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Meta AI posts your personal chats to a public feed
Meta’s got a new chatbot app, Meta AI. You can ask it questions in text or voice, much like ChatGPT or Gemini. [Meta] There’s one difference — the other chatbots don’t reveal your conversations to the world. Some maniac at Meta put up a public feed of people chatting to the bot. [Twitter, thread] There’s […]
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/14/meta-ai-posts-your-personal-chats-to-a-public-feed/
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Kevin O’Leary’s giant Utah data centre: will it happen?
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/14/kevin-olearys-giant-utah-data-centre-will-it-happen/]Kevin O’Leary is a TV star rich business guy. Not quite a billionaire. He calls himself “Mr. Wonderful.” Everyone loves TV star rich guys, right? O’Leary saw the AI bubble pumping up and he thought: I want in on that. O’Leary found a space in Utah and started buying up land and rights. And he […]
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Kim Crawley: Technofascism Survival Guide
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/01/kim-crawley-technofascism-survival-guide/]Today’s Pivot to AI is a podcast interview with Kim Crawley of StopGenAI, who we’ve had on previously, about her book Technofascism Survival Guide, which is coming out in June! [YouTube; podcast] Here’s the kickstarter and here’s Kim’s home page. $5-and-up patrons can also see the original unedited Zoom interview.
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Associated Press dumps journalists for AI
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/07/associated-press-dumps-journalists-for-ai/]The Associated Press is getting rid of journalists and pivoting a bit more toward AI. It offered 120 journalists a buyout offer on Monday and it wants to cut 5% globally. [AP] The AP ignored a request for discussion from the union, the News Media Guild, last week. AP is worried that newspapers aren’t buying […]
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Nobody wants OpenAI shares on the secondary market
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/03/nobody-wants-openai-shares-on-the-secondary-market/]OpenAI wants to do an IPO this year! In the leadup, they’ve completed the $100 billion-ish deal they were working on. The total take is $122 billion, from Amazon, Nvidia, Softbank, and a pile of smaller investors. [Bloomberg, archive] It is, of course, not $122 billion of cash in their hands. It’s $25–30 billion and […]
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The AI bubble and the global polycrisis
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/27/the-ai-bubble-and-the-global-polycrisis/]The AI bubble is a symptom of our wider economic problems. It’s the last thing masking the bigger systemic issues — so they don’t show up in the macro numbers. Just on the ground. But the US bombed Iran, and Iran shut the supply lines for the world. Whoops. Matteo Wong and Charlie Warzel at […]
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BuzzFeed goes AI — then it goes broke
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/26/buzzfeed-goes-ai-then-it-goes-broke/]BuzzFeed is a website famous for its happy clickbait, listicles and quizzes. It even used to have a top-quality news section, BuzzFeed News! And it’s about to go broke. What happened? AI happened. In December 2022, BuzzFeed CEO and founder Jonah Peretti saw the newly-released ChatGPT — and it one-shotted him: [CNN, archive] Peretti told […]
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Block’s AI layoffs are fake too
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/09/blocks-ai-layoffs-are-fake-too/]Twitter cofounder and ayahuasca beard weirdo Jack Dorsey has a company called Block that does a useful thing — CashApp — and a lot of stupid stuff with bitcoins and so on. On 26 February, Block announced a huge layoff — over 4,000 people, 40% of the company. Morale has been down at Block — […]
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Insurers don’t want to cover AI
[Full text: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/26/insurers-dont-want-to-cover-ai/]AI everywhere is — as you know — the future of business and civilisation! Except your company may have issues insuring against AI causing problems. AIG, Great American, WR Berkley, and other insurers are asking permission from regulators to just … not cover AI. [FT, archive] Berkley wants to exclude: [National Law Review, 2025] any […]
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Open source projects reject AI code over copyright concerns
I asked a couple of months ago: if AI code was such an obviously superior engineering method, why didn’t we see AI code everywhere in open source? Since then, there have been a few performative AI code pulls in open source projects. They’re generally from competent coders who know what they’re doing — but every […]
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/22/open-source-projects-reject-ai-code-over-copyright-concerns/
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Bad brainwaves: ChatGPT makes you stupid
In a new study, MIT Media Lab measured 55 people over four months on how well they could write an essay — either with ChatGPT, with a search engine, or just their unassisted brain. The researchers hooked them to an EEG to see which parts of their brains were active or not. [arXiv, PDF] The […]
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/16/bad-brainwaves-chatgpt-makes-you-stupid/
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Let’s put more AI slop into advertising!
