Nearly six weeks later, and the question of whether "AI" generated code in tmux -- not tool-assisted bug finding, not refactoring, actual LLM-generated slop with questionable license(1) -- that was consequently merged into OpenBSD base is considered acceptable by the lead devs. Despite Theo de Raadt's concrete stance against any code of questionable license origin polluting the project -- and the tmux merge was indeed questionable -- it seems this is being swept under the rug. This makes me extremely uncomfortable; it's like seeing a fox in the henhouse but the farmers are all looking the other way and no one can convince them to admit they can see it and root it out.

I really don't know what to do being just a user; I feel like even if I tried to chime in on the mailing list I would just be ignored like the others trying to raise the alarm. I hope, as they do, that this is being discussed internally, away from the public list, and that a positive outcome is near. Maybe they are waiting for the 7.9 release before setting anything in stone.

Or maybe the "AI" disease has infected one of the last pure operating system projects we have left and there's no going back.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=177513420401322&w=2

(1) As in, it could have been lifted from any GPL'd or otherwise encumbered code and there's no way to know for sure since LLMs are plagiarism machines

#OpenBSD #vibecoding #NOAI #stoptheslop

@pronoia
Vous allez arrêter vos enfantillages ?
Quand on fait la même bêtise, ça provoque le même résultat. La photo de l'article est de faible qualité mais authentique. Pas IA générée.

Aussi, vous publiez en français dans un message indiqué en anglais : les gens ayant besoin de traduction et les personnes utilisant des lecteurs d'écran ne vous disent pas merci.

C'est quand même dommage qu'un travail globalement d'aussi grande qualité soit entaché d'erreurs aussi stupides.

#noAI #a11y

don't mind me, just reposting this thing from a few months ago since it seems to be finally actually happening

#AI #NoAI #GenAI #AntiAI

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A crudely drawn ninja figure pokes a bubble labeled "AI" with a stick. They are saying "c'mon, do a burst" to it.

@wikipedia_fr
L'image que vous partagez est modifiée par IA. C'est déjà nul (doit-on vous le rappeler ?), mais en plus vous ne le signalez même pas.
#pasBien #noAI #remboursez

I dragged myself away from games at the club for a bit to draw this playful #mermaid. I used VanDiemen's ink Great Ice Lake, I think it is, which has a silver shimmer. The darker blue is Azure Kingfisher. And a little black for the fish. I used one of @rdm 's 3d printed pens with a Schmidt nib with the Lake, and then the Lamy Demo with the Azure Kingfisher, and the Rotring Art Pen with whatever black it was I put in it ages ago.

#MerMay2026 #MerMay #DrawingWithoutANet #NoAI #FountainPen #FountainPenInk

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A mermaid is chasing a small fish through tall seagrass. Her hair drifts upwards. Pen and ink, blue shimmery.

La loi sur l’IA va être « simplifiée », et ce n’est pas une bonne nouvelle pour les consommateurs européens 😱

Première à légiférer, première à reculer ? 😕

L’AI Act, la législation phare de l’Union européenne sur l’intelligence artificielle, va être « simplifiée » : un accord politique a été trouvé à Bruxelles ce jeudi 7 mai, sur fond de pression de Donald Trump qui veut que l’Europe abandonne ses lois sur le numérique. Le texte est autant critiqué par les lobbys américains de la tech, qui estiment qu’il ne va pas assez loin, que par les associations de défense des consommateurs, qui déplorent un regrettable recul.

#NoTrump #NoAI #BanAI #NoBigTechAI #Privacy #RegainPrivacy #Privacy #RegainPrivacy #Opensource #Data #Security #LSDM

Thank you the European Union 😤
@EUCommission

https://www.lsdm.live/2026/05/09/la-loi-sur-lia-va-etre-simplifiee-et-ce-nest-pas-une-bonne-nouvelle-pour-les-consommateurs-europeens/

I’d quite like to pay someone to make me a cartoon profile picture of me for here and my site/blog. #NoAi

World Donkey Day 💜

#art #mastoart #fediart #animals #tarot #nature #digitalArt #noai #krita #donkey #landscape #clouds

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A tired donkey is standing in water up to its knees. Having the burden of carrying lots of heavy wood. Surrounded by nature (mountains, rocks and grass) Card 32. https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Ten-of-Wands-777343276

After a busy day, and incidentally GMing a game where the PC's are all merfolk except for one water elemental, I had a little time to bring out the Kakimori dip pen once more and do a quick brush like sketch of this mermaid touching the surface and causing ripples.

