the AI Eater Speaks in a new interview.
maol
joined 2 years ago
What a great creature. Big ears, for hearing people say stupid things about AI.
This article genuinely made me furious on this woman's behalf. It isn't like most scenes or spaces are great at handling sexual violence, but in most spaces people would not accuse you of trying to silence and hurt men by saying you were groped!
In the same way that in France, separation of church and state sounds good on paper but means "local government will still sponsor nativity scenes but schoolchildren will be banned from wearing hijabs" in practice.
definitely. plus the woman-hating background radiation of a lot of online communities and media for teenage boys.
i was aware of "left-wing but rancid about women" as a common political perspective in techy fields, but I wasn't aware of many out and out right-wingers in the FOSS world specifically (beyond the odd TempleOS type kook).
I've always thought of linux as a vaguely commie thing but it seems like a) there were more libertarians in there than I thought, b) using linux appeals to some very right wing freaks who don't like the idea of not being in total control, and c) there's a right wing computer culture promoted by online influencers to nerdy young men, not dissimilar to right wing gamer culture.
The above site is hosted on neocities. I've been involved in the small web/personal web/indie web for a while (almost 6 years now, Jesus) and I knew there's a more right wing side to it but I hadn't come across it much (except for digdeeper linked to above, whose online privacy guides I read and took seriously before he started posting about Covid and I realized he was a conspiracy theorist). Then recently I found a neonazi's site on neocities through a Christian webring* and spent a while looking around in morbid fascination.
*You can't join if you support abortion or gay people, but apparently they don't check to make sure you're not a Nazi. I'm tempted to set up a competing webring for Christians with normal views....
Genuinely don't understand how dependent these people are on AI. "I'll generate an image of a skeleton at a bus stop" one of them said (it was relevant). I'll go to Google images, I said. It's faster! And you don't end up with a mangled version of the Dublin Bus logo!
I'm doing this shitey online optional module for my college course because I left it too late to pick a proper one, and Christ in heaven people are using a lot of AI. This is meant to be a class about sustainability
I can't give this the sneer it deserves. More pics will follow