James Laverack

STOP DOING AI

YEARS OF MARKETING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND

Want to chat with a PDF? We had a tool for that: It was called "EMAILING THE AUTHORS"

"Let’s shove this feature at users. Let’s do this EVERYWHERE" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

They have played us for absolute fools

I’m playing a CTF with my bestie, as one does, and she pointed out that challenges that use generative AI violate the cardinal rule of CTFs, which is that everything that is in there is there because someone put it there on purpose

As a longtime player and author, that is genuinely really upsetting

this was always the endgame, the complete erasure of trans people from public life and - if these people get their way - from existence entirely

it is a genocidal campaign and it has no place in a moral society

fuck your "just asking questions" about sports

If you think A.I. will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you don't understand your problems.

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How’s that type two fun going for you? 😂

A group of 4 people stand in front of the Houses of Parliament. On the left is Carla Denyer MP. They are holding a placard in the colours of the trans flag which says "My message to my MP... #UniteforTransRights"

Thank you to all those who came to Westminster for the #UniteForTransRights Mass Lobby - it was powerful hearing from my trans constituents about their experiences. With transphobia on the rise I'll keep standing up for the rights of trans people everywhere 🏳️‍⚧️✊ ‪@transsolidarity.bsky.social‬

Mockup drawing of a UK parliament petition where the petitioner has asked for "good thing please" with description "we think the UK needs this". Government responded: "No."

Every UK petition is like this

Apropos of nothing, if you buy a product that has an IP tie in you directly finance the owner of that IP.

If that owner spends their money and time funding hate, then by supporting them you are also funding hate.

Don’t fund oppressors.

TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.

We will gladly no longer carry Codenames and CGE games.

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

Twitter screenshot of @SNeurotypicals: Neurodivergent screening tests will be like "do you struggle with wearing socks" and ND people will be like "nope does not describe me, for you see I have a System" and folks that is what the question is getting at

Aha, found it

This is certainly the tism talking but I find so much joy in curiosity and the process of learning that the idea of wanting to outsource thinking to a machine is unfathomable to me

That’s the fun part! Why wouldn’t you want to do that?

“if I just explain it more, it’ll learn, if I can just get through to it”

it. is. not. a. person.

and even if you know better, it’s still hard to keep that in mind because it sounds like one

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This has to be a joke right? 🤯 Nobody would actually just plug an LLM into production environment… would they? 🫠🫠🫠

Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) .@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database

This thread is incredible.

"It's not a political issue"

My dudes the government just published draft guidance saying it's inappropriate for kids of any age to be taught about gender identity and an EHRC consultation closed in the last couple of weeks asking where we should be legally allowed to piss.

I’ve gone from ‘this version of Labour wouldn’t have repealed Section 28’ to ‘this version of Labour would have enthusiastically introduced Section 28’

It will live on in our laptop stickers uwu 🥺👉👈

everything I read about AI tells me that regardless of how it develops I need to avoid using it in order to preserve my ability to think independently

This!

Reasonably often. About half an hour ago at work maybe with a long post.

There’s also the classic “why?” (I already know but I’m making a point), which is a little bit… hrm… manipulative maybe? But, is often less blunt than a direct “You are making a mistake”.

Depends on if you mean “why?” (genuine curiosity) or “why?” (exasperated).

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

What an absolute grift. I guess it might be worthwhile for nazis who are too lazy to think up their own racist and fascist content

Fake website servic welcome page. text reads: "Your favorite tool is now ruined by AI" "you might not like it but shareholders love it"

when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus

Then The Core (2003) is my suggestion. It’s delightfully nonsensical but pretty fun. It’s more of a disaster movie than a tech movie, but it does have a “hacker” character.