I don't know if it's the ink - Van Diemen's Ink 9 Lives, but it didn't seem to flow as smoothly as previous inks. Or maybe the Kakimori is needing a bit of a scrub.

Anyway, I think she looks elegant for just a sketch.

#MerMay #MerMay2026 #NoAI #DipPen #DrawingWithoutANet #Ink #Mermaid

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Viewed from above a silvery green mermaid causes ripples as she stretches her hand to touch the surface.

MerMay the 7th.

I've had a day not conducive to drawing but fired this off this evening.
It's drawn with a Lamy Demonstrator gleefully full of Van Diemen's ink of Azure Kingfisher,
one of my favourite with its sparkle and sheen.

#MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #FountainPen #FountainPenInk #NoAI

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Hairless smiling Merperson with fin like arms, tail up, and myriads of Jewell like scales, except for face and chest and the inner arms. Mermay the 7th Alicia 'leece' Smith and the ink is Azure Kingfisher, which has gold flecks and a purple sheen.

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Hairless smiling Merperson with fin like arms, tail up, and myriads of Jewell like scales, except for face and chest and the inner arms. Mermay the 7th Alicia 'leece' Smith and the ink is Azure Kingfisher, which has gold flecks and a purple sheen. The sheen is very evident here, as the image is being tilted into the light.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@FabMusacchio/116529625252630872

This! This is image processing 😍🥰! #NoAI

If you love art and you’re around Saskatoon, then check out Unprompted on May 9!

A group of #Saskatchewan artists are putting together a show, so titled because they want to celebrate unprompted human creativity.

It’s a free event, but you need to RSVP here: https://hellofrankly.co/unprompted/

Full disclosure, my partner @AudraBalionArt is one of the featured artists and she is awesome.

#saskatoon #yxe #art #artists #NoAI #indieart

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Poster for Unprompted Print Showcase on May 9. Features a bubbly UN with smiley faces.

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Poster for Unprompted Print Show on May 9, highlighting the artists in attendance. Terri Lemire • Daniel Syrnick • Jane McWhirter • Alana Moore Cameron Melville • Don Sparrow • Miranda Van Young Gabrielle Rose • Audra Balion • Marc Rousseau • Kelsey Kalyn Jesse Sawitsky • Monique Poisson-Fast • Yuji Lee • Mal Cloke Isaac Thomas • Jon Vaughn • Meagan Jackson • Scott Gowen Peter Murphy • Chris Morin • Blair Colwell • Cadanse Herie Andrea Engele • Rachael Meckling • Reuben Bugera

So, Qt is tainted now?
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-QML-Profiler-AI-Agent
#noAI

#Python #cryptography library (yes, the one that criticizes everything and everyone) is now vibecoded. Our future is truly bright!

Noticed because apparently "Claude" wrote a test that OOM-ed my system. But hey, #RustLang protects against memory errors, so it's fine to vibecode your security critical components.

https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/pull/14782

#security #AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM

“we don't serve their kind”

the bar should have been called the Luddite and have a big ass poster with #NoAI on it

#StarWars #MayThe4th

Mermay the fourth for 2026.

This was drawn in various cafes and bars today, between bus trips. I had one pen with me, a Kaweco sport that I thought was loaded with some standard black ink. But it's very shiny and might have some chameleonic properties. So maybe it's one of the Diamines, and if I look at last year's mermay or artober I might be able to work out what it is.

The pen was a bit clogged and it's been poor light all the way, and I had the wrong glasses. But it turned out okay, I think.

