Michael Morrison
@rhetoricalreader.bsky.social
Reader, gamer, strongly anti-AI
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That’s the thing, it really feels like the beginning of the end, especially if you look at COD trajectory. At first it’s just a couple images, then it’s the sounds and voices, then it’s the writing, then it’s the animation, and then it’s the fucking everything and it’s just shit from an ass
Damn. I've been regularly playing since 2019, but seeing this AI stuff spread throughout the game is incredibly disappointing. Coupled with Sweeney's statements and it feels like a real death knell.
I'd not see how blatantly widespread it was in the spot art pieces or the music. Thanks for sharing.
I'd not see how blatantly widespread it was in the spot art pieces or the music. Thanks for sharing.
December 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
That’s the thing, it really feels like the beginning of the end, especially if you look at COD trajectory. At first it’s just a couple images, then it’s the sounds and voices, then it’s the writing, then it’s the animation, and then it’s the fucking everything and it’s just shit from an ass
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“People don’t have a choice if work makes them use A/I”
I refuse to use A/I. I voice that on any project I touch.
If you’re making “A/I dubs” of animes, you’re the same as a scab during a strike.
Just because it keeps YOU secure, doesn’t mean you’re absolved from the damage you’re causing others.
I refuse to use A/I. I voice that on any project I touch.
If you’re making “A/I dubs” of animes, you’re the same as a scab during a strike.
Just because it keeps YOU secure, doesn’t mean you’re absolved from the damage you’re causing others.
November 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
“People don’t have a choice if work makes them use A/I”
I refuse to use A/I. I voice that on any project I touch.
If you’re making “A/I dubs” of animes, you’re the same as a scab during a strike.
Just because it keeps YOU secure, doesn’t mean you’re absolved from the damage you’re causing others.
I refuse to use A/I. I voice that on any project I touch.
If you’re making “A/I dubs” of animes, you’re the same as a scab during a strike.
Just because it keeps YOU secure, doesn’t mean you’re absolved from the damage you’re causing others.
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the world is learning in realtime what the procgen community has known for years
December 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
the world is learning in realtime what the procgen community has known for years
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I'll say it again -- I'm on my firm's AI committee: every canned demo has had brutal, malpractice-level errors, and every live trial has required more time and care to vet the output than to just do it, like working with an unteachably incompetent associate you'd need to sit down for a Hard Talk.
Loving that AI productivity boost!
"the more artificial intelligence is used within a law firm, the more lawyers are needed to vet the technology’s outputs."
www.afr.com/companies/pr...
"the more artificial intelligence is used within a law firm, the more lawyers are needed to vet the technology’s outputs."
www.afr.com/companies/pr...
Use of AI ‘tech stacks’ driving demand for lawyers
The more artificial intelligence is used within a law firm, the more professionals are needed to vet the technology’s outputs.
www.afr.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I'll say it again -- I'm on my firm's AI committee: every canned demo has had brutal, malpractice-level errors, and every live trial has required more time and care to vet the output than to just do it, like working with an unteachably incompetent associate you'd need to sit down for a Hard Talk.
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I love insinuation from the AI weirdos (including Bsky’s own techno-libertarian staffers) that we who aren’t on board for AI are “anti-tech” as if a ton of us aren’t tech dorks ourselves
I was in tech professionally for nearly twenty years! Some tech is just bad!
I was in tech professionally for nearly twenty years! Some tech is just bad!
"the people who dislike one bad thing also dislike another bad thing"
this is only confusing because you've let genAI melt your brain
this is only confusing because you've let genAI melt your brain
December 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I love insinuation from the AI weirdos (including Bsky’s own techno-libertarian staffers) that we who aren’t on board for AI are “anti-tech” as if a ton of us aren’t tech dorks ourselves
I was in tech professionally for nearly twenty years! Some tech is just bad!
I was in tech professionally for nearly twenty years! Some tech is just bad!
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"AI isn't perfect so double check it"
Okay but if you're using it in the classroom... where people are supposedly learning the information you're asking ChatGPT about... how would you even know what's accurate or not...
We're setting people up for failure
Okay but if you're using it in the classroom... where people are supposedly learning the information you're asking ChatGPT about... how would you even know what's accurate or not...
We're setting people up for failure
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 AM
"AI isn't perfect so double check it"
Okay but if you're using it in the classroom... where people are supposedly learning the information you're asking ChatGPT about... how would you even know what's accurate or not...
We're setting people up for failure
Okay but if you're using it in the classroom... where people are supposedly learning the information you're asking ChatGPT about... how would you even know what's accurate or not...
We're setting people up for failure
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I really want to start pushing this on our reps because, if we can look for a sec beyond the horror of the current administration to a better time, it's something that we want to show the population has a strong appetite for now
Not perfect but way better than this
Not perfect but way better than this
Been saying we need a government run payments processor since it would be bound by code and constitutional restraints. Which payment processors aren't. They couldn't necessarily stop payments at will based on "corporate values" and even if they did, there would be redress through the courts.
December 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I really want to start pushing this on our reps because, if we can look for a sec beyond the horror of the current administration to a better time, it's something that we want to show the population has a strong appetite for now
Not perfect but way better than this
Not perfect but way better than this
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Stop interviewing CEOs
Stop interviewing CEOs about AI.
