Say Yes - Do No

A site for AI resistance tactics, reclaiming agency and organising for better technology.

“They all say ‘yes’, but they do ‘no’. That has to be it. There’s no other way to explain these figures. If they would do ‘yes’, the figures would have improved by now. [sigh] It would be easier if they would just say ‘no’. Then you could have a conversation about it [staring blankly].” 

(Anon.)

Reclaiming Futures - King's College London

A bit of a niche one given that it's based specifically out of KCL but there's a new (unofficial) group working there to challenge the uncritical narratives around AI in Higher Education. Reclaiming Futures is focusing specifically at King's for now but hopefully there'll be scope for crossover with other institutions,...
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The AI Resist List

Created by We & AI, DAIR, the Refugee Law Lab and working with Karen Hao the AI Resist List is a major new effort to create a database of AI critical movements from around the world. It’s a great resource for exploring what’s going on and seeking spaces for collaboration and inspiration. I was also vaguely involved,...
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Monday AI Resistance Update #9

A random sampling of stuff I've come across this week... -- Article - A Lo-Fi Rebellion Against A.I. I don't think there's anything revelatory in this, artists have for a while now been valorising their own human jankiness as a counter to the hyper-realist sheen of GAI outputs but the commercialisation of it suggested...
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Exposure Therapy - AI Resistance Inspired by AI Hype

Between the two distant poles of thought on Artificial Intelligence - those of abolitionism and blind enthusiasm - there lays an infinite and fertile ground for eclectic resistance. In my own views I sit closer to abolition than anything, as looking at AI is more or less my day job I never struggle to find new...
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Thought - Post-Bubble Accounting

I do think the AI financial bubble will ultimately burst but it's an increasingly hard one to have great faith in as a motive force for change around the technologies involved. Seems like so many of our governments have so completely committed themselves to the ethical abyss of miraculous AI growth that even when it...
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Monday(ish) AI Resistance Update #8

A random sampling of stuff I've come across this week... -- The kids are alright... A rare feel good moment out of Florida which is doing the rounds to start with as the young ones over at the University Of Central Florida give a heartfelt reaction to the 'revolutionary' nature of AI... Article - Starmer adviser held 16...
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Monday AI Resistance Update #7

A random sampling of stuff I've come across this week... Article - The people building AI think it might be conscious. That’s not the most alarming part A nice contrast in this between the usual fantasies of AI fanatics/profiteers and some blunt cynicism from the redoubtable Emily Bender. Interesting to see the former...
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Data Centres & Class

Having just read this article by Holly Buck I'm immediately trying not to be too scornful. The gist of it is that resistance to data centre construction is a: a privileged, NIMBY past time and b: a middle class (in the UK sense) limitation of access to AI 'tools' that they can afford but which they deny the working...
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SayYesDoNo - BlueSky

I have created a BlueSky account for this site, perhaps the least exciting way I could add it to social media... Anyway, feel free to follow if you like, will try to use it (semi) regularly for sharing things as well as the usual posts here. - Dylan
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Monday Resistance Update #6

A random sampling of stuff I've come across this week... Article - Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization The internet, having killed off the fine old tradition of 'a bloke in the pub reckons...' has finally come full...
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Event thoughts - Resisting Big Tech Empires

This took place on Saturday at Southbank Uni here in London. Organised by Global Justice Now it brought together activists and academics with a varied range of positions but unified by a disdain for the tech-oligarchy of the moment. It wasn't exclusively AI focused but, unsurprisingly, AI took up a lot of the...
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Kill AI

Spotted in Portugal...
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Monday Resistance Update #5

Bit of a lightweight contribution this week as I've been buried in paper writing recently (hopefully coming soon!) and not paid much attention to what's going on around the place. More next time no doubt... Resistance - Humanising Musk and 'The Zuck' Pedestrian crossings in California have been hacked to give out...
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(Almost) Monday Resistance Update #4

A short update today as I put out the last one on Thursday. Again, I'm running late, but things have certainly gotten busy recently. Normal schedule is slowly resuming, Tuesday is almost Monday after all... -- Article - Gen Z workers are so fearful AI will take their job they’re intentionally sabotaging their company’s...
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(Not Quite) Monday Resistance Update #3

Having been off for the last week or so on my holiday's I've missed a couple of these so figured a Thursday catch-up would be good. Will be back on schedule next week. -- Event - Low-Tech, Luddism and Liberation: reclaiming technology for the collective good (Latvia) First off an excellent looking, week long summer...
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