Elena Rossini 📍 FOSDEM @_elena@mastodon.social
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Dear Fedi friends,

I'd like to put together a list of people who are publicly resisting / calling out LLMs and AI slop.

Why? I enjoy reading my Fediverse feed in topical lists and I need something to counteract the unrelenting AI hype I see in the media.

Do you have any recommendations?

So far, at the top of my list I have:

@timnitGebruTimnit Gebru (she/her) @emilymbenderProf. Emily M. Bender(she/her) and @alexhanna of @DAIR

plus @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @jaredwhiteJared “Indie Social Web” White and @tante

Anyone else to recommend who advocates for ?

Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop
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@_elenaElena Rossini 📍 FOSDEM @timnitGebruTimnit Gebru (she/her) @emilymbenderProf. Emily M. Bender(she/her) @alexhanna @DAIR @jaredwhiteJared “Indie Social Web” White @tante I would clarify also that I am not quite in terms of AI tech, but I am definitely opposed to the *AI industry* and this hype wave. There may be various useful things from this tech, but the net version of things with it being forced upon society right now in this hype wave is that everything is getting much worse, and sickeningly so.

Several more pieces need to be added to the puzzle to make "AI" tech more useful, and I'm also simply opposed to a direction in society that dismisses and devalues creative endeavors, which a lot of this hype is putting at the center of itself. Creativity is what makes life largely worthwhile. I'm not willing to give that up.

I have no problem with OpenImageDenoiser in Blender, which speeds up renders through machine learning, and in no way devalues creativity. But something which made it so I just typed a few words into Blender and it did all my artwork for me, I would oppose.

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