@truthout_rss_bot To my mind, threats are an additional reason to investigate.

Hi Mastodon!
My name is Keiko, I make art and am based in Brazil. I am not new to the Fediverse, but new to posting in Mastodon! This is my first post here :)
This is a drawing I made after reading The Tombs of Atuan, by Ursula K. Le Guin (she's one of my favourite authors!)
I'd be happy to hear tips to help me get started here, I am looking forward to be more active on the fediverse <3 Thanks in advance!
#introduction

@shadowfals Yay! I'll be keeping my eyes peeled for more info.

After the revolution, can we please do something about the way psych treatment facilities always assume that people need to be cut off from their online social networks please.

I've known 3 people who went into facilities over the past decade or so, and this part of it was actively harmful for all three of them.

@GayDeceiver
🎶 There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza... 🎶

@shadowfals If usage is itself harmful, then yeah.

In a sane world, there would be funding to study the psych effects of LLM usage. Until then...

TLDR: What a mess.

@StillIRise1963 Kings can only keep one thing up at a time, would be my theory.

@naga I'd guess 1970, but it could have been 1972.

The only reason I remember any of it, really, is that I also had a set of Disney picturebook hardbacks which included stills from a lot of the movies then extant.

@naga I remember watching it with my parents in the early 1970s. (I had no clue, until at least the 1980s, that it was problematic.)

@noiob Totally with you on that -- as I said, I really don't get that feeling of accomplishment from work that I didn't do, whether it was done by a person or a machine.

@noiob That's fair, and I wouldn't ask anyone to use a tool which they didn't feel was helpful.

...which, I'm coming to think, is a significant part of the problem: people being not only constantly nagged to use it but in many cases being required to, for absolutely no good reason.

The thing I am proposing in the OP is as much a thought-exercise about the ethics of using free AI SaaS as it is a possible low-key sabotage idea -- not a mandate for anyone.

@danwentzel Patriots FreedomCare America

(Why not use all the buzzwords?)

@slotos @paul_ipv6 @rysiek

The Cows of Vibe Coding come home to roost, perhaps?

Satire may be dead, but irony is alive and eating the world... :blobcatupsidedown:

@JoBlakely

fwiw, I boosted without replying because I don't [yet?] have an opinion (other than "they're all beautiful!") but thought others might. (It often happens that other people have a much more immediate and visceral reaction to aesthetic considerations than I do.)

@cargot_robbie

@artemis Also, that's kind of like "if you hate the USA so much, then why not leave?"

I'll take "Authoritarian Bullshit" for $500, Alex...

@noiob I almost added a disclaimer about LLM usage carrying risks of psychological harm, please speak with a therapist if you have any questions...

I'm not going to say anyone's "immune", but I think some people are a lot less susceptible than others.

My mom, for instance, was telling me about the rush she gets from using AI to enhance (real) photos for promoting a noncommercial activity. Harmless on the surface (since she's not, as far as I know, paying them anything), but she was worried about getting addicted.

I've never experienced that, myself. I used AI image-generation once to make cover-art for a song-parody -- because I had the idea I wanted, but not the skill or time to draw/paint it (nor, at the time, the money to hire someone to do it for me) -- but I never felt pride (or a sense of accomplishment or whatever) in the cover-art itself.

This is something that needs to be studied...

I suppose one could argue that enough people might misjudge their ability not to become addicted, and end up buying premium services anyway -- is that part of your concern?

@StillIRise1963 @sjjh "vibe dating"

@StillIRise1963 ...and, I mean, just to state the obvious: he was kinda at his least trustworthy when not wearing anything at all.

Consider: using free "AI" services is a form of piracy

They're already running the environment-destroying servers, which costs them money, and you're not giving them any to cover it.

This means you're taking away potential revenue by not letting those free services lure you into upgrading to premium.

This should help hasten the popping of the AI bubble, which is something we all* look forward to.

(Just don't integrate it into your workflows or use the output commercially. Maybe send an artist or FOSS coder some money to help compensate for their losses. ...and always be prepared to stop.)

* except for the techbro AI faithful, of course