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@ednewtonrex @kortizart Good for them. More publishers should defend their artists. This happens a lot. Authors and illustrators can’t afford to sue these big tech companies on their own.

Penguin Random House sued OpenAI today for alleged copyright infringement. They say ChatGPT generated text and images “virtually indistinguishable from” one of their children’s books. The side by side comparison is quite something theguardian.com/technology/202…

@DrHistoryBrad @nytimes Literally anyone who actually read the book he was supposed to be reviewing is more qualified than this guy.

Hey @nytimes. I have a Humanities PhD. I read and wrote books for a living. I teach critical thinking and close reading to teenagers. I’ve reviewed literally hundreds of books in my lifetime. I would be happy to do this job, and I mean actually do it, if you’re interested. DM me.

@pauldrossi @drantbradley Calculators are right 100% of the time. Ai hallucinates up to 50% of the time. You wanna fail every test?

@drantbradley So the comparison to calculators is actually apt for this reason. I've had colleagues tell me students no longer need to memorize times tables because "they have calculators now"

I recently heard someone equate college students using AI as equivalent to using calculators. I laughed. This is not what we’re seeing in the humanities and social sciences. Students are using AI to avoid learning and deep-think writing assignments. It’s not a “tool.”

@drantbradley Saw a woman post asking for a tutor just because her kid refuses to do schoolwork in class. I wonder how many kids are just trying to avoid work at school because Ai will do it for them at home.

@RBMEllis @TheRealJChubby

@TheRealJChubby “Nobody wants data centers” he tweets from his hand-held supercomputer.

Basically nobody wants data centers. Just know if you see one go up it's because depraved billionaires bought off your local politicians to convince them to go against your communities wishes.

@s_pect_re @ednewtonrex @deanwball Nope. How many times has the tech bros advertised one thing and produced the opposite? By now, every human has encountered some Ai scam casting huge doubt on any positive potential. Ai has clearly done more harm than good and most learn from history.

@ednewtonrex @deanwball if you're placing value over someone's art or writing being scraped and used for training over the vast potential for AI to solve genuine material problems, you're wrong. as a conservative, as a moderate, as a socialist, as a communist, it doesn't matter--you're simply wrong.

My theory about why so many on the left remain in denial about AI is that their worldview rests on a load-bearing notion of “the tech industry” as being composed of vapid morons whose accomplishments will always be superficial, never “real,” always based on some grand theft. With social media and search, the theft was manipulation of people’s minds. With Amazon it was worker exploitation. With Apple, it was a mix of these. In the left retelling of the story, no value whatsoever was created from these technologies. All a trick. With AI the “grand theft” in the telling of the left is the use of copyright-protected data in pre-training. This one is a particularly dangerous mindworm for them, since they identify with the “artists and writers” from whom they imagine this training data was “stolen.” This is why things like “mode collapse” from synthetic data, stochastic parrotry, “it can only mimic things it has seen on the web” and similar are so core to the argument for the left: it supports the notion of “tech bro” thieves—who lest we forget, and they never will let us, have no “liberal arts” training!—continuing their unbroken string of robberies. Of course the “grand theft” notion is an old motif on the left, relating as it does to a zero-sum mindset about economics, business, and growth that is. more traditionally associated with the left, though the lines have always been blurry, since the zero-sum mindset is above all else a *human* fallacy and thus a useful tactic in mass politics of all valences. The lines have become especially blurry lately, as has been widely observed. Anyway, the notion that AI *is* a genuinely world-changing technology, that it can “go beyond” its “stolen” training data, breaks this load-bearing conception of the tech industry as vapid and superficial and, more importantly, of the people within it as blood-sucking thieves.

@MollySOShea “We’re gonna see massive hyperinflation in blue-collar salaries.” When everyone goes into trades, logically the salary only goes down.

BREAKING: Chris Power CEO of Hadrian says “Everyone should tell their kids to quit college & get welding degrees” "The country needs you." “The next 2 decades is blue collar.” Hadrian is also bringing back Pepperidge Farms & baking. “All the white-collar jobs are going to get automated.” “We’re gonna see massive hyperinflation in blue-collar salaries.” "I think one of the greatest opportunities for private capital — apart from public-private investment alongside the Department of War (@DeptofWar) — is to build Chick-fil-A’s & bars around all of our factories. That’s free alpha. Please come set up franchises around all of our factories. We need to eat so we can work harder for the country." Chris Power (@2112Power) of @HadrianInc at Hill & Valley Forum 2026 (@HillValleyForum) cc @macbohannon

@TheNightRichard @ItsMrsRabbitToU No one really likes this culture but feel they have to cheer or be made homeless. Tech bros giving dictator vibes.

Oh that's just great. I can't wait until obnoxious HR people are requiring that for positions with their gross corporate language... "Here, we have a 24/7 mindset culture". Or "seeking team members who are passionate about collaborating during all states of rest and recharge." Or "join a culture where your dedication doesn't clock out." And there will be plenty of people out there willing to accept it enthusiastically 🤣

Fuck you.

