Cybercrab indeed sound much better. If I had the money and the expertise in robotics, I’d made that happen.

Hello, I was in the “good old days” of the internet. It wasn’t the “right-libertarian utopia” that right wingers like to paint it was. Sure people believed in “free speech absolutism”, usually until someone whose first “forum” was 4chan, who demanded the same kind of “freedom of speech” they had over there. Also those 4chan bastards were extremely hypocritical with their own “free speech absolutism”, as the moment they got doxxed instead of someone they disagreed with, they either backpedalled, just cried like a bitch online, or rarely literally went that they only meant the free speech for themselves. People who actually lived in those days on the interne,t and weren’t just heard about it some zoomer internet historian or someone whose first “forum” was an anonymous image board know that 4chan marked the end of the old internet, and marked the beginning of the centralization era (4chan sucked up some traffic from fan forums, similarly to what Facebook did later).

What actually is happening is that if you also peddle the right kind of economic policies for Google, you get whitelisted for hatespeech, meaning moderators are only allowed to act on your hatespeech after consultation with the higher ups. Talk about uBlockOrigin? Banned! Talk about how fascists are cruel in the comment section? Your comment is insta-deleted without explanation by the YouTube automod system. Demonize trans people? Wanna call “bad” black people n****rs? Want to talk about how all women are whores and deserve all their rights being taken away? Make sure you also bitch about taxes, how artists and other workers are “entitled”, and write odes about how we need to “move fast and break things, ask for forgiveness later”. Google will be happy to play “heel” for your “face” in case of “censorship”, so you can have the facade of a freedom warrior.

It’s the YouTube automoderation system.

No, you can peddle hate speech, if you also make videos on why taxes should be eliminated, and how worker’s movements and unions are “negatively affecting the right to work” (according to a former Google employee I knew).

I personally needed the Pi for its Arm architecture.

Because AI is mostly built for tech outsiders. They literally thought that digital art, composing music on the computer, programming, etc. was literally telling the computer what to do. I remember around 2015 someone asking where they can choose art-styles in Photoshop, and what to tell the PC to draw something. Even I as a child thought that you just had to type “please draw me a car” into the Commodore 64 to draw you a car, without all the pixel-art.

I tend to call these “normie tech”. Tech that is built for non-enthusiasts, which have negative consequences to the others, and even fool the some enthusiasts into worshipping them. If only I foresaw the dangers of overtly centralized social media…

That is an underestimate, since it doesn’t factor in the knockdown effect of the more lax regulations having, so people will try to sell all kinds of crap as “medicine”.

Actual reality: Right-wing grifters are already on a “whitelist”, as long as they also talk about lower taxes, lessening regulations and worker’s protections, and also got popular enough. Source: knew a former moderator for Google.

Nazi propaganda: I sleep

Porn: Real shit

You mean those really cool conductive rubber dome over PCB with slider keyboards, right?

It even made “manual” programming worse.

Wanted to google how to modify the path variable on Linux? Here’s an AI hallucinated example, that will break your installation. Wanted to look up an algorithm? Here’s an AI hallucinated explanation, that is wrong enough at some parts, that you just end up just wasting your own time.

GenAI is automating the more human fields, not some production line work. This isn’t gonna lead to an abundance of clothing that are maybe not artisan made, but the flooding of the art fields with low quality products. Hope you like Marvel slop, because you’re gonna get even more Marvel slop, except even worse!

Creativity isn’t having an idea of a big booba anime girl, it’s how you draw said big booba anime girl. Unless you’re one of those “idea guys”, who are still pissed off that the group of artists and programmers didn’t steal the code of Call of Duty, to put VR support into it, so you could sell if for the publisher at a markup price, because VR used to be a big thing for a while.

Maybe protesting alone won’t be enough…

The capitalists owning the AI thanking you for fighting on their side.

There’s also the issue of people now flooding the internet with AI generated tutorials and documentation, making things even harder. I managed to botch the Linux on my Raspberry Pi so hard I couldn’t fix it easily, all thanks to a crappy AI generated tutorial on adding to path that I didn’t immediately spot.

With art, it can’t really be controlled enough to be useful for anything much beyond spam machine, but spammers only care about social media clout and/or ad revenue.

My main gripes are more philosophical in nature, but should we automate away certain parts of the human experience? Should we automate art? Should we automate human connections?

On top of these, there’s also the concern of spam. AI is quick enough to flood the internet with low-effort garbage.

Robot -> Das Bipenböpenmann

Guitar -> Die Stringenstick

To die -> Endenleib

Buy guns if you don’t have any yet.

Well, he could beat up all the CEOs and politicians…

Conservatism was the original reactionary movement, and it essentially sought to restore the nobility within democracy, complete with the different rules applying to said ingroup. Modern conservatism only differing in the sense that its supporters really want to become part of said ingroup.