AI = Bad

A tranche of articles

Photo by Kris Tian on Unsplash

I’ve covered AI slop a few times in my tech posts.

I thought I’d gather together some recent news, articles and musings on the topic.

I guarantee at least a few of these will surprise (and maybe horrify) you.

AI Used For Killing

• It looks like the US used Claude AI to strike the girls’ school in southern Iran, killing 168

AI Used For Propaganda

• Three Recent Examples Of AI Being Used For Empire Propaganda

• ‘This was forged’: Residents deny sending emails pushing Bay Area air policy change (Fossil fuel industry front groups using AI platforms to flood clean air regulators with fake public comments – submitted under real residents’ names, without their consent.)

• Warmongers Keep Generating AI Atrocity Propaganda About Iran

AI Used For Stealing Creative Works

• 10,000 Authors Publish Blank Book Protesting UK AI Copyright Legislation

• Government backtracks on AI and copyright after outcry from major artists

• First Grammarly cloned me without permission. Then another AI company asked if it could do the same—for $2,000 (That was interesting to me in a few ways. My last book was about the publishing process. I had mentioned ProWritingAid but excluded Grammarly, in the editing section, and am now glad of that. I’ve seen genAI write stuff “in the style of Karl Drinkwater” so it has obviously been illegally trained on my books.)

• AI Is Not Your Friend...

AI Abused By Governments

• Ready or Not, AI Government is Already Here

• ‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is threat to UK’s security

AI Forced On People

• ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers

• “If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?” Educators reveal a growing crisis on campus and off (Full series of “AI Killed My Job” posts)

• Microsoft testing wearable AI gadget aimed at office workers

AI Encouraging Murder And Violence

• Chatbots encouraged ‘teens’ to plan shootings in study

AI Data Centres And Their Negative Impacts

• Finding the Good in the Bad

• Big Tech / AI Impacts (my post and links)

• The Steam Deck OLED’s price hikes have killed its status as the best deal in PC games hardware (due to RAM being used in AI data centres)

Boycotting AI

• The AI Resist List

• Is this product ‘human-made’? The race to establish an AI-free logo

• Generative AI (my post and links)

• It’s open season for refusing AI

• Artificial Hype, Authentic Resistance

• Pope says AI must be ‘disarmed’ to prevent domination, exclusion, and death

It’s funny how CEOs only want to get rid of lower-paid people’s jobs … What a coincidence. It’s like when they fail, it is thousands of normal people who get the sack, not the CEO.

---

PS If you want to buy me a coffee, that’s an option, and gratefully received! It helps fund all these posts. I’m also an author, in case you want to treat yourself to my lovingly created books, and I help writers improve their craft.