@ItsMrsRabbitToU Maybe you are already. Tech companies don’t exactly ask for consent these days. Explains why everyone is so tired waking up.

@TheBrownFuture @KyleKulinski So you want the same education you hate but with robots. This isn’t a left or right argument. My town, run by democrats, was also bought out by big tech to build Ai data centers no one wants. This is only a question of if you are pro humanity or not.

@KyleKulinski Yes, because you want the education system to be indoctrination centers to groom the next generation of automotons that regurgitate the same things you do.

$100 million for some shit absolutely nobody wants. Melania had a robot at the white house the other day as she casually said there will be no more teaching jobs. Fuck these assholes.

@Dodiddone12P @ProvenProbable @GunnelsWarren There’s normal risk and then there’s impossible hurdles. Laws against monopolies exist for this reason. The department that breaks up monopolies was gutted last year.

@MKE_Books @ProvenProbable @GunnelsWarren Business has always been that way, risk is always involved. Most of business startups fail in every country, under every system.

Myth: If we tax billionaires they won't create jobs. Fact: Last year, billionaires got the largest tax break in history. Now, they are literally planning to replace every worker in America with a robot or AI. Trickle down economics is a scam. Tax billionaires out of existence.

@GrtLifeOutdoors @GunnelsWarren You don’t own the robots. Why would they let you make money off their work? They only wanna make money off your work that they will continue to not pay you for.

@GunnelsWarren Did you ever stop to think that robots might work for us? Make us all money?

@ProvenProbable @GunnelsWarren Ask any small business owner. Most go out of business in a year because they can’t compete with companies that can take a 6month loss just to hoard a space at a grocery store while new products can’t get in the door.

@GunnelsWarren What is stopping the workers from creating a business and hiring people? Heck, you could ask a union rep the same question. Same response: Blank stare . . .

@throwaway8935 @BenPielstick @SenSanders The moment unemployment hits 10% they’ll be riots. Our elderly leaders would rather cut food banks to fund robot cop programs than touch anything vaguely socialist. Americans will either continue fighting or immigrate to Canada.

@BenPielstick @SenSanders that would require a socialist govt that does NOT exist in the US. They're clearly choosing barbarism.

@SenSanders Luddite ideology is not the way forward. Figure out how to tax automation and provide UBI as human labor disappears.

@KiwiNintendo @CliveWismayer @GunnelsWarren The first jobs they targeted for replacement are jobs people want.(writing, art, acting, music). You want to do cleaning, plumbing, construction and physically difficult jobs into your late 60’s cause that’s what’s Ai left over?

@CliveWismayer @GunnelsWarren Hopefully it just gets rid of all the boring jobs and everyone can work where they want not the only place that happens to not have ai auto-rejecting job applications even with a help wanted sign out front

AI girlfriends AI therapists AI friends People laugh at it now Give it 5 years and loneliness won’t be solved by humans anymore It’ll be solved by systems that never leave Is that sad or inevitable?

@katieporterca That’s not why they flee. It costs more to go to college out of state. Colleges prefer the students that give them more money. Students flee because they can’t get into the schools in their home state. Fix that system.

California has some of the world’s best universities, yet our students are fleeing the state to find affordable education. I’m putting a stop to that. By offering two years of free community college followed by two free years at a UC or CSU, my plan will allow every Californian to earn a four-year degree 100% tuition-free.

@GuntherEagleman I just want an ethical person for president.

HOLY F*CK TRUMP JUST NUKED NEWSOM FOR NEARLY FIVE MINUTES: This is Trump. All natural, no script, and Gavin Newsom's career is DONE after this. "I believe he took himself out of the running when he said he had a mental disability." "He admitted he was a stupid person. I don't want a STUPID PERSON being President." ON FIRE.

@TukiFromKL It’s the accountability they are running from. Walmart is facing a lawsuit that its Ai system auto rejected every job applicant over 40 and people keep boycotting Coke because of Ai slop.

🚨 are you paying attention to what's happening in boardrooms right now.. Coca-Cola CEO.. stepping down this month.. said AI was a factor.. Walmart CEO.. stepped down in February.. said AI was a factor.. two of the largest companies on earth.. combined revenue over $700 billion.. and both CEOs told CNBC the same thing.. "the next wave needs someone else".. think about what that actually means.. these are the people who spent the last 3 years telling YOU to "adapt or get left behind".. the same ones who fired thousands of workers and replaced them with AI tools.. the same ones who sat on panels saying "AI won't take your job.. someone using AI will".. and now THEY'RE the ones leaving.. they didn't get fired.. they weren't pushed out.. they saw what's coming and decided they'd rather announce a graceful exit than get exposed as the guy who didn't understand the thing he forced on everyone else.. they told the cashiers to adapt.. they told the drivers to adapt.. they told the middle managers to adapt.. and when it was their turn.. they quit.