Facebook is floating AI-generated ad campaigns! You’ll type in your rough ideas and Facebook will generate a small campaign for you, with ad copy and imagery. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says AI advertising is part of his “vision” for the future of Meta. [WSJ, archive] But ad agencies have been trying out generative AI since ChatGPT […]
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/03/lets-put-more-ai-slop-into-advertising/
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Google takes AI propaganda to the movies
Google is very upset that a lot of the public don’t really like AI. You might think this was because of AI slop and explicit threats to their jobs, but Google is pretty sure it’s because people saw the Terminator films. So Google is funding films about how AI is good really. Mira Lang at […]
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/28/google-takes-ai-propaganda-to-the-movies/
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Destroying Autocracy – July 17, 2025
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.
It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.
DA comes out on Thursday and is updated through the end of day on Friday. Then we start over. So take your time in perusing it and check back in over the weekend.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
We are back from holiday and brief respite from Fascism Friendly Florida.
Featured Item
Hamish Campbell writes:
Capitalism’s invisible hand has always relied on hidden data. In the digital age, that data is metadata the overlooked, under-the-hood information that tells us who, where, when, how often, and what next. It doesn’t matter what you say or do if someone else controls the context around it. That’s where the power lies. Let’s be clear: the battle for metadata is the battle for the future.
Capitalism: Metadata is hoarded by the dotcons. This is the tech-feudalism of today—soft fascism in algorithmic form.
Chinese Communism: Here, the state doesn’t outsource metadata – it owns it. Surveillance is centralised. Social credit systems reduce people to patterns and can be used to penalise deviation.
Liberalism: Wants to privatise metadata to the individual, to revive the mythical free market of rational actors with perfect information. But this is a fantasy—metadata’s power comes from aggregation, and no individual can match corporate or state capacity to hoard it. The liberal path leads to a slightly less abusive cage.
Anarchism and the Commons: A Fourth Way
What does anarchism want? It wants the social conditions for free association. It wants autonomy, not just individual, but community autonomy.
In commons vs. the market, capitalism uses metadata to target, extract, and sell. We use metadata to share, trust, and build. The Open Media Network proposes a radical shift to replace the market with metadata commons. In capitalism, knowledge is hoarded for advantage. In the commons, it is shared for coordination. The market’s “invisible hand” becomes the commons’ visible knowledge, messy, partial, human, but rooted in mutual aid, not profit.
Metadata and the OMN Path: Who Controls the Invisible Hand?
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggery
TechCrunch reports:
Ukrainian hackers claim to have destroyed servers of Russian drone maker
The Kyiv Independent reports:
EU slaps new sanctions on Russia over hybrid threats, disinformation
BleepingComputer reports:
Europol disrupts pro-Russian NoName057(16) DDoS hacktivist group
ETH Zurich announces:
A language model built for the public good
Open Future reports on:
It’s FOSS reports:
Europe on a Roll: Plans Open Source Alternative to Confluence and Jira
OpenProject shares:
Empowering the Public Sector with OpenProject: An Open Source alternative for project management
Bloomberg Law reports:
States Target AI Hiring Tools as Federal Freeze Attempt Fails
404 Media has:
The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
Immigration Raid Tracking App ‘ICE Block’ Keeps Your Data Private, Researcher Finds
Open Ice is a new resource:
TechPolicy reports:
States Are Fighting Back To Defend Medical Privacy and Safeguard Democracy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:
Despite Supreme Court Setback, EFF Fights On Against Online Age Mandates
Neutral
TechPolicy reports:
How the EU’s Voluntary AI Code is Testing Industry and Regulators Alike
Making Media Pluralism Work in the Age of Algorithms
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:
EFF’s Guide to Getting Records About Axon’s Draft One AI-Generated Police Reports
The Evil Empire (AKA Autocracy) Strikes Back
Platformer reports:
The campaign to make it illegal for ChatGPT to criticize Trump
Krebs on Security reports:
DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI
404 Media reports:
ICE Is Searching a Massive Insurance and Medical Bill Database to Find Deportation Target
TechPolicy reports:
The US Just Logged Off from Internet Freedom
ProPublica has:
The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE
A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers
Ars Technica reports:
Trump sues Corporation for Public Broadcasting directors who refused to be fired
Pariah States
BleepingComputer reports:
North Korean XORIndex malware hidden in 67 malicious npm packages
DarkReading reports:
China-Backed Salt Typhoon Hacks US National Guard for Nearly a Year
4 Chinese APTs Attack Taiwan’s Semiconductor Industry
Noyb has:
How TikTok, AliExpress & WeChat ignore your GDPR rights
Big Media
404 Media reports:
The Media’s Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
TechPolicy reports:
Old Tricks, New Tech: How Legacy Media Capture Fuels Today’s Digital Authoritarianism
Mediations in an Emergency reports:
Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning
Big Tech
Ars Technica reports:
New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering
TechCrunch reports:
Of course, Grok’s AI companions want to have sex and burn down schools
OpenAI and Anthropic researchers decry ‘reckless’ safety culture at Elon Musk’s xAI
The Verge asks:
Where are the iPhone’s WebKit-less browsers?
