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@djoerd @haekelschwein causality flows a certain way and it's Guardian as an org that had pre-existing conditions that made them be ok with OpenAI, but point taken. Either way, the rhetoric around disengaging from news is fraught IMHO.

@haekelschwein @djoerd the guardian is just openAI's mouthpiece these days telling us to detach from reality, or what?

Guardian Media Group announces strategic partnership with OpenAI

Guardian Media Group today announced a strategic partnership with Open AI, a leader in artificial intelligence and deployment, that will bring the Guardian’s high quality journalism to ChatGPT’s global users.

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@urlyman it was a rhetorical hook, see next post below

@aoanla money top-down also let's not forget

@aoanla indeed, but they are also implicitly claiming they don't know what a summary is (even if they do know) to trap us into that (waste of time) cycle of explaining, if that makes sense?

In other words, I understand and I see your motivated reasoning and I raise you: I don't have a conflict of interest so I know AI cannot do that

More context https://flipboard.com/@404media/404-media-qvt3vv94z/-/a-Scki3aliRTqz_5qqo3-DBQ%3Aa%3A4082434389-%2F0

I don't understand how or why any person who knows how to read can claim AI systems are good at summarising. But then I realise what they are claiming is different:

1️⃣ they don't know what summary means

2️⃣ they don't care about EVIDENCE AGAINST their views like...

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@EricLawton exactly

They just don't stop with the nonsense

https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-institute

@abucci it's honestly unbelievable people say that, not only false but destructive to maths cc @Iris

@abucci you're so patient and yes, that was unsettling

Category error! I'm sick to the back teeth of wrongheaded comparisons of inanimate objects to humans. It's so rife even colleagues do it. What's next?

> I compared a rock and a person, and challenged them to stay still the longest and the rock won! Wow!

Things thought up by the unhinged & those who wish to dehumanise for profit.

Gift Articles (@GiftArticles@tomkahe.com)

Who’s a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz. (Gift Article) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/09/business/ai-writing-quiz.html?unlocked_article_code=1.R1A.VoOi.CqmTPKAuPwGv&smid=bs-share

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so so so many times...

Bainbridge, L. (1983). Ironies of automation. In Analysis, design and evaluation of man–machine systems (pp. 129-135). Pergamon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies_of_Automation

5/n

We have also truly been here before...

olivia.science/before/

4/n

there is no AI without the human, in any sense...

Something I hinged on to get to this what I describe: the Marxian fetishisation of artefacts is so complete in the case of AI that not only do we somehow conclude machines think, but we accept for them to think, speak, draw instead of us, while also thinking these are (expressions of) our thoughts. Read more: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

3/n

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/05/in-the-end-you-feel-blank-indias-female-workers-watching-hours-of-abusive-content-to-train-ai

2/n

again and again... there is NO SUCH THING, no such thing, NO SUCH THING as automation as presented by AI companies!

https://restofworld.org/2026/gig-workers-us-military-appen/

1/n

@UlrikeHahn @apostolis

"Most importantly of all, resistance can and should take on many forms. Remember to rest and take care of yourself and your community. If talking to friends and colleagues is easy, then try to engage them on these issues. If it is not possible to do so, you can instead (or in addition) seek out allies online."

https://olivia.science/before/#can

@UlrikeHahn @apostolis I don't fully grasp what I did that makes one think I am against different analyses here? So each featured paper here analyses AI from a different angle pretty clearly with different actors: https://olivia.science/ai/#featuredresearch e.g. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

@UlrikeHahn @apostolis it's funny mine is seen as top down tho, but sure, both in this schema are needed — but I am not by any means at any top in any sense