https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

[peachmcd@union.place]

@davidaugust @IcooIey @unlambda @sundogplanets @ai6yr

Thanks,everyone in this whole #Thread on #ThreadThursdays, for demonstrating/affirming once again the excellent reasons I left #Xitter behind for the more intelligent discourse enjoyed here in the #Fediverse
Solidarity from Tacoma

Here's a random kitten just for joy...

[firefly@m.ai6yr.org]

@RunRichRun @davidaugust @unlambda @sundogplanets @ai6yr
Also called the ‘double croissant’ position.

[jbear5@floofy.tech]

@davidaugust Gotta love when the big man gets it right

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@davidaugust @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr

Don't think you should feel bad about getting taken in by the slop merchants.

We live in interesting times where nothing may be what it seems. Kudos for making the situation clear once you realized what was going on.

Here's an AI Free label for your troubles to use on your next truly AI Free photography project.

AI Free (@AIFree@mstdn.social)

Attached: 4 images Four different AI Free graphics are available: 1. AI Free Logo with Caption 2. AI Free Logo with Caption and Black Border 3. AI Free Logo with Caption and Red Border 4. AI Free Logo Four resolutions are available: Large (7"), Medium (3.5"), Small (1.75") and Tiny (0.875") Download the AI_Free ZIP file for original graphics ODG file plus PNG files of all versions in all resolutions AI_Free ZIP: https://drive.proton.me/urls/K0M4DNQR5G#wAB43eU9zHM5 Directly download the Small PNG image (1.75") version below #AIFree

Mastodon 🐘 (mstdn.social)

[ashmire@pagan.plus]

@ai6yr @davidaugust @liquor_american @trevorparker That also means I need to find a way to re-do my Ko-fi page in GIMP, since I decorated it up with Canva. Not that I've been actively soliciting on it for the last few months anyway, but, ugh.

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@davidaugust @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr

Took this as a bit of an opportunity to boost the labels, but a serious issue is knowing the provenance of something like this filter. Wouldn't it be good if you had been able to choose filters attested to be AI Free from the get go, rather than it being a crap shoot?

[davidaugust@mastodon.online]

@mastodonmigration @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr that would be nice. I wish it had been more clear in their interface.

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@davidaugust @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr

Would love to see this become more of a marketing thing. That is, people promoting that their tools are AI Free. Kind of like "organic" food products.

[davidaugust@mastodon.online]

@mastodonmigration @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr that would be great. I imagine there is already an appetite for it.

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@davidaugust @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr

Feel like you experience here is a great case study justifying such an initiative.

[davidaugust@mastodon.online]

@mastodonmigration @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr

I agree.

I am debating if it might be good for me to write up my experience as an article of sorts for my https://stuff.davidaugust.com. Not sure yet if that is a good idea or exactly how to frame it.

[sundogplanets@mastodon.social]

@davidaugust @mastodonmigration @unlambda @ai6yr Not quite the same thing, but I wrote up this article https://theconversation.com/an-astronomers-lament-satellite-megaconstellations-are-ruining-space-exploration-215653 after I found myself yelling swear words at the International Space Station, because it's a bright satellite, even though I used to be super excited about watching it. Made me realize my relationship with spaceflight had really dramatically changed thanks to for-profit tech companies, and writing it up helped me sort through that.

[nev@flipping.rocks]

@davidaugust @sundogplanets @unlambda @ai6yr hey, good on you for owning it!

I had to go months back in my camera roll to find anything even remotely uncontroversially cute so here's a burrowing bee poking its head out of its burrow lol

[zazzoo@mstdn.ca]

@davidaugust Oh no, we've all stepped in it online. Thanks for owning it with maturity, David. You're one of the good guys.

Meanwhile, I came here because I wanted to comment, simply, that this is first time I can ever remember agreeing with a pope.

The thing the sociopathic techbros have lost sight of is the social contract that exists in a supposedly-democratic country - that government and laws work for the betterment of citizen's lives and that jobs and the economy exist to provide purpose to the people.

Government and corporations that do not provide value to society have no legitimacy. Corporations are legal constructs not people. AIs are mathematical parlour tricks not people.

This is why Sam Altman, comparing the resource costs of raising a human to that of training an AI, was such a bloody outrage.