Pluralistic by Cory Doctorow has:
Where are the iPhone’s WebKit-less browsers?
404 Media reports:
a16z-Backed AI Site Civitai Is Mostly Porn, Despite Claiming Otherwise
The Markup reports:
AI is helping students be more independent, but the isolation could be career poison
This times 1,000.
Terror
404 Media reports:
3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought
Cybersecurity/Privacy
Bleeping Computer has:
Google Gemini flaw hijacks email summaries for phishing
Malicious VSCode extension in Cursor IDE led to $500K crypto theft
Sounds like a win-win.
Police disrupt “Diskstation” ransomware gang attacking NAS devices
Ars Technica reports:
Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records
DarkReading reports:
Military Veterans May Be What Cybersecurity Is Looking For
Beats being in the National Guard.
Women Who ‘Hacked the Status Quo’ Aim to Inspire Cybersecurity Careers
The Next Web reports:
Whisper emerges from stealth with ‘God Mode’ to tackle cybercrime
Fediverse
Connected Places has:
Age Verification Laws: Are the New Social Networks Different, Or Not At All?
Steve Bate has:
ActivityPub Client API: A Way Forward
The Social Web Foundation has:
Seeking interop testing for geosocial ActivityPub client
Mastodon has:
Privacy Guides has:
Privacy and Security on Mastodon
Bandwagon has an update:
Elena Rossini has:
My adventures in self-hosting: day 211 (CDN edition)
Forgejo announces:
TechCrunch reports:
Meta appoints generative AI VP to run Threads
I guess it wasn’t shitty enough.
Slightly Federated Social Media
Connected Places has:
Reuters reports:
European project Eurosky aims to reduce reliance on US tech giants
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
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Destroying Autocracy – December 25, 2025
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.
It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ´em.
So folks, this is the final edition of Destroying Autocracy. Recently, I ran across a quote that fits with why I ran this project:
“I am absolutely convinced that only a small minority, a very small minority, among us, are seriously reached and profoundly moved by our propaganda of criticism, of doubt, of rebellion, of free investigation, of independent research. On the other hand, it is clear that our first interest lies always in seeking to increase this minority; to keep it, under all circumstances alive, active, refreshed. Our own happiness depends on it.
— Emile Armand”Thanks for following us. Now, on to what’s next.
The Programmer’s Fulcrum is now the home for a fusion of Symfony Station and Battalion. Its tagline is Devs Defending Democracy, Destroying Autocracy, and Developing the OMN.
You can sign up now.
We are posting on the Fediverse now at @thefulcrum
Please copy and paste our handle into you favorite client to follow us. Original website content will start next week.
Featured Item(s)
I ran across these last week.
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
These are principles that should be implementing when developing for the Open Media Network.
Jan Wideboer writes:
Over the past few months, I thought a lot about Digital Sovereignty. I talked to experts, from analysts over legal experts to people running companies and public authorities. I tried to distill what is really at the core of the principle.
OCT – My Framework for Digital Sovereignty, Part 1
This is a good way to look at it.
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggery
TechCrunch reports:
Stanford’s star reporter takes on Silicon Valley’s ‘money-soaked’ startup culture
TechPolicy shares:
Making the Digital Markets Act Developer-Friendly
The Guardian reports:
This is Europe’s secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble
The Guardian view on Australia’s social media ban: dragging tech companies into action
MPs question UK Palantir contracts after investigation reveals security concerns
BleepingComputer reports:
Italy fines Apple $116 million over App Store privacy policy issues
Waterfox announces:
No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla’s Next Chapter
The Register notes:
Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful
You don’t need Linux to run free and open source software
This is one you should read and take action on. 🙂
Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam’s big tech
It’s FOSS reports:
Denmark Begins its Exit from Microsoft — and This is Just the Beginning
At least the enemies of privacy are slowly telling Microsoft to fuck off.
NextCloud shares:
The Republic of Serbia deploys Nextcloud for compliant, on-premises collaboration
Robert Riemann asks:
EU OS: Which Linux Distribution fits Europe best?
Hamish Campbell asks:
What Did We Learn from Web3, Crypto?
Signal has:
This was 2025 for Signal: strong growth and many new features
CoMaps shares:
CoMaps and its community at the end of 2025
Neutral
The Center for Democracy and Technology has:
TechPolicy Press reports:
The Path to a Sovereign Tech Stack is Via a Commodified Tech Stack
Platforms Report to EU Regulators Under DSA With an Eye on US Politics
Europe Tried to Take Control of Its Digital Stack in 2025. Where Does It Stand Now?
