RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/117274646059939937
After white supremacist Stefan Molyneux was banned from YouTube in 2020, he moved to the extremely right video platform Rumble.
Rumble is the "YouTube for Nazis". The company behind it, the Rum Group, is aligned with Trump.
And now Anthropic made a nearly 14 billion USD deal with them.
Perplexity similarly made a deal with Trump's "Truth" Social.
Every "AI" company is directly collaborating with Nazis. And every employer in my industry is changing their entire business model to become "AI-first" while you have to argue with clueless, ignorant centrists about the alleged usefulness of "AI". It's so fucking tiring.
You cannot use LLMs without empowering Nazis. It's obvious that the CEOs of said employers don't care, but it would be great if at least the workers didn't brush this fact aside.
On November 17, the EU Commission and @HennaVirkkunen@ec.social-network.europa.eu will host the "Apply AI Summit" in Brussels.
Maybe these EU politicians simply don't talk enough with regular citizens to know how much we hate "AI"? Maybe they genuinely believe they're doing something awesome with @digitaleu@ec.social-network.europa.eu.
I bet every single one of the several hundreds Mastodon users who liked/boosted the post above
Maybe @HennaVirkkunen@ec.social-network.europa.eu genuinely does not know this? Because the EU politicians only ever talk with CEOs and venture capitalists (who obviously all make the most grandiose claims about how great "AI" is), never with regular citizens affected negatively by this?
We Mastodon users do not want "AI". We hate "AI". It costs us our jobs, it destroys our environment, and it enriches Nazis.
I wouldn't be surprised if @HennaVirkkunen@ec.social-network.europa.eu never heard this outside of Mastodon before. On X, LinkedIn and Bluesky they are of course all big fans of "AI" slop.
Let's make ourselves heard under the @digitaleu@ec.social-network.europa.eu comment to ensure they know we hate "AI" and don't want it.
https://hachyderm.io/@davidculley/117272969144279132