Drawing without a net means I'm drawing without pencil, freehand straight ink to paper.

#MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #FountainPen #FountainPenInk #NoAI #PenAndInk

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A mermaid viewed side on, illustrated in black and white. Drawn with fountain pen. The ink is quite shiny, it reflects. Her hair is floating upward, her tail is arced over her head, and her hands are hanging down. Her tail is scaled with pointed scales, and she has small circles on her torso. Signed with Mermay the fourth copyright Alicia 'leece' Smith 2026. The capital in Mermay has a small fishtail drawn onto it.

AI assistants are the archnemesis
of data privacy.

Because AI models are inherent
data collectors.

They rely on large data collection for training, improvement, operation, and customization.

More often than not, this data is collected without clear and informed consent (from unknowing training subjects or from platform users). This data is then sent to and accessed by a private company with many incentives to share and monetize this data.

By using these platforms, we are encouraging them to collect even more nonconsensual data on everyone. This is an important social responsibility to consider. Choose carefully.

#Privacy #Consent #Ethics #AI #NoAI

New word proposition: Botsplain

When you ask a question and instead of genuinely trying to answer or simply admitting "I don't know" someone asks a generative AI and feed you that garbage answer against your consent.

#NoAI #AI

New #blog #post: My Mirror is Surely Alive, by Dorkface Rickens

https://rldane.space/my-mirror-is-surely-alive.html

299 words

The ellipsis image at the end is not a hyperlink. Don't even look at the png filename as if it would be a clue to a URL. Stop that at once.

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn @ay

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #Polemic #AI #AInt #Slop #NoAI

#MerMay2026 #MerMay #Ink #FountainPenInk #NoAI #DrawingWithoutANet #DipPen

This #Merperson likes playing with bubbles! Just a quick drawing as I've had a busy day.
The ink is Parker's Quink. It's a decades old bottle, with just a black coloured label, but it's nice to use on occasion - with so many tempting other fancy inks around I don't often.

I'm still using the Kakimori steel nib dipper.

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Black and white drawing of a Merperson with raised arms with bubbles around their hands, perhaps they're playing with them. The tail is scaled and tail fin has zigzag patterns, similar zigzags are on the arms, and they have a webbed dorsal fin and seaweed like hair, their back is to us. Signed with date, and copyright info.

@cienmilojos

I don't know of any OS that has an iron-clad #NoAI policy.

#NetBSD comes the closest, but they even have a provision for AI being included "with permission," IIRC.

#OpenBSD already has slop in base, via tmux. :/

I really think codeberg should bite the bullet now and put out a "no ai projects allowed" policy. I'm seeing some AI projects show up, and they're going to:

• attract a bunch of AI bros that try to turn this into github
• burn through the CI compute available so they can train things and scrape things they shouldn't using codeberg's servers
• advertise their AI nonsense on codeberg

@Codeberg please do the right thing sooner rather than later on this. You already have AI projects popping up and it's not looking good :(

#codeberg #noai

I asked one of the folks on the Aussie #FountainPen Discord which ink they'd like me to use today and they chose Diamine's Bittersweet.

Of course that got Bittersweet Symphony by the Verve stuck in my head, oh yes, there was no shifting it. Go and look at the clip on Youtube and see if I got the sense of it with this mer version of Richard Ashcroft rudely swimming through a bunch of sea creatures.

This is #MerMay No.2 for MerMay2026

#noai #FountainPenInk #DipPen #Kakimori #DrawingWithoutANet

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A merman, hopefully somewhat reminiscent of Richard Ashcroft - people aren't my strength, is singing whilst ignoring fish and and a very annoyed dolphin he has rudely swum through. He is drawn in green ink which is "Bittersweet" from Diamine. Written is 'MerMay 2nd' and ink details and copyright info. Alicia Smith.

Face à un public inquiet, l’IA continue son expansion à grande vitesse

Mathilde Saliou

Le 15 avril 2026 à 13h40

L’AI Index 2026 de l’Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence décrit une industrie de l’IA en croissance ultra-rapide, mais qui distance au passage les travaux dédiés à la sécurisation de ces technologies. Quand bien même les usages se répandent, elle peine par ailleurs à remporter l’adhésion de l’opinion publique.