The Evil Empire (AKA Autocracy) Strikes Back
Krebs on Security reports:
Dismantling Defenses: Trump 2.0 Cyber Year in Review
Cory Doctorow says:
America’s collapsing consumption is the world’s disenshittification opportunity
Tech Dadu reports:
EU Prepares Wider Data Retention Rules, VPN Providers Could Be Affected
The Register reports:
Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy
Pariah States
And:
Amazon security boss blames Russia’s GRU for years-long energy-sector hacks
China, Iran are having a field day with React2Shell, Google warns
BleepingComputer reports:
France arrests Latvian for installing malware on Italian ferry
Denmark blames Russia for destructive cyberattack on water utility
DarkReading reports:
Russia Hits Critical Orgs Via Misconfigured Edge Devices
Dormant Iran APT is Still Alive, Spying on Dissidents
EuronNews reports:
Pro-Russian hackers claim French postal service cyberattack
Big Media
Ben Werdmuller asks:
Just for brain-dead people.
Nieman Lab’s Predictions for Journalism 2026
Journalists talk about the elephant in the room: our relationship with Big Tech
CyberCultural shares:
My 2025 Indie Web Report and Thoughts on the Open Web
404 Media reports:
Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
Big Tech
The Nerd Reich reports:
Tech Billionaires Flirt With the Guillotine
JD Vance’s Theo Bro Network: Silicon Valley Meets ‘God’
Futurism reports:
Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything
The Rebel Tech Alliance reports on:
404 Media reports:
Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers
SuperBloom examines:
From Content to Interface: Rethinking Platform Transparency Through Design
Wanna-be Big Tech
Mozilla spouts techbro delusions:
Mozilla’s Next Chapter: Building the World’s Most Trusted Software Company
Fuck Firefox.
Pivot to AI has the reality:
Firefox browser falls to AI. What do we do now?
Zen, Waterfox, or LibreWolf, peeps.
Cybersecurity/Privacy
The Register reports:
New React vulns leak secrets, invite DoS attacks
Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts
Krebs on Security reports:
Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content
DarkReading reports:
Attackers Use Stolen AWS Credentials in Cryptomining Campaign
BleepingComputer reports:
Microsoft 365 accounts targeted in wave of OAuth phishing attacks
Mullvad is:
Announcing GotaTun, the future of WireGuard at Mullvad VPN
Framasoft asks:
Qui suis-je et quelle est mon identité ?
404 Media reports:
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
Fediverse
Tim Chambres shares:
My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions
Ploum shares:
How We Lost Communication to Entertainment
The Social Web Foundation explores:
Implementing Encrypted Messaging over ActivityPub
Literally, awesome.
Connected Places has:
PeerTube announces:
Publish your videos with PeerTube for mobile!
It’s FOSS reports:
Decentralized YouTube Alternative PeerTube Adds Creator Mode
Holos shares:
ActivityPub for WordPress has:
Jose Murilo shares:
Museums in the Fediverse: Experiments with Tainacan, ActivityPub, and WebSocial
DeadSuperHerson says:
Ghost’s ActivityPub Integration Feels Half-Baked
I feel the same way. And it’s why I am running a backup of The Programmer’s Fulcrum on WordPress to keep Ghost honest. We’ll see where TPF ends up in 2027.
Mastodon shares its:
Piefed announces:
PieFed 1.4 is released – emoji, federated stackoverflow and AI content filters
Empathy Forward announces:
Fedify shares:
Fedify 1.10.0: Observability foundations for the future debug dashboard
Slightly Decentralized Social Media
Connected Places has:
ATmosphere Report 147 – Year’s end reflections
ATProto Community has:
Ændra Rininsland: Supporting and growing ATProto development in 2025 and beyond
I am going to check Leaflet out.
TechCrunch reports:
Bluesky launches a privacy-focused ‘Find Friends’ feature without invite spam
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
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I was playing for a while with the idea of utilising my site to post long stuff, but the so many'est person asking my opinion about Proton after reading an online post got me to actually do it.
So here is what I think about Proton in general, with my thoughts on that blog post from Pivot to AI sprinkled in:
https://cambionn.nl/some-thoughts-on-protonComments can go on this post, or just @ me.
#privacy #security #Proton #ProtonLumo #AI #blog #blogging @protonprivacy @davidgerard
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Det var en meget skuffende “AI”-revolution
Her et par år inde i, hvad der er blevet opreklameret som den kunstige intelligens’ æra, kan vi nøgternt se i øjnene, at vi har lagt såvel søgeresultater som administrativt, intellektuelt og kreativt arbejde i hænderne på glorificerede men dybt fejlbehæftede stavekontroller.
Forfatteren Ted Chiang ser f eks ingen parallel til science fiction-genrens billeder af kunstig intelligens i det algoritmiske juks, vi får trukket ned over ørerne PT, men vælger at kalde det anvendt statistik. Det er dybest set Clippy v2, som står på spring for at foreslå at vi kommer en tube trælim i pizzasovsen, eller (ovre på det fhv Twitter) erklære sig selv en Mecha-Hitler.
