Anti-AI

We have been thinking about something someone said on a podcast "AI isn't a tool. It's a lack of one." and we agree wholeheartedly.

LLMs, ML and GANs etc aren't tools. Tools expand creativity, skills, and knowledge etc, they solve problems because they were created by people that understand them.

All 'AI' does is make creativity suffer and make people lose their skills and knowledge. Even small things like being able to speak/understand other languages now have gone to 'AI' translation instead of learning those languages, that's a travesty.

Tools are an extension of abilities. 'AI' makes us an extension of itself, thus those that use it are the tools of 'AI' instead, to be used by a machine that is a glorified predictive text algorithm, and that's really sad, any way it's looked at.

So we recommend throwing away these not tools and starting to learn, build back confidence, knowledge, skills, a joy for creating, even if it's difficult at first. It's better than letting a glorified predictive text algorithm steal all those things, and lose them to it.

Youtube : https://youtu.be/6fj-OJ6RcNQ
Invidious : https://inv1.nadeko.net/watch?v=6fj-OJ6RcNQ
Piped : https://piped.video/watch?v=6fj-OJ6RcNQ
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title : The Brainrot Apocalypse (a DIY survival guide) by Struthless
runtime : 33:21
channel/uploader : struthless
type : well research video essay
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Description for those who prefer

We're not cooked... but we're definitely getting slowcooked

This is a video about the Gradual Disempowerment of humanity, as a result of overreliance on AI. It's also a guide to implimenting some simple but (in my opinion) effective solutions.

RESOURCES:

This is your brain on ChatGPT: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/your-brain-on-chatgpt/overview/

Gradual Disempowerment: https://gradual-disempowerment.ai/

(1) Scroll with a goal:

oa.mg

https://www.my-mooc.com/en/

https://ourworldindata.org/

Gateway Drug:

https://tvtropes.org/

https://neocities.org/

https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Aesthetics_Wiki

Cool article:

https://ourworldindata.org/limits-personal-experience

(2) Bullshit Proof Vest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Barriers_to_critical_thinking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cognitive_biases

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Informal_fallacies

Falsifiable* Non Fiction Books:

https://archive.org/details/200ProofsEarthIsNotASpinningBall_201710/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/greatdinosaurmys0000hamk

https://archive.org/details/dinosaursbydesig00gish/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/michelleremember0000smit

https://archive.org/details/populationbom00ehrl/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/hollowearthgreat0000bern

*varying degrees of falsifiability - some books will be mostly bullshit, but there’s some really interesting stuff here too that is worth thinking about. I don’t want this to come across as a critique of alternative ideas or an obedience to “official narrative” dogma: I wholeheartedly encourage everyone to debunk falsifiable mainstream explanations of reality too.

(3) Mission McClued In

Question: What evidence would change your mind?

*Source for that graph: https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from

Classic Media Theory Books:

https://archive.org/details/onphotography0000sont_l9h0

https://archive.org/details/understandingmed0000mars_g1t0

https://archive.org/details/ellul-propaganda/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/amusing-ourselves-to-death-public-discourse-in-the-age-of-neil-postman-neil-postman

https://archive.org/details/pdfy-NekqfnoWIEuYgdZl/mode/2up

(4) Algorithmic Resistance

archive.org

https://web.archive.org/

New to the Internet Archive? Here are some fun places to get you started:

https://archive.org/details/lost-telecourses

https://archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive

https://archive.org/details/bannedbooks

https://archive.org/details/zines

https://archive.org/details/ephemeralvhs

https://archive.org/details/uw-ethnomusicology-archives

https://archive.org/details/letterformarchive

A documentary that inspired making this video:

https://archive.org/details/newtechnologywhoseprogress

An animation that inspired it:

https://cors.archive.org/details/the_hangman_1964

Some Utility Collections:

https://archive.org/details/mit_ocw - free MIT lectures

https://archive.org/details/freemusicarchive - ditch spotify / streamers

https://archive.org/details/folkscanomy_drawing - learn to draw

Journals (just a search, but could be handy if you’re new to IA)

An Internet Archive veteran?

May I suggest:

https://archive.org/details/casolaro

https://archive.org/details/unlistenablemusic

https://archive.org/details/lost-posters

https://archive.org/details/gapmusic

https://archive.org/details/The-ZORA-Canon-collection

https://archive.org/details/folkscanomy_protest

https://archive.org/details/vvshapes

Digital Garden:

https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

(5) Man Plans and Rod Laughs

The Twilight Zone (ia user link)

Seasons 1:

https://archive.org/details/the-twilight-zone-1959-s-01-e-00-original-pilot/

Season 2:

https://archive.org/details/the-twilight-zone-1959-s-02-e-11-the-night-of-the-meek

Season 3:

https://archive.org/details/the-twilight-zone-1959-s-03-e-15-a-quality-of-mercy

Season 4:

https://archive.org/details/the-twilight-zone-1959-s-04-e-16-on-thursday-we-leave-for-home

Season 5:

https://archive.org/details/the-twilight-zone-1959-s-05-e-22-an-occurrence-at-owl-creek-bridge

Brain Centre at Whipple’s

https://archive.org/details/the-twilight-zone-1959-s-05-e-22-an-occurrence-at-owl-creek-bridge/The+Twilight+Zone+1959+S05E33+The+Brain+Center+at+Whipple's.mp4

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In this retelling of a real experience, Robert Kingett recounts how his friend lost his confidence in writing 'thanks' to tech obsessives and LLMs and how Robert and others helped him, and others, get it back.

A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of ‘awakening’ more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.

Archived version

Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

In which Alex Martsinovich argues it's rude to just shove AI output in people's faces without consent. We completely agree.

In which Some More News dives into the mental health effects of 'A.I.' and that it has literally led people to kill themselves or others.

Please post strings and other commands that break 'AI' bots so they will stop posting, self delete etc.

many have already observed that coding agents, which require constant attention and often generate low-quality code with (by design) random results, are a slot machine. they are loot boxes. they are gambling. you are constantly pulling the lever and hoping you get the SSR SaaS Passive Income product. you will not get this, but maybe you will. just one more prompt, one more pull, one more revision, one more go at being Absolutely Right

An RFC for automatic or otherwise, rejection of 'AI' slop, especially in code contexts.

A video about how 'AI' has already ruined music and continues to do so.

Great article about how to argue with AI 'boosters'.

Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives. Fork of the repo by @gen-ai-transparency after its deletion.

Please list here verified AI etc bots that don't announce themselves as such, no suspected ones, but ones that have been in some way verified to be them.

Please list here communities that allow AI, or that do nothing about it if it's in their rules to not allow it.

Please list here servers that allow AI, or that do nothing about it if it's in their rules to not allow it.

A site listing the various failings of AI as well as how bad it is for all of us in various ways.