AI

A Straight Statement on #plzdontkillus, plzdontkillus.online, and Where We Stand With the Berkeley Project

To Aella, Ronny Fernandez, whoever's