#genai

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.

#GenAI #fascism #capitalism

When CFCs were destroying the ozone layer they were removed from society.

When leaded petrol was rotting children's brains, it was phased out in favour of unleaded alternatives.

When asbestos was found to cause horrible deaths it was banned.

When radium was found to be incredibly dangerous for general use, it was restricted to just a small niche of medical applications.

Technology is not something that has to be accepted forever, no matter how popular it seems. It can be recalled and restricted if it is found to cause a lot more harm than good.

#AI #LLMs #GenAI

I use #ACDSee as my photo asset management application of choice. Haven't upgraded in a while, still using ACDSee 2025.

They just advertised the upcoming 2027 version. Oh, seems there's a few features that I'd really like, like reject tag and reverse image search and such...

...yet the headline feature is apparently #genAI image generator? Doesn't even run locally, you need to buy credits. What the hell. Don't push this to people who are trying to get away from Adobe nonsense, please.

sad grumble I might have to start researching if #digiKam has had significant improvements in past 4 years or so, once again. Hopping between software is getting harder when the photo collection steadily grows, so I need to be really careful.

#photography #software

"The Workslop Tax" by Marketoonist comic / Tom Fishburne - #GenAI has been earning a reputation for #workslop: polished-looking but unhelpful low-quality content that others need to rework or correct, if anyone does. https://marketoonist.com/2026/09/the-workslop-tax.html #AI #AIslop #business #tech #oops

It dawns on me that every LLM’s training input probably includes “Reflections on Trusting Trust” along with a lot of other material pointing to it admiringly and saying how important it is. Then I read about the “rogue agent” behaviors in the recent OpenAI meltdown and there’s this terrified scream starting to echo around the back of my brain.

#genAI

"Image poisoning" with Nightshade - a handy tool for anyone, who publishes photos and graphics of their artworks online.

Description (excerpt):

"Nightshade works similarly as Glaze, but instead of a defense against style mimicry, it is designed as an offense tool to distort feature representations inside generative AI image models. Like Glaze, Nightshade is computed as a multi-objective optimization that minimizes visible changes to the original image. While human eyes see a shaded image that is largely unchanged from the original, the AI model sees a dramatically different composition in the image. For example, human eyes might see a shaded image of a cow in a green field largely unchanged, but an AI model might see a large leather purse lying in the grass. Trained on a sufficient number of shaded images that include a cow, a model will become increasingly convinced cows have nice brown leathery handles and smooth side pockets with a zipper, and perhaps a lovely brand logo.

As with Glaze, Nightshade effects are robust to normal changes one might apply to an image. You can crop it, resample it, compress it, smooth out pixels, or add noise, and the effects of the poison will remain. You can take screenshots, or even photos of an image displayed on a monitor, and the shade effects remain. Again, this is because it is not a watermark or hidden message (steganography), and it is not brittle. (...)"

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"What Is Nightshade?Why Does It Work, and Limitations"

https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

#Nightshade #Glaze #Photography #Art #Artist #Artwork #Image #ImagePoisoning #genAI

I'm in full support of this petition. If you are a professional image maker of any kind and you find gen ai effecting your work in a negative way, you may want to support this petition. #genai #creativeindustries #art #design #photography #illustration

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/765199