For det er jo ikke alene varm luft, der driver værket, det er også grundlæggende fascistiske verdenssyn og æstetikker der spyttes ud af generative “AI”-modeller (jeg er i skrivende stund ikke parat til at slippe gåseøjnene omkring betegnelsen, der nok vil fortsætte med at være et hult postulat i mange år endnu). Og den opvarmede luft kommer ikke bare fra Microsoft, Google og OpenAI’s marketingsafdelinger, men i lige så høj grad fra de massive datacentre, hvis energiforbrug allerede er ved at æde de CO2-nedskæringer, der iflg Paris-konventionen er det absolutte minimum for at bevare en beboelig planet.
Der er altså ikke rigtig en forsvarlig brug af såkaldt “kunstige intelligens”, men det betyder ikke at den ikke bliver forsøgt brugt vidt og bredt, for nøj, hvor folk elsker en nem genvej til facit, selv når co-piloten styrer som den har kappet alle trosser til virkeligheden.
Så kom “AI”-teknologien for at tage vores jobs? Kun i det omfang, arbejdskøbere mener at de kan tolerere et markant kvalitetsfald i virksomheden. Men — og her når jeg endelig humlen af indlægget — tog den livet af Superkulturs T-shirtproduktion? Ja. Ja, det gjorde den.
Superkultur skulle jo fungere som en isoleret oase fra internettets store platforme, hvor alt lukker sig omkring den samme hjemmeside, med nogle få åbninger ud i RSS og det nogenlunde acceptable fødivers. Vores sidste(?) afhængighed af eksterne tjenester var tysk registrerede Spreadshirt, hvor vi gennem flere år har lagt egne tryk op til salg på T-shirts, kaffekopper og andet fjollet merch. Der var en del sparkedragter til babyer som gik usolgt hen!
18 august sendte Spreadshirt en mail ud til alle sine brugere, om en forestående justering af priser, samt et nyt “AI”-designværktøj, der giver kunder “mulighed for nemt at tilpasse markedspladsdesigns via prompts. Hvis dit design bliver redigeret i vores designer ved hjælp af AI-funktionen, får du naturligvis stadig den normale betaling for dit oprindelige design“.
Jo tak, du. Det er jo en ringe trøst, hvis kunder har bedt værktøjet om at smide en håndfuld hagekors oven i vores tryk. Som allerede nævnt er der en meget kort afstand fra almindelig clueless brug af “AI” til fascistiske budskaber, som får antallet af Youtube-anbefalinger før man sidder og kigger på en halshugning til at blegne. Selvsagt fór jeg til tastaturet for at spørge om, hvordan vi i Superkultur kan fravælge at medvirke i denne nyskabelse. Svaret er, at dette ikke kan lade sig gøre. Mit gensvar, som Spreadshirt PT ikke har svaret på, er:
Så har vi desværre et ophavsmæssigt problem, hvor Spreadshirt vælger at gøre vore designs tilgængelige i sammenhænge, vi ikke har givet eller kan give samtykke til, fordi vi ikke har kontrol over konteksten hvori vores originale motiver indgår.
Det her må I finde en løsning på, FØR I beslutter at implementere en buzzword-løsning som “AI”.I al retfærdighed skriver Spreadshirt også i den oprindelige opdateringsmail, at man meget gerne må kontakte dem med indvendinger mod de nye regler og funktioner. Dette skal isf ske til en separat emailadresse fra deres support. For en sikkerheds skyld sendte jeg følgende besked på engelsk, men har heller ikke her fået svar endnu:
In response to your decision to make all sellers’ designs subject to “AI” alterations or customisations:
YOU MAY NOT INCLUDE SUPERKULTUR’S DESIGNS IN “AI” OFFERINGS.
Our designs are original IP and only made available in the understanding that they not be altered from the state and context in which they are offered, and on the products we have selected from Spreadshirt’s range.
We will not tolerate that our original designs be used in any way, shape or form as training material for “generative AI”, or in any way repurposed from the intended context by your “AI” tools.
For our longstanding position on the subject, we refer you to the product description for our Spreadshirt design “Butlersk Djihad“
Please respond at your earliest convenience that you have understood and will comply with these terms.
De er dog tydelige med, at indsigelse = opsigelse: “Hvis du gør indsigelse mod de nye kontraktbestemmelser inden for fristen, vil de eksisterende bestemmelser generelt fortsat gælde. Bemærk dog, at da vi ønsker at behandle alle vores partnere ensartet, forbeholder vi os derfor ret til at opsige kontraktforholdet med dig i overensstemmelse med bestemmelserne i Partnerbetingelserne“.
Så vi må gå ud fra, det var det for vores lille og langt fra profitable nebengesjæft med dybt indforståede T-shirtbudskaber for det superkulturelle folk. Men vi er langt fra de eneste med bekymringen overfor Spreadshirts maskinbegejstring. “AI”-kritikeren David Gerard har skrevet et overblik over situationen på Pivot to AI, med henvisning til et skønsomt udpluk af vrede reaktioner rundt om på nettet.