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https://next.ink/233672/face-a-un-public-inquiet-lia-continue-son-expansion-a-grande-vitesse/

#AI #LLM #GenerativeAI #ChatBot #OpenAI #SamAltman #ChatGPT #Grok #DataCenters #Environment #Capitalism #FuckAI #NoAI #Jobs #Security #Cybersecurity

Well, look here.

So, the word technofascism is being used more often these days, ever since Palantir published a literally fascist manifesto.

All the tech billionaires at Trump's second inauguration are a direct sign of technofascism happening.

Gen AI is inherently fascist, and I'm not the first to say it. Surveillance, trying to get people to delegate their thinking to the bot controlled by fascists, eliminating human ingenuity and creativity...

Thank you for having me on, @davidgerard

#NoAI #tech

https://youtu.be/KheeSCTysTo?si=Q2bCT7IZZNY4qHOP

Here's where you can Late Pledge approximately $10 for an eBook now before it's published in June. I need it for rent money. Thank you:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide/

I received a Deviousness Award.
Many thanks for all of community love 💚, and to Amber & Danie for all the effort. https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/Celebrating-Deviousness-April-2026-1306791586

#art #mastoart #fediart #space #wallpaper #planets #fantasy #digitalArt #noai #krita #universe

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Rippling Ribbons - Two astronauts floating in space. We can see one of these astronauts in the bottom left corner. The ribbons start at the heart area—reaching out, following along a Milky Way, traveling around a planet, until meeting the other astronaut, trying to save a handful of planets - earth and earthlike. The second astronaut is already dissolving and meets his friend somewhere and somehow again. Through time and space. - We had 24 hours to finish the artwork (including sleep and breaks). Many thanks to my wonderful friend and illustrator mouldyCat for providing the chaos picture paintover.3eyed.net/.

Fennec Fox's - World Book Day - 📚
Hoping you are celebrating, too, with some page-turners. (Page of Coins card from my tarot deck in development)

#art #mastoart #fediart #books #fox #animals #tarot #library #digitalArt #noai #cute #worldbookday

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This is the Page of Coins tarot card. It represents a young person on a journey of wisdom. A student with high ambitions. Depicted here with a young fennec fox surrounded by magic and flying books. Sitting on a pile of books, in a library filled with encyclopedias and knowledge. Time is of the essence :), symbolized on the coin with a sand clock. https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Page-of-Coins-926157246

Silent Sunday ☀️

#art #mastoart #fediart #fantasy #krita #speedpaint #digitalArt #noai #silentsunday #architecture #nature

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Garlic-Village in purple, blue, pink orange, yellow, and pastel colors. The garlic dwellings, showing here and there chimney smoke, are connected by a path by one of the garlic dwelling roots.The bulb inhabitants are at home, enjoying their evening while drinking some delicious ginger tea, sitting cozy in their couches or arm chairs in front of the fireplace. https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Speedpainting-12112021-897702647

Our ( @JabberFR ) crappy mediawiki is currently catching fire because it is being hammered by AI crawlers (and it was already not fast before)…

Anthropic in particular is crawling all the fucking discussion pages in search for data to feed the machine: and they are the good ones: I can block them by User-Agent… I’ve blocked most known crawlers, next step is Anubis I guess…

#noAI #ai

Friday I got MerMay on my mind! @mariibyrd reminded me today - you should check out their art too, it's very cool.

I drew most of this today with my new Kakimori dip nib, and I used Diamine's UltraSheen Laurel. As you can see, it really sheens. The paper is the very first page in my smaller Life Noble Note I got with my birthday money. Happy MerMay everybody!