"Why stop at AI use? We could have mandatory disclosures for what shampoo brand the developer uses" — Epic boss Tim Sweeney says Steam should ditch its AI generated content disclosure. https://bit.ly/4a193vt
November 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Stop interviewing CEOs
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Wow, that one observation I made last year has gone past "screenshot on Reddit" and into "uncited on Reddit."
www.reddit.com/r/Futurology...
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From the Futurology community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the Futurology community
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December 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Wow, that one observation I made last year has gone past "screenshot on Reddit" and into "uncited on Reddit."
www.reddit.com/r/Futurology...
www.reddit.com/r/Futurology...
Final accountability post for November. Day 30.
I wrote 1,901 words tonight. I'm in the turn now. The MC is falling apart and I feel like I'm going with them.
I won't post these everyday anymore, but I'm going to keep working on this.
#writing #writesky #writevember
I wrote 1,901 words tonight. I'm in the turn now. The MC is falling apart and I feel like I'm going with them.
I won't post these everyday anymore, but I'm going to keep working on this.
#writing #writesky #writevember
December 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Final accountability post for November. Day 30.
I wrote 1,901 words tonight. I'm in the turn now. The MC is falling apart and I feel like I'm going with them.
I won't post these everyday anymore, but I'm going to keep working on this.
#writing #writesky #writevember
I wrote 1,901 words tonight. I'm in the turn now. The MC is falling apart and I feel like I'm going with them.
I won't post these everyday anymore, but I'm going to keep working on this.
#writing #writesky #writevember
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Several major universities are essentially giving up their ability to teach students much of anything with the hopes of avoiding repercussions from awful people, that care nothing about the academy. Seems like a losing battle to me.
November 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Several major universities are essentially giving up their ability to teach students much of anything with the hopes of avoiding repercussions from awful people, that care nothing about the academy. Seems like a losing battle to me.
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Every sensational claim I see about AI reduces to this When you test AI on a task class you find that it fails to replace the human effort in the task. It shifts effort while automating a reduced set of activities within the task.
I’ve been automating analytics for years and this is well known.
I’ve been automating analytics for years and this is well known.
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Every sensational claim I see about AI reduces to this When you test AI on a task class you find that it fails to replace the human effort in the task. It shifts effort while automating a reduced set of activities within the task.
I’ve been automating analytics for years and this is well known.
I’ve been automating analytics for years and this is well known.
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It has been painfully obvious for *decades* that far-right wanted force US to listen to far-right speech while making other speech illegal, but our insanely stupid & short-sighted & hateful Elite joined them in pretending their anti-free-speech agenda was actually free-speech.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It has been painfully obvious for *decades* that far-right wanted force US to listen to far-right speech while making other speech illegal, but our insanely stupid & short-sighted & hateful Elite joined them in pretending their anti-free-speech agenda was actually free-speech.
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It is *lunacy* for the ostensibly liberal opposition party to say we shouldn't limit any individual's wealth and power after watching a cadre of fascist billionaires systematically destroy this country. That's probably the single most important thing we *must* do!
November 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
It is *lunacy* for the ostensibly liberal opposition party to say we shouldn't limit any individual's wealth and power after watching a cadre of fascist billionaires systematically destroy this country. That's probably the single most important thing we *must* do!
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“conservative media” here just means “all mainstream media” because conservatives have total discursive and media hegemony, all the “liberal” media is also culturally and discursively conservative, just with a more “centrist” self-image
This is a huge part of why so many people think we're in the middle of a widespread "anti-woke backlash": Small movements opposed to social progress are collected into trend stories by conservative media. Far larger movements that want more diversity are ignored or cast as threats.
"Woke is ruining D&D". Meanwhile Dimension 20, one of the wokest real play shows around, just sold out Madison Square Garden and the Hollywood Bowl for live shows and brings armies of new players to RPGs.
November 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“conservative media” here just means “all mainstream media” because conservatives have total discursive and media hegemony, all the “liberal” media is also culturally and discursively conservative, just with a more “centrist” self-image
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November 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Meritocracy is a lie and the wealthiest people on this planet are statistical anomalies winning billions by failing upwards and it has turned their brains in to mush.
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Meritocracy is a lie and the wealthiest people on this planet are statistical anomalies winning billions by failing upwards and it has turned their brains in to mush.
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A variation on this frequently stops a code review of AI gen code fucking dead.
"It's impossible to tell definitively if someone is using AI!"
—Someone who has never contemplated the plagiarism-detection mechanism of, for instance, asking a student what a word they used in their paper means.
—Someone who has never contemplated the plagiarism-detection mechanism of, for instance, asking a student what a word they used in their paper means.
November 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A variation on this frequently stops a code review of AI gen code fucking dead.
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As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
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Private equity.
November 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Private equity.
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Really cool that now people are realizing the health and ecological problems that come with massive data centers companies are offshoring the issue to countries with no regulations and framing it as economic development
armenpress.am/en/article/1...
armenpress.am/en/article/1...
Armenia’s Hrazdan announced as location of first regional $500 million AI data center
The advanced AI infrastructure announced by Firebird, in collaboration with the Armenian government, NVIDIA, and Team, will be located in the Armenian town of...
armenpress.am
November 30, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Really cool that now people are realizing the health and ecological problems that come with massive data centers companies are offshoring the issue to countries with no regulations and framing it as economic development
armenpress.am/en/article/1...
armenpress.am/en/article/1...