Conspicuous Garden Gnome
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This my neo-luddism account
Anti-AI
This my neo-luddism account
Anti-AI
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AI is an anti-labor tool. People are right to recoil at its use.
December 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
AI is an anti-labor tool. People are right to recoil at its use.
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This makes me want to find or create a chat on Element (or Discord) called Humorless Luddites that's LITERALLY just a bulletin board where we can still find each other. Folks can have a Fight This Bullshit activism channel there, yes, fine, great, but the overall vibe would be more social
The internet is fast becoming so choked with this, it'll be unusable. We'll all be boats chugging blindly through the gloom and the muck, finding nothing, barely each other, uncertain what's true or even real anymore.
googled something and clicked a link to a website I'd never heard of that looked like a forum, read the discussion and realized the person asking a question and all of the answers were all LLM generated, the entire website was a fake forum pretending to be people asking/answering questions
December 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This makes me want to find or create a chat on Element (or Discord) called Humorless Luddites that's LITERALLY just a bulletin board where we can still find each other. Folks can have a Fight This Bullshit activism channel there, yes, fine, great, but the overall vibe would be more social
I know! How is this “the future?” Why do we want a future without artists and musicians?
I think people should be pretty angry that a handful of men unilaterally decided culture, art and civilization should be fed into a woodchipper so they could attract VC funding.
December 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I know! How is this “the future?” Why do we want a future without artists and musicians?
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VIRGIN AI LOVER: you've got to embrace new technology
LUDDITE CHAD: the devastating capabilities of anthropogenic forces confront us with an urgent need to rethink the socially and ecologically destructive potentials of "progress"
LUDDITE CHAD: the devastating capabilities of anthropogenic forces confront us with an urgent need to rethink the socially and ecologically destructive potentials of "progress"
November 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
VIRGIN AI LOVER: you've got to embrace new technology
LUDDITE CHAD: the devastating capabilities of anthropogenic forces confront us with an urgent need to rethink the socially and ecologically destructive potentials of "progress"
LUDDITE CHAD: the devastating capabilities of anthropogenic forces confront us with an urgent need to rethink the socially and ecologically destructive potentials of "progress"
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Entering my Luddite era.
Not luddite as anti-technology. Luddite as in desiring to work in harmony and honesty with technology I understand and respect and maintain. Luddite as in fighting against those who warp it into monstrosity and leverage it against humanity and community and the common good.
Not luddite as anti-technology. Luddite as in desiring to work in harmony and honesty with technology I understand and respect and maintain. Luddite as in fighting against those who warp it into monstrosity and leverage it against humanity and community and the common good.
December 12, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Entering my Luddite era.
Not luddite as anti-technology. Luddite as in desiring to work in harmony and honesty with technology I understand and respect and maintain. Luddite as in fighting against those who warp it into monstrosity and leverage it against humanity and community and the common good.
Not luddite as anti-technology. Luddite as in desiring to work in harmony and honesty with technology I understand and respect and maintain. Luddite as in fighting against those who warp it into monstrosity and leverage it against humanity and community and the common good.
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Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Want to find a good picture of a garden gnome for my profile picture. Kind of can’t be genAi. Maybe I will draw one myself at some point.
December 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Want to find a good picture of a garden gnome for my profile picture. Kind of can’t be genAi. Maybe I will draw one myself at some point.
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The Amazing World Of Tomorrow
November 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The Amazing World Of Tomorrow
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Being anti-AI does not mean that I'm anti-technology.
It means that I'm pro-art and pro-human.
It means that I'm pro-art and pro-human.
December 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Being anti-AI does not mean that I'm anti-technology.
It means that I'm pro-art and pro-human.
It means that I'm pro-art and pro-human.
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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These assholes killed the internet and I will go to my grave hating them
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 AM
These assholes killed the internet and I will go to my grave hating them
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
“A still-underappreciated truism of our moment is that there is great solidarity to be found in refusing a technology.”
“If, if, if!” Mellor interrupted. “What’s the use of such sermons as thine to starving men? . . . If men would only do as thou says, it would be better, we all know. But they won’t. It’s all for themselves with the masters.”