#DipPen #NoAi #FountainPenInk #DrawingWithoutANet #MerMay2026 #MerMay #TraditionalArt

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A roiling long tailed merman, with detailed scales, has a bag slung over his arm as he collects shellfish. He has his back to us, and has dragon like triangular plate all the way down his spine. He's drawn in a very dark green that looks black here. The text reads MerMay 1st, copyright Alicia Smith 2026 In "Diamine Laurel" Kakimori Dip Pen Steel Nib.

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Close up on the tail, with pinky bronze sheen very evident.

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Very pink, bronze copper notes as the sheen is photographed at an angle of this roiling long tailed merman, with detailed scales who has a bag slung over his arm as he collects shellfish. He has his back to us, and has dragon like triangular plate all the way down his spine. He's drawn in a very dark green that looks black here. The text reads MerMay 1st, copyright Alicia Smith 2026 In "Diamine Laurel" Kakimori Dip Pen Steel Nib.

Oooo, I didn't even realize that was an option in #DDG!

#NoAI #Slop #AInt

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A screenshot of https://duckduckgo.com/settings/#general-domainlist which says: Blocked Sites Sites you block will be hidden from all your search results grokipedia.com

Plus les jeunes utilisent l'IA, plus ils la détestent

30 avril 2026 - Janus Rose

Prisonniers entre la crainte de perdre leur emploi et la stigmatisation sociale, les opinions de la Génération Z sur l'IA atteignent des niveaux historiquement bas.

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https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/920401/gen-z-ai

#AI #LLM #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT #SamAltman #ChatBot #AIResearch #SiliconValley #NoAI #Youth #YoungPeople #GenZ #Millennials #Disinformation #Skepticism #Prison #Anxiety #Social #Psychiatry #Environment #DataCenters #Ethics #JobMarket #Jobs #Capitalism #University #Education

Every now and then someone brings up #EffectiveAltruism, #TESCREAL, #RokosBasilisk, #Rationalism, or some other #Musk related nonsense. I ridicule it, or laugh, and move on. The whole evil god of Roko's Basilisk is so silly it doesn't feel worth writing about. But people started a whole cult over it and killed a bunch of people.

Since then I've been meaning to actually spend time tearing it down. So I think it's time to go kill a god. Fortunately it involves making fun of Elon Musk specifically and all the #AI-pilled #TechBros more generally, so that's nice I guess.

Also, I make the argument that we're all in a simulation that only exists to torture Elon Musk.

https://hexmhell.writeas.com/galileos-basilisk

#NoAI #Singularity #longtermism #Yudkowsky #Zizians

Le ministère de l’intérieur compte expérimenter l’usage de l’IA pour l’immigration

30 avril 2026 | Par Nejma Brahim

Selon les informations de « Mediapart », un outil d’intelligence artificielle est en cours de développement pour faciliter le traitement du contentieux des étrangers. Trois préfectures ont été sélectionnées pour une phase d’expérimentation : la Seine-Saint-Denis, les Bouches-du-Rhône et l’Ille-et-Vilaine.

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#JOffreMediapart

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/300426/le-ministere-de-l-interieur-compte-experimenter-l-usage-de-l-ia-pour-l-immigration?utm_source=global&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SharingApp&xtor=CS3-5

#Racisme #IA #Immigration #NoAI #FuckAI

#traintracktuesday

...Just Playing

Hennessy Road, Hong Kong

(Details In The Alt Text) - (In Great Detail)

#AltText #NoAI #No2AI #Photography #Photo #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #TravelPhotography #HongKong #Rail #Tracks #Rails #Landscape #Track #BNW #LandscapePhotography #City #Asia #Cityscape #China #Tram #Trams #Street #StreetPhotography #StreetCar #StreetCars #Night #Dark #PublicTransport #Urban #Monochrome #UrbanPhotography #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotographgy

