🙄

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian%E2%80%93Mozilla_trademark_dispute

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28d

It'd be nice to go just one day without a "government adviser on x policy gets job in same industry" headline, but obviously that's crazy dreamer talk on this fucked up timeline.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/02/architect-of-uks-ai-strategy-joins-anthropic

#UKPolitics #FuckAI #AllAboardTheGravyTrain

architect-of-uks-ai-strategy-joins-anthropic

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25d

The Sloppening...

If anyone else want to confess, now's a good time as any... -_-

via @internetarchive
https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/117219501245722161

via @eff
https://mastodon.social/@eff/117215319335459732

Debian
https://ioc.exchange/@Radio_Azureus/117206011645732732

#FuckAI #neverslop

Photo of printed out "One FREE Anti-slop Kitto coupon" by pmjv

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21d

Sharing a great blog post about strict, zero tolerance, anti-AI policies, as well as my extended thoughts on it.

Now, I know what you may think: "Oh look, another blog post about AI and LLMs... how boring." I know, I know. Just open the Bear Blog discovery feed and take your pick. But first off, this is a Makko site, therefore: bnnuy (by one of the makers of Makko!). And second, this a take I hadn't really seen before and it might be my favorite take on the topic.

So please, go read it.

my philosophy on banning AI in projects

– a post by @alexia

What I love is that, in this post, she makes a call for a more people centric internet and codebase management. One where connection between people is valued above all else. That the fact that the knowledge gets shared from one person, to another, is special and should be treated as a precious thing. And how even the most of ethical of large language model would still get in the way of that.

So many projects and so much of the world would be better with this approach in mind, both now, and before the rise of LLMs. In fact, I'd say that it's because this approach wasn't the most common one that we ended up with this rise all together.

So much of the open source world, notably, has fostered a community that is downright hostile to pretty much anybody, that people would rather robots to do the work than contribute themselves. Robots don't care when they're being abused. They don't tire. They don't burn out. They don't cry.

Newcomers get ridiculed and shunned for their mistakes, constantly raising the bar of entry and therefore, the weight put on the active contributors who get burnt out until they themselves snap, and get bullied out of the codebase. The cycle continues, on and on until who can be surprised when all we have left are robots to do the work because we couldn't be bothered to show some understanding toward each other?

We value productivity over passion. In this sense, LLMs were inevitable. They're the logical conclusion of this apathy.

The promise of LLMs is to "make you better", to "enhance you", it's about "fixing yourself" to "compete," to better "fit in" and "integrate" yourself. Everybody has to be amazing at everything. You can be a one coder army with an LLM. You can do everything, on your own, you see? Within projects, this plays on our fear to ask for help and gives us a workaround, instead of trying to heal the source said fear. It's hyper-individualism disguised as self-reliance.

But it doesn't have to be this way. Things can be different. It's a choice we have to make. It always was. You don't know something? One of us can teach you. You can't do this? Someone else can. Knowledge is meant to be shared, disabilities are to be accommodated.

We need more communities and spaces in which people feel comfortable speaking up and asking what they would call "dumb questions".

...did I tell you I really liked this blog post?

#FuckAI #AI #LLMs

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2d

Oh no, the AI Bros are calling our human stuff. HUMAN SLOP! oh no, what ever shall we do? LMAO! How will we ever recover from being called, HUMAN SLOP? Oh no! The horror! I've never seen such a bunch of desperate crowd before. Yet again, showing they can't leave us the fuck alone. BTW, FYI, here is a giant website of things that don't use AI slop in their code https://noailist.org/ #FuckAI #NoAI

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1d

Are there any #GNU/Linux distributions that have strong #anti-gen-AI policies?

I'd love to be able to run something that I could trust would not put #slopware in it's repositories.

I'm fine using outdated versions of my favorite software, if it means I can hold off the #LLM wave.

Right now I have to double-guess every new software release and it's a burden.

There have to be some more #people who care about #EthicalComputing.

Maybe we can fork #Linux too.

#StopSlop #NoAI #StopAI #FuckAI

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