What are good examples of concrete acts of resistance against "AI"?

[megaphon@mastodon.social]

@alineblankertz @gerrymcgovern @asrg @danmcquillan

I'm lowkey politically active. When I spot some government entity or office using AI illustration for brochures, handouts and the like, I call them out.

"Is that AI? Why did you use that? Are you aware of the implications regarding the environment? Isn't that against the policy of your department?"

I do this in a friendly way. Mostly, they admit they were in a hurry and didn't really think about it, since everyone is using AI, too.

[thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io]

@alineblankertz @gerrymcgovern @asrg @danmcquillan@kolektiva.social I know that some people make honeytraps for AI scrapers that specifically inject bullshit into training data; both for code and for prose.

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@alineblankertz Not sure if this fits what you're looking for, but sharing in case it might be relevant.

People-powered technology | Stefan Bohacek

People over (lying) machines.

(stefanbohacek.com)

[lennybacon@infosec.exchange]

@alineblankertz
@jaredwhite is also here

[malte@radikal.social]

@alineblankertz Ridicule, humour, memes against slop. Turning the culture against the delusional ideas being spread by the industry.

[malte@radikal.social]

@alineblankertz Baiting data crawlers to poison the large language models with noise and nonsense. I've heard about some tricks to make the crawlers load the same page over and over again - not sure how.

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@alineblankertz data poisoning (such as prompt attacks, Glaze & Nightshade), and resource thrashing (making it too expensive to run their LLMs).

@gerrymcgovern @asrg @danmcquillan

[thoe@snac.9space.no]

@alineblankertz@indieweb.social

I really liked @mntmn@mastodon.social 's suggestion to bring back the e-mail signatures highlighting the environmental impact of printing e-mails, only for "AI" instead. It's not much, but it's something. If I had the courage I'd use something like this at work:

Before using "AI" to summarize, respond to, or process this email or its attachments, please consider the environmental impact and the potential effects on your own cognitive abilities. "AI" consumes significant natural resources, and relying on it can diminish your own thinking skills.

CC: @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green @asrg@tldr.nettime.org @danmcquillan@kolektiva.social

Edit: spelling

[mariamannone@fediscience.org]

@megaphon @alineblankertz @gerrymcgovern @asrg @danmcquillan Maybe they do not want to hire and pay artists to draw. Same happens with music. Very few people are interested in new artworks. Even less are willing to pay for them.

[penguinrebellion@tldr.nettime.org]

@alineblankertz

In addition to what others have said, you can resist as a human being:

• Reply with an AI;DR to emails or messages containing #AIslop.

• Change your email signature to something along the lines of:

Using so-called "Artificial Intelligence" (AI) is a waste of energy and exacerbates climate change.
If you are short on time, there is no need to generate an reply to this. Raw bullet points are very acceptable. Stay human!

@gerrymcgovern @asrg @danmcquillan

[penguinrebellion@tldr.nettime.org]

@hadokowa

An excellent list that sadly seems to become outdated (maintenance has stalled, for unknown reasons).

While waiting for an update, you might consider using this fork:

uBlockOrigin-AI-Blocklist

uBlockOrigin-AI-Blocklist - Fork and expansion of laylavish' AI blocklist on github. Manually curated blocklist for uBlock Origin and uBlacklist aiming to remove ai results from search engine results. Currently supports DDG, Bing, Google, Startpage and Brave.

Codeberg.org (codeberg.org)

@alineblankertz @Aepasek

[tunubesecamirio@masto.es]

@coba @alineblankertz @gerrymcgovern @asrg @danmcquillan
Thanks!!!

[megaphon@mastodon.social]

@mariamannone @alineblankertz

I know :')

Since you're Potsdam based, I assume 1. you know some German and 2. you might therefore enjoy this AI, art and cake themed take:
https://mastodon.social/@megaphon/114714833613291050

[scavello@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@alineblankertz @gerrymcgovern @asrg @danmcquillan Learn a skill that they make “obsolete” (drawing, writing, coding, etc) and post about it, even if you dont think its all that good.

I’ve been learning to draw for the last year now

[mariamannone@fediscience.org]

@megaphon @alineblankertz Ausgezeichnet!

[c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza]

@scavello @alineblankertz @gerrymcgovern @asrg @danmcquillan I do sewing alterations and repairs.

[kitkat_blue@mastodon.social]

@alineblankertz @gerrymcgovern @asrg @danmcquillan

AI is about as "cool" as a red MAGA hat.

Push that "uncool" AI image. because it is true and accurate and it hits. No one worth talking to is still MAGA. Anyone worth talking to, already hates them.

and educate. IRL and online, educate yourself, your friends, your co-workers,-- and, if you have kids, educate them, especially them.

Anti-AI talking points are not hard to find--use them.

Track, publicize and oppose new datacenters.

[n_dimension@infosec.exchange]

@alineblankertz @gerrymcgovern @asrg @danmcquillan

The simplest act opposition against #Ai is to engage with politicians to lobby to #regulateAi

It's so effective, Thiel says it's an act of #Antichrist

Everything else is just window dressing.

[mrgrumpymonkey@mastodon.social]

@penguinrebellion @hadokowa @alineblankertz @Aepasek Just added this to my Pi-Hole. Thanks.

[alineblankertz@indieweb.social]

@n_dimension
I strongly disagree. Wanting to “regulate AI” is to legitimise the existence of “AI”. That is not what I understand as refusal or resistance.