Learning from the Luddites - Boston Review
The key to an alternative is building a movement.
www.bostonreview.net
December 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
“A still-underappreciated truism of our moment is that there is great solidarity to be found in refusing a technology.”
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Don't forget the other great messaging from these asses:
"These technologies will probably literally destroy humanity and/or the biosphere and we must advance them as rapidly as possible."
"These technologies will probably literally destroy humanity and/or the biosphere and we must advance them as rapidly as possible."
December 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Don't forget the other great messaging from these asses:
"These technologies will probably literally destroy humanity and/or the biosphere and we must advance them as rapidly as possible."
"These technologies will probably literally destroy humanity and/or the biosphere and we must advance them as rapidly as possible."
Incredible piece of art by animator Zane Little. It’s been a while since I’ve seen something that really encapsulates the darkness of this technological era.
#anti-ai #neoluddite #fuckai #fuckchatgpt #unplug #antiai #chatgpt
#anti-ai #neoluddite #fuckai #fuckchatgpt #unplug #antiai #chatgpt
Durrr ChatGPT
YouTube video by Zane Little
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Incredible piece of art by animator Zane Little. It’s been a while since I’ve seen something that really encapsulates the darkness of this technological era.
#anti-ai #neoluddite #fuckai #fuckchatgpt #unplug #antiai #chatgpt
#anti-ai #neoluddite #fuckai #fuckchatgpt #unplug #antiai #chatgpt
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The moon tonight compels you, reject the deadening effect of the corporate would-be masters, who would have you chasing your tails & trends! Lean toward your curiosities! Give of your passions. This is the moon talking, not me.
December 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
The moon tonight compels you, reject the deadening effect of the corporate would-be masters, who would have you chasing your tails & trends! Lean toward your curiosities! Give of your passions. This is the moon talking, not me.
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you put self-driving cars on the road and you kill a person, you should be scared. if you put a chatbot into kids' hands and tell them to use it and they use it and then they kill themselves, you should be really fucking scared. the idea that the wagons should circle *around you* is unbelievable.
November 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
you put self-driving cars on the road and you kill a person, you should be scared. if you put a chatbot into kids' hands and tell them to use it and they use it and then they kill themselves, you should be really fucking scared. the idea that the wagons should circle *around you* is unbelievable.
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GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
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Education profs #3: AI is a planet- and brain-killer we desperately are hoping a financial bubble pops on before the earth boils and our students' minds melt into pre-neanderthal goop
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Education profs #3: AI is a planet- and brain-killer we desperately are hoping a financial bubble pops on before the earth boils and our students' minds melt into pre-neanderthal goop
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“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
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lots of "i want AI to do X instead of Y" posts
I don't want AI to do a fucking thing
we should be scrubbing every single instance of it from human life without exception
Scorched earth for AI
I don't want AI to do a fucking thing
we should be scrubbing every single instance of it from human life without exception
Scorched earth for AI
November 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
lots of "i want AI to do X instead of Y" posts
I don't want AI to do a fucking thing
we should be scrubbing every single instance of it from human life without exception
Scorched earth for AI
I don't want AI to do a fucking thing
we should be scrubbing every single instance of it from human life without exception
Scorched earth for AI
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The Luddites were not anti-technology they were pro-skill. That same conflict is here with us for AI:
medium.com/age-of-aware...
medium.com/age-of-aware...
Is “ethical AI” possible?
In which I discuss Luddites, skilled labor, and the difference between an LLM and a hammer.
medium.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The Luddites were not anti-technology they were pro-skill. That same conflict is here with us for AI:
medium.com/age-of-aware...
medium.com/age-of-aware...
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I find that there’s usually a direct line between people who habitually post unattributed artwork and AI boosterism. Like, if they already act like images just appear out of the ether and have no provenance, they’re also very likely already openly hostile to artists.
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I find that there’s usually a direct line between people who habitually post unattributed artwork and AI boosterism. Like, if they already act like images just appear out of the ether and have no provenance, they’re also very likely already openly hostile to artists.