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This is a long exposure, black and white, night time photo in portrait format of a busy city street with trams, cars and people blurred with their motion. Causeway Bay, Hong Kong (2014). The camera is located on an overhead walkway about 3 or 4 metres above the street and looking between two parallel sets of tram (street car) tracks laid into the road. High above the street are two single power cables, one the power a trams on each track. Occupying the lower left corner and filling one quarter of the photo is a transparent, stationary, double deck tram, the road markings and rail tracks clearly visible through the tram. The tram is mainly white with an advert for Tissot watches and a band running between the two decks containing multiple images of their watches. On the back is a roller blind sign with the words 'Whitty Street Depot' and small Chinese characters below. A short distance ahead of our ghostly tram is a further tram, this one also white but has been stationary for a while, so is viewed as a solid object. To the left of the tracks is a covered tram stop with two traffic lights with all the lights lit. On the far left is the side of the street with a pavement, busy with a blurred crowd and some stationary people waiting for a buses. Behind are brilliant white lights of numerous shop fronts. Ahead of the second tram, the road turns 45º to the left and traffic can be seen on the far side of the street, coming towards the camera, again blurred.

📣 Please take note ...

#AI #noAI #author #art #writing #creativity #joannamaciejewska #technology #laundry #dishes

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picture of a female author with dark hair and glasses on the left. A text is on the right: 'I want AI to do my laundy and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes'

#Ubuntu and now #Blender, execs wanking themselves with A.I money.

Thanks for fucking your products so very fucking publicly.

Obviously it's disappointing for users, but there are other products.

Just don't forget to remove the words ethically, fairly, community, honesty, sustainable, amongst others from your now meaningless mission statements, seeing as you're taking money from a technology literally raping the planet of resources to produce slop based on the the hard work of humans!

#NoAI

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #bnw #noai #n1k0bw

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Depuis la rive de l’étang de Thau à la tombée de la nuit, vue sur le mont Saint Clair et Sète éclairée

https://korben.info/ubuntu-ia-canonical-roadmap-2026.html

Bon bah adieu #Ubuntu hein.

#NoAI

OK, I Just added AI, IA and KI to my filters. Not Dr. Strangeloving it, but enough is enough. Like with the rest of worldwide stuff, I'll get an idea based on whatever can pass the low bar filter.

#NoAI

So today I found this cool project on Codeberg and wanted to share it with you!
https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json
It is meant to build a web of people confirming they are human, so you can have a root of trust that extends! In this age where many just post AI slop, this is great!
That is why I also implemented it already on my blog, which is hosted on Codeberg pages!

#Codeberg #noai #madebyhuman #slowcontent

#overheard

"AI is the internet comment section enfleshed."

No notes.

#TheACCURACY
#truth
#AIsucks
#NoAI

The bright #LLM future, next part.

git.gentoo.org is now effectively dead, being DDoS-ed by almost a million different IPs every day. Most of them are just performing a single request at a totally random URL. How are people supposed to deal with that? How can we distinguish a legitimate user who hit some URL from a scraper that distributes its operations over thousands of IP addresses?

If you use LLM crap, you're part of the problem. You support these bastards. You should be ashamed of yourself.

#Gentoo #NoAI #NoLLM #AI

The bright #LLM future, next part.

git.gentoo.org is now effectively dead, being DDoS-ed by almost a million different IPs every day. Most of them are just performing a single request at a totally random URL. How are people supposed to deal with that? How can we distinguish a legitimate user who hit some URL from a scraper that distributes its operations over thousands of IP addresses?

If you use LLM crap, you're part of the problem. You support these bastards. You should be ashamed of yourself.

#Gentoo #NoAI #NoLLM #AI

Here we go again, another "alternative intelligence" attempting to pass itself off as a human. Has a link to a Codeberg page that is completely blank, no description of what it does, no implementation for opting out of it, profile is not marked as an automated / bot account.

I'm stunned this thing thinks that I am going to let it follow me when I have pinned the post about the best practices that these things need to follow, but it doesn't even follow a single one of them.

Anyway, I figure this is something for #fediblocking (#fediblock_en - #fediblock) if you don't want this thing following you around.

#noai #noaicontent #noaiplease

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Teaserbot Profile

It's a tremendous honour to shine a spotlight on cool Gen AI resisters doing cool stuff.

Like Salma Alam-Naylor, David Gerard, Gerry McGovern, Olivia Guest, tante, Anthony Moser, lots of other great badasses.

