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  1. Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act.

    TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets!

    Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963

    Friends, we got a call to action 👇

    We have the right to know when and how our creative works are used, especially when it comes to GenAi!

    This is why we need regulation like California’s Ai Copyright Transparency Act #AB-412 !

    If you agree, especially if in CA, please sign & share this petition!

    Every single day we don’t have transparency, the value of copyright loses ground and the harms inflicted to creative industries grow.

California has always been on the forefront of policies that can ...

    Let’s Be Clear: Artists & Creators Must Have Transparency NOW!

    Every single day we don’t have transparency, the value of copyright loses ground and the harms inflicted to creative industries grow. California has always been on the forefront of policies that can ...

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  2. re: generative AI

    I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

    And now, you can use it, too.

    Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. 

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.
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  3. Meanwhile you fucks are asking ai for directions to your bathroom or whatever

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  4. Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.”

    This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.

    Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

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