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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Considering weāve already got a burgeoning Luddite movement thatās been kicked into high gear by the AI bubble, Iād personally like to see an outgrowth of that movement be what ultimately kicks it off.
There were already some signs of this back in August, when anti-AI protesters vandalised cars and left āButlerian Jihadā leaflets outside a pro-AI business meetup in Portland.
Alternatively, I can see the Jihad kicking off as part of an environmentalist movement - to directly quote Baldur Bjarnason:
I wouldnāt rule out an artist-led movement being how the Jihad starts, either - between the AI industry ādirectly promising to destroy their industry, their work, and their communitiesā (to quote Baldur again), and the open and unrelenting contempt AI boosters have shown for art and artists, artists in general have plenty of reason to see AI as an existential threat to their craft and/or a show of hatred for who they are.
i think you need to be a little bit more specific unless sounding a little like an unhinged cleric from memritv is what youāre going for
but yeah nah i donāt think itās gonna last this way, people want to go back to just doing their jobs like it used to be, and i think it may be that bubble burst wipes out companies that subsidized and provided cheap genai, so that promptfondlers hammering image generators wonāt be as much of a problem. propaganda use and scams will remain i guess
Iāll admit to taking your previous comment too literally here - I tend to assume people are completely serious unless I can clearly tell otherwise.
Scams and propaganda will absolutely remain a problem going forward - LLMs are tailor-made to flood the zone with shit (good news for propagandists), and AI tools will provide scammers with plenty of useful tools for deception.