We legitimise the existence of carcinogenic cigarettes

We legitimise the existence of militaries

We legitimise the existence of usurious "banking" system that literally destroys lives

We legitimise the existence of industry that destroys earth life support systems

We legitimise the existence of an economic system based in exploitation of the workers

I could go on forever...

The alternative to prohibition is regulation.
And if for some freaky reason, #Ai dissapears, the only people who will have access to Ai will be billionaires and thats not the future you think you want.

The #AiBubble, if it happens will just mean consolidation of the industry into fewer hands.

Unlike most of the Luddites who are just going through their first #AiAnxiety, I've had 35 years to think about AI and humanity, #RegulateAi is the only rational way to mitigate the #Airisks

That's not just my opinion, it's what the international peak science and political class thinks (Bletchely and Seoul agreements)

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.

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.

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

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

An excellent list that sadly seems to become outdated (maintenance has stalled, for unknown reasons).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

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

@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.

Refusal.

For example, people have sent me documents with the comment "hey please look over this text for this work thing we're doing together. The first attachment is my draft, the second is what chatgpt did with it".
I flat out email back "thanks for your draft, here are my comments. I refuse to read the other one."

(Probably easier for me than others; I'm a freelance traditional artist – people expect me to be weird anyway.)