Benjamin

As Anthropic prepares to IPO for over $1 trillion, a reminder of Dario Amodei’s words soon after founding the company: “Distributed human labor is being used to train AI models by large, centralized actors, who concentrate the resulting profits while in the long run making the human labor obsolete”

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

Roblox delenda est honestly

Roblox downloaded 145 GB of models from our sites (including adult content) without asking - open3dlab.com/news/roblox-...

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

I stand by the simple act of engaging and celebrating other artists who are actively making and leaning in this moment is the best way to deal with the dread of the moment we find ourselves in. You only engage with the doom posts you fall deeper but there is hope and joy still in making anything.

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

we've created a no AI notice to reassure people seeing our trailers and games with hand drawn lettering and a relaxing cute fox, and it's also up on itch in multiple formats* for anyone to use: eniko.itch.io/cute-fox-no-... *with/without fox, transparent/opaque, in 4k, 2160p, 1440p, 1080p, and 720p

this why I believe abstinence is the only real way, but I know it's hard we have been here before with smoking, where the best thing is never to start & the second best is to stop as soon as you can — and it doesn't matter if one cig a day is "not that bad" if you can go down to one go down to nil

Brazil will get more attention either way it goes, but this is truly an incredible victory for the student protesters. We ran this in March 2025, which explained the movement's strengths but seemed overly optimist in the months that followed. 18 months later, they succeeded. Gen Z strikes again.

In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

Today is a great day. Congratulations to Brazil.

tbh if you're someone making videos on YT especially making videos about things you made using coding on YT it might be worthwhile to lead with a "made by humans, no generative AI was used in the creation of this video/game/whatever" splash screen

NEW VIDEO!!! We all know AI art sucks but in this video I explain why. It's not just about farming out creativity to a machine but the spread of consumer logic throughout society. I connect AI to mass production, consumption and alienation via Raymond Williams and Walter Benjamin

“[T]he makers of #AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again.” A very gratifying polemic. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

@adambecker.bsky.social read this terrible AI doomer book so you don’t have to. #datmpodcast #noai #siliconvalley @multitudeshows.com Listen Now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7BT...

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the most troubling part of this, is that he feels so comfortable saying it because he knows he won't incur any kind of repercussions and absolutely nothing will happen for it, and as we've seen, nothing did

Capitalism is fundamentally incapable of protecting human safety and wellbeing, #2024943: www.latitudemedia.com/news/catalys...

seemingly nuanced but inherently inconsistent and vacuous arguments for rights for lines of code. the entire thread is great

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This article came out six weeks ago, there's enough public evidence that @foreignpolicy.com let me say "bribed" without caveat, and still, the new Kushner revelations show he was BRIBED. Directly bribed. Right into secret foreign accounts bribed. Massively corrupt, ultimately world-changing bribes.

LightBox Expo stands firmly against the use of Generative AI. Visit the LightBox Expo’s Merch Booth, 801, to rep merchandise from LBX's Anti-AI collection and support human artists! To view LBX's full policy on Gen-AI, please visit lightboxexpo.com/ai-policy/

seeing Elon go on a multi-day crashout about Talarico has really highlighted how psychologically devastating it would be to Republicans if they lost Texas. So much of their self-identity is tied to repping Texas as the anti-California and would be shattered if the state even tipped blue.

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

God oppfølging fra NRK: Equinor snakker om olje og gass til investorer, og om fornybar energi til folk flest. Dette er bevisst strategi. Petroganda virker. www.nrk.no/artikkel/equ...

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I feel blessed to see this while it only has 100 shares. I love when people just make stuff. I imagine this is how people in the past just sculpted and drew weird little creatures, inspired by (intentionally?) misremembered details and crossovers.

I got inspired and made something beautiful. The Sneer. He's 3D printable, so might use him as part of a Turnip28 force or something.

On April 5, 1977, people with disabilities occupied government buildings across the country with simple demands: access to education, jobs, and public spaces. It has been fifty years since the Section 504 sit-ins, but the fight for those with disabilities continues.

I'll be honest, there is nothing more demoralizing to me than devs saying "I know AI is built on theft, and anti-labour, and harms the environment, but I'm going to use it anyway bc I don't believe individual choices matter". This is how a movement fails. www.molleindustria.org/blog/future-...

Some words on how to evaluate language technologies (and caution against using them to undermine others' work) buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

A group of Texans believe they’ve discovered evidence that the state’s environmental regulatory agency has continued to issue permits to data centers despite Governor Greg Abbott’s call for it to stop. @mjgault.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404media.co/it-aint-righ...

But what is Tim and Elon's argument? What points do they raise? What insight do they offer? None... because Tim spends all day talking to LLMs he doesn't provide an argument or counter-point - he tells Kenney how to think. Think like me - he is trying to correct an LLM not speak to a human.

I don't have AI psychosis I've got AI depression different thing

seems timely this week aftermath.site/tag/tim-swee...

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Hey remember that time you banned me over “wishing ill” to JK Rowling?