2026-05-09 18:54 UTC
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@Tak@gush.taks.garden 2026-05-09 18:56
@aparrish@friend.camp omg YES
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@ben@mastodon.lubar.me 2026-05-09 18:59
@aparrish@friend.camp AI has some good beneficial applications generative AI, not so much (unless you're making some kind of social media markov chain bot for fun)
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@noodlemaz@mstdn.games 2026-05-09 19:02
@aparrish@friend.camp people are so desperate not to be written off as 'a hater' Somewhat ironically I fucking hate that equivocating bs
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@kavana@scholar.social 2026-05-09 19:05
@aparrish@friend.camp "I am a Luddite and I hate AI. Also do look up the Luddites, they literally fought the class war, attacking companies that tried to evade labour laws. We need more Luddites now."
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@giflian@techhub.social 2026-05-09 19:07
@aparrish@friend.camp yes! This! I've been assuming people are afraid of the label or of being seen as an extremist. I've watched at least 2 videos this week where someone has stated this. Though in some cases I think they also assume the technology is good in areas they haven't examined. Like, surely it can't be turtles all the way down, they think.
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@jwz@mastodon.social 2026-05-09 19:10
@aparrish@friend.camp There are two kinds of articles you can write about AI, just like there are two kinds of obituaries you can write about Henry Kissinger. And every morning tech "journalists" wake up and choose the one that is not this: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/
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@brennen@federation.p1k3.com 2026-05-09 19:14
@aparrish@friend.camp "we can just call bad things bad" remains a very unpopular take.
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@mogwai_poet@mastodon.social 2026-05-09 19:25
@aparrish@friend.camp Those essays are targeted at convincing pro-AI folks. The videos targeted at convincing you would start "I'm not an AI booster, I think AI is ruining the world, *but*" and be otherwise identical
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@moanos@gay-pirate-assassins.de 2026-05-09 19:52
@aparrish@friend.camp I sometimes feel this is social pressure kicking in. E.g. at work I really have to be careful to not be the "genAI hater" in order for my opinion & concerns to be taken serious.
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@bcj@friend.camp 2026-05-09 20:02
@aparrish@friend.camp Look, I'm not a hater. I believe that in the future an LLM will be Richard Dawkins' girlfriend
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@CriticalSilence@social.tchncs.de 2026-05-09 20:18
@aparrish@friend.camp to be fair, it is a cult. Often you need to be cautious, what you say and how you say it. Otherwise you'll end up in being excluded or people laugh at you, thinking you're getting insane and don't know what you say. I see this described behavior as a kind of self-defense mechanism and it feels legit.
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@jjcelery@mastodon.ie 2026-05-09 20:28
@aparrish@friend.camp I actually appreciate that kind of hedged reporting, because it has provided me with professional language I can use to reply to questions about LLM use other than making Rowan Atkinson face and telling people to jog on
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@TG_Esq@mastodon.online 2026-05-10 11:36
@aparrish@friend.camp "AI will no doubt have massive transformative effects on things that I don't value and/or don't work in, and we will all* reap significant [unspecified] benefits from this [vaguely expressed] change."