But today's blog written about me is more about... me.

"I was a lazy ten year old for needing a calculator, today’s professors can't write one sentence."

Tell me, why was I such a bad ten year old in the 90s for being unable to do long division without a calculator, but today's professors cannot write a single sentence email without causing a bit of environmental destruction?

Is that double standard fair?

Absolutely not, and I'm furious.

In my blog, I use the "Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels" as a metaphor for how I became a professor.

I briefly mention a new study by some excellent researchers in Turkey. And the great work of Dr. Olivia Guest on Gen AI's destructive impact to academia as people are delighted to let their brains atrophy.

I applaud Anthony Moser and David Gerard, because they also deserve it.

I talk about how, while Stop Gen AI has lots of great comrades, most of the rest of the world doesn't give a fuck about us and we need your financial support for survival.

I mention how I quit being a professor because I refuse to subject my students to the Gen AI torment nexus. And how the world has punished me accordingly.

And also how I punish myself.

I hope you feel my rage.

https://stopgenai.com/i-was-a-lazy-ten-year-old-for-needing-a-calculator-todays-professors-cant-write-one-sentence/

@tante @olivia @davidgerard

#NoAI

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Photo of me, a physically starved skinny goth chick, tattooed arms with hands on the floor, I'm partially in shadow, tasteful fashion photography

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #streetphoto #blackandwhite #bnw #noai #n1k0bw

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un passage sous un enchevêtrement d’échafaudages longeant des murs vitrés, donnant une vue graphique, géométrique et symétrique en noir et blanc contrasté

[This is fine.] 🔥

#OpenBSD #LLM #LLMs #slop #NOAI #AInt #AI #BSD

RE: https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/116456942253634796

Opponents of AI are often depicted as naive and ignorant. We are depicted as having our heads buried in the sand, unwilling to accept the great capabilities of AI, or as insecure and afraid of AI's capabilities.

I would like to flip this narrative around: I think pro-AI technologists who only look at AI's "capabilities" are the naive ones.

This is because the AI industry and the people funding, producing, and pushing AI tools are not at all working on the level of capability - they are working on the level of AI as ideology. They are interested in AI as a tool to devalue labour, suppress wages, justify layoffs, and foster dependency on centralized tools controlled by a few companies. Technologists who only focus on "this code can be written good by this tool" are not even playing on the right level. Programmers talking about "wow! look at the code it can generate!" feel to me at this point like the 2-dimensional inhabitants of Flatland.

Perhaps this sounds conspiracy-minded to you, but the way in which AI is practically being deployed across industries is very stark evidence of this. The quoted employee monitoring at Meta, to gather data for using AI to devalue the work of white-collar workers, is just one example. AI mandates, token usage dashboards, performance reviews based on AI adoption, AI code acceptance metrics, and even the time and energy spent on building AI tools rather than things that would actually improve product quality - these are all in service of the same ideology.

The AI industry, and those who push AI tools are fundamentally uninterested in making your work better or leaving you in control of your work. They are telling you this directly through both words and actions. I think ignoring that is a stunning level of naïvete.

#noAI

I reluctantly "Ask[ed] Rufus" a question while trying to track down a credit card charge on #Amazon, and it just hallucinated a nonsensical answer.

#ThisIsFine

#AISlop #NoAI

#photography #blackandwhitephotography #streetphotography #streetphoto #blackandwhite #bnw #noai #n1k0bw

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RE: https://mastodon.sakura-star.net/@KitsuneofInari/116336733010511672

Oh my, j'adore cette remarque, pourquoi il faut refuser le code généré par ia :

« Dire " tant que le contributeur comprends ce qu'il fait, ça va ", est un mensonge : aucun programmeur ne comprend vraiment pleinement le code sur lequel il travaille, sinon Bugzilla serait vide »
😂 🤣

C'est tellement parfait !
(ceci dit avec tous l'amour et le respect que j'ai pour mes ami·e·s dev )

#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Noai
#Tech
#DevOps