AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing
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Re: AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing
#2So is vaccine resistance.
Doesn't mean it's correct, or empirically-based.
Re: AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing
#3Seems a bit counterproductive if you're concerned about the environmental impact of AI to trick hyperscalers into burning more compute
Re: AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing
#4> The poison fountain itself is hosted on rnsaffn.com
Would the scrapers not just add these sites to do not crawl list?
Re: AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing
#5I'm very skeptical of his premise. I feel like AI acceptance/resistance is dependent on what social media site you use. I believe it's antagonistic on Reddit, but sites like X are generally pretty excited for AI. Certainly in my life people are accepting and excited for AI releases and tools, maybe so long as your experience with AI isn't Microsoft enterprise copilot.
Re: AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing
#6The "Everybody Loves Raymond" bit isn't "misinformation," it's a Norm Macdonald joke.
I find it kind of sad that people are spending time and energy on this. It seems like something depressed people would do. But free country and all that
Re: AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing
#7So is vaccine resistance. Doesn't mean it's correct, or empirically-based.
So ultra-literally that is true, "resistance" does not mean "reasonable resistance", but I reject your subtext: It's a terrible comparison.
We've had literal generations of experience with vaccines, tons of data with formal systems to collect it, and most of the "resistance" traces back to "I dun wanna" and hearsay.
In contrast, LLM prompt-injection is an empirically proven issue, along with other problems like wrongful correlations (both conventional ones like racism and inexplicable ones), self-bias among models, and humans generally deploying them in very irresponsible ways.
Re: AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing
#8Thanks to this lovely site, and my distaste for AI, I've found a whole ecosystem of minimalist blogs and artists' personal sites. It's shifting my habits and foci. I don't do socials anymore except forums like this.
Maybe I have slop to thank for it.
Re: AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing
#9I'm glad this person found community, but I think they've been a bit starstruck by concentrated interest. At no point in the next 30 years will there not be an active community of people who "loathe" AI and work to obstruct it. There are those people about smart phones, the Internet itself, even television.
Meanwhile: the ability to poison models, if it can be made to work reliably, is a genuinely interesting CS question. I'm the last person in the world to build community with anti-AI activists, but I'm as interested as anybody in attacks on them! They should keep that up, and I think you'll see threads about plausible and interesting attacks are well read, including by people who don't line up with the underlying cause.
Re: AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing
#10This is a normal reaction to ground breaking technology but these reactions never had any noteworthy effect in history. There used to be Maschinenstürmer during the 19th Century industrial revolution. There were also violent enemies of cars in the beginning of the 20th Century, some of them were even willing to kill drivers with lethal wire traps.