Say Yes - Do No

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“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.)

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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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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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Anti-AI Anthology Submission Guidelines

Anti-AI Anthology This upcoming collection of prose, poetry and visual art is intended to present new narratives and experiences which challenge both the inevitability and the value of Artificial Intelligence as we’re currently (and potentially) seeing it mobilised. Unrepentantly anti-AI - we’re looking to represent...
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Monday Resistance Update #2

A roundup of some resistance relevant things I've noticed through the week, a long way from comprehensive. Articles, papers, podcasts, news etc. If anything comes up that you think should be added just get in touch. -- Article - UK Government Backs Down on Opt-Out Nonsense A victory that should never have had to be won,...
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Monday Resistance Update

Going to try to make this a habit, just sharing things I've discovered through the week. Articles, papers, podcasts, news etc. If anything comes up that you think should be added just get in touch. -- Article - ‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI A...
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Power Tools of AI Zine - Issue 2

Just a quick heads up about the new edition of the Power Tools of AI Zine that's just been released. Edited by the excellent Bart Fish you can find it over here. Digital copy is free but if you've got a couple of quid spare I definitely recommend the hard copy - it comes with stickers and who doesn't like those? As an...
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Bits of Resistance

Just a couple of bits that I've caught recently around tech resistance... Nearby Glasses A new app that uses Bluetooth identifiers to detect Meta glasses and the like in your immediate vicinity. How effective it is I can't say but the intent is definitely positive. How you react if you do detect Meta glasses being used...
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Summer School - Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming

Not necessarily one everyone will be able to access given the cost and location but definitely an interesting project and one I'd love to see replicated elsewhere. This summer school is organised by some great people, Iris van Rooij is someone I cite in my own work and I've had some contact with Olivia Guest through the...
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Shame, Shame, Shame... AI & Shame as Resistance Tactic

"Well it's easy to mock... fun too..." Click on pretty much any social media post about AI and the two things you're almost guaranteed to find are a: someone making as completely unsubstantiated claim about productivity, creativity or AGI and b: someone making fun of them for it. Where there's AI hype, there's AI...
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