Det kan nærmest ikke betale sig at flytte vores designs over til en anden print-on-demand-udbyder, for senkapitalismen og Cory Doctorows mundrette enshittification-begreb dikterer ligesom at alle kommercielle platforme befinder sig et eller andet sted på skråplanet ned i “AI”-dyndet. Jeg skal i de nærmeste dage omdanne siden Supercouture & grej til et mindesgalleri over den merchandise som nu må leve et efterliv som ikkun JPEGs og lasede loppefund.
Som vi formulerede det i et ca fem år gammelt tryk:
#AI_ #DavidGerard #denDummesteFremtid #enshittification #grej #spreadshirt #tShirts #TakForLort #TedChiang
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Det var en meget skuffende “AI”-revolution
Her et par år inde i, hvad der er blevet opreklameret som den kunstige intelligens’ æra, kan vi nøgternt se i øjnene, at vi har lagt såvel søgeresultater som administrativt, intellektuelt og kreativt arbejde i hænderne på glorificerede men dybt fejlbehæftede stavekontroller.
Forfatteren Ted Chiang ser f eks ingen parallel til science fiction-genrens billeder af kunstig intelligens i det algoritmiske juks, vi får trukket ned over ørerne PT, men vælger at kalde det anvendt statistik. Det er dybest set Clippy v2, som står på spring for at foreslå at vi kommer en tube trælim i pizzasovsen, eller (ovre på det fhv Twitter) erklære sig selv en Mecha-Hitler.
For det er jo ikke alene varm luft, der driver værket, det er også grundlæggende fascistiske verdenssyn og æstetikker der spyttes ud af generative “AI”-modeller (jeg er i skrivende stund ikke parat til at slippe gåseøjnene omkring betegnelsen, der nok vil fortsætte med at være et hult postulat i mange år endnu). Og den opvarmede luft kommer ikke bare fra Microsoft, Google og OpenAI’s marketingsafdelinger, men i lige så høj grad fra de massive datacentre, hvis energiforbrug allerede er ved at æde de CO2-nedskæringer, der iflg Paris-konventionen er det absolutte minimum for at bevare en beboelig planet.
Der er altså ikke rigtig en forsvarlig brug af såkaldt “kunstige intelligens”, men det betyder ikke at den ikke bliver forsøgt brugt vidt og bredt, for nøj, hvor folk elsker en nem genvej til facit, selv når co-piloten styrer som den har kappet alle trosser til virkeligheden.
Så kom “AI”-teknologien for at tage vores jobs? Kun i det omfang, arbejdskøbere mener at de kan tolerere et markant kvalitetsfald i virksomheden. Men — og her når jeg endelig humlen af indlægget — tog den livet af Superkulturs T-shirtproduktion? Ja. Ja, det gjorde den.
Superkultur skulle jo fungere som en isoleret oase fra internettets store platforme, hvor alt lukker sig omkring den samme hjemmeside, med nogle få åbninger ud i RSS og det nogenlunde acceptable fødivers. Vores sidste(?) afhængighed af eksterne tjenester var tysk registrerede Spreadshirt, hvor vi gennem flere år har lagt egne tryk op til salg på T-shirts, kaffekopper og andet fjollet merch. Der var en del sparkedragter til babyer som gik usolgt hen!
18 august sendte Spreadshirt en mail ud til alle sine brugere, om en forestående justering af priser, samt et nyt “AI”-designværktøj, der giver kunder “mulighed for nemt at tilpasse markedspladsdesigns via prompts. Hvis dit design bliver redigeret i vores designer ved hjælp af AI-funktionen, får du naturligvis stadig den normale betaling for dit oprindelige design“.
Jo tak, du. Det er jo en ringe trøst, hvis kunder har bedt værktøjet om at smide en håndfuld hagekors oven i vores tryk. Som allerede nævnt er der en meget kort afstand fra almindelig clueless brug af “AI” til fascistiske budskaber, som får antallet af Youtube-anbefalinger før man sidder og kigger på en halshugning til at blegne. Selvsagt fór jeg til tastaturet for at spørge om, hvordan vi i Superkultur kan fravælge at medvirke i denne nyskabelse. Svaret er, at dette ikke kan lade sig gøre. Mit gensvar, som Spreadshirt PT ikke har svaret på, er:
Så har vi desværre et ophavsmæssigt problem, hvor Spreadshirt vælger at gøre vore designs tilgængelige i sammenhænge, vi ikke har givet eller kan give samtykke til, fordi vi ikke har kontrol over konteksten hvori vores originale motiver indgår.
Det her må I finde en løsning på, FØR I beslutter at implementere en buzzword-løsning som “AI”.I al retfærdighed skriver Spreadshirt også i den oprindelige opdateringsmail, at man meget gerne må kontakte dem med indvendinger mod de nye regler og funktioner. Dette skal isf ske til en separat emailadresse fra deres support. For en sikkerheds skyld sendte jeg følgende besked på engelsk, men har heller ikke her fået svar endnu:
In response to your decision to make all sellers’ designs subject to “AI” alterations or customisations:
YOU MAY NOT INCLUDE SUPERKULTUR’S DESIGNS IN “AI” OFFERINGS.
Our designs are original IP and only made available in the understanding that they not be altered from the state and context in which they are offered, and on the products we have selected from Spreadshirt’s range.
We will not tolerate that our original designs be used in any way, shape or form as training material for “generative AI”, or in any way repurposed from the intended context by your “AI” tools.
For our longstanding position on the subject, we refer you to the product description for our Spreadshirt design “Butlersk Djihad“
Please respond at your earliest convenience that you have understood and will comply with these terms.
De er dog tydelige med, at indsigelse = opsigelse: “Hvis du gør indsigelse mod de nye kontraktbestemmelser inden for fristen, vil de eksisterende bestemmelser generelt fortsat gælde. Bemærk dog, at da vi ønsker at behandle alle vores partnere ensartet, forbeholder vi os derfor ret til at opsige kontraktforholdet med dig i overensstemmelse med bestemmelserne i Partnerbetingelserne“.
Så vi må gå ud fra, det var det for vores lille og langt fra profitable nebengesjæft med dybt indforståede T-shirtbudskaber for det superkulturelle folk. Men vi er langt fra de eneste med bekymringen overfor Spreadshirts maskinbegejstring. “AI”-kritikeren David Gerard har skrevet et overblik over situationen på Pivot to AI, med henvisning til et skønsomt udpluk af vrede reaktioner rundt om på nettet.
Det kan nærmest ikke betale sig at flytte vores designs over til en anden print-on-demand-udbyder, for senkapitalismen og Cory Doctorows mundrette enshittification-begreb dikterer ligesom at alle kommercielle platforme befinder sig et eller andet sted på skråplanet ned i “AI”-dyndet. Jeg skal i de nærmeste dage omdanne siden Supercouture & grej til et mindesgalleri over den merchandise som nu må leve et efterliv som ikkun JPEGs og lasede loppefund.
Som vi formulerede det i et ca fem år gammelt tryk:
#AI_ #DavidGerard #denDummesteFremtid #enshittification #grej #spreadshirt #tShirts #TakForLort #TedChiang
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Det var en meget skuffende “AI”-revolution
Her et par år inde i, hvad der er blevet opreklameret som den kunstige intelligens’ æra, kan vi nøgternt se i øjnene, at vi har lagt såvel søgeresultater som administrativt, intellektuelt og kreativt arbejde i hænderne på glorificerede men dybt fejlbehæftede stavekontroller.
Forfatteren Ted Chiang ser f eks ingen parallel til science fiction-genrens billeder af kunstig intelligens i det algoritmiske juks, vi får trukket ned over ørerne PT, men vælger at kalde det anvendt statistik. Det er dybest set Clippy v2, som står på spring for at foreslå at vi kommer en tube trælim i pizzasovsen, eller (ovre på det fhv Twitter) erklære sig selv en Mecha-Hitler.
For det er jo ikke alene varm luft, der driver værket, det er også grundlæggende fascistiske verdenssyn og æstetikker der spyttes ud af generative “AI”-modeller (jeg er i skrivende stund ikke parat til at slippe gåseøjnene omkring betegnelsen, der nok vil fortsætte med at være et hult postulat i mange år endnu). Og den opvarmede luft kommer ikke bare fra Microsoft, Google og OpenAI’s marketingsafdelinger, men i lige så høj grad fra de massive datacentre, hvis energiforbrug allerede er ved at æde de CO2-nedskæringer, der iflg Paris-konventionen er det absolutte minimum for at bevare en beboelig planet.
Der er altså ikke rigtig en forsvarlig brug af såkaldt “kunstige intelligens”, men det betyder ikke at den ikke bliver forsøgt brugt vidt og bredt, for nøj, hvor folk elsker en nem genvej til facit, selv når co-piloten styrer som den har kappet alle trosser til virkeligheden.
Så kom “AI”-teknologien for at tage vores jobs? Kun i det omfang, arbejdskøbere mener at de kan tolerere et markant kvalitetsfald i virksomheden. Men — og her når jeg endelig humlen af indlægget — tog den livet af Superkulturs T-shirtproduktion? Ja. Ja, det gjorde den.
Superkultur skulle jo fungere som en isoleret oase fra internettets store platforme, hvor alt lukker sig omkring den samme hjemmeside, med nogle få åbninger ud i RSS og det nogenlunde acceptable fødivers. Vores sidste(?) afhængighed af eksterne tjenester var tysk registrerede Spreadshirt, hvor vi gennem flere år har lagt egne tryk op til salg på T-shirts, kaffekopper og andet fjollet merch. Der var en del sparkedragter til babyer som gik usolgt hen!
18 august sendte Spreadshirt en mail ud til alle sine brugere, om en forestående justering af priser, samt et nyt “AI”-designværktøj, der giver kunder “mulighed for nemt at tilpasse markedspladsdesigns via prompts. Hvis dit design bliver redigeret i vores designer ved hjælp af AI-funktionen, får du naturligvis stadig den normale betaling for dit oprindelige design“.
Jo tak, du. Det er jo en ringe trøst, hvis kunder har bedt værktøjet om at smide en håndfuld hagekors oven i vores tryk. Som allerede nævnt er der en meget kort afstand fra almindelig clueless brug af “AI” til fascistiske budskaber, som får antallet af Youtube-anbefalinger før man sidder og kigger på en halshugning til at blegne. Selvsagt fór jeg til tastaturet for at spørge om, hvordan vi i Superkultur kan fravælge at medvirke i denne nyskabelse. Svaret er, at dette ikke kan lade sig gøre. Mit gensvar, som Spreadshirt PT ikke har svaret på, er:
Så har vi desværre et ophavsmæssigt problem, hvor Spreadshirt vælger at gøre vore designs tilgængelige i sammenhænge, vi ikke har givet eller kan give samtykke til, fordi vi ikke har kontrol over konteksten hvori vores originale motiver indgår.
Det her må I finde en løsning på, FØR I beslutter at implementere en buzzword-løsning som “AI”.I al retfærdighed skriver Spreadshirt også i den oprindelige opdateringsmail, at man meget gerne må kontakte dem med indvendinger mod de nye regler og funktioner. Dette skal isf ske til en separat emailadresse fra deres support. For en sikkerheds skyld sendte jeg følgende besked på engelsk, men har heller ikke her fået svar endnu:
In response to your decision to make all sellers’ designs subject to “AI” alterations or customisations:
YOU MAY NOT INCLUDE SUPERKULTUR’S DESIGNS IN “AI” OFFERINGS.
Our designs are original IP and only made available in the understanding that they not be altered from the state and context in which they are offered, and on the products we have selected from Spreadshirt’s range.
We will not tolerate that our original designs be used in any way, shape or form as training material for “generative AI”, or in any way repurposed from the intended context by your “AI” tools.
For our longstanding position on the subject, we refer you to the product description for our Spreadshirt design “Butlersk Djihad“
Please respond at your earliest convenience that you have understood and will comply with these terms.
De er dog tydelige med, at indsigelse = opsigelse: “Hvis du gør indsigelse mod de nye kontraktbestemmelser inden for fristen, vil de eksisterende bestemmelser generelt fortsat gælde. Bemærk dog, at da vi ønsker at behandle alle vores partnere ensartet, forbeholder vi os derfor ret til at opsige kontraktforholdet med dig i overensstemmelse med bestemmelserne i Partnerbetingelserne“.
Så vi må gå ud fra, det var det for vores lille og langt fra profitable nebengesjæft med dybt indforståede T-shirtbudskaber for det superkulturelle folk. Men vi er langt fra de eneste med bekymringen overfor Spreadshirts maskinbegejstring. “AI”-kritikeren David Gerard har skrevet et overblik over situationen på Pivot to AI, med henvisning til et skønsomt udpluk af vrede reaktioner rundt om på nettet.
Det kan nærmest ikke betale sig at flytte vores designs over til en anden print-on-demand-udbyder, for senkapitalismen og Cory Doctorows mundrette enshittification-begreb dikterer ligesom at alle kommercielle platforme befinder sig et eller andet sted på skråplanet ned i “AI”-dyndet. Jeg skal i de nærmeste dage omdanne siden Supercouture & grej til et mindesgalleri over den merchandise som nu må leve et efterliv som ikkun JPEGs og lasede loppefund.
Som vi formulerede det i et ca fem år gammelt tryk:
#AI_ #DavidGerard #denDummesteFremtid #enshittification #grej #spreadshirt #tShirts #TakForLort #TedChiang
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GitLab announces AI layoffs, stock goes down 9%
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Pivot to AI: Kohl-Verlag’s new line of AI slop school textbooks. “The authors and illustrators don’t seem to exist. One author photo turned out to be a stock image. The books seem to have passed through editors who don’t exist either — because the books are AI slop, with really obvious AI-style errors that would have been spotted instantly if a single human had looked.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/01/pivot-to-ai-kohl-verlags-new-line-of-ai-slop-school-textbooks/ -
AI doomsday cultist throws Molotov at Sam Altman’s house
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AI doomsday cultist throws Molotov at Sam Altman’s house
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AI doomsday cultist throws Molotov at Sam Altman’s house
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AI doomsday cultist throws Molotov at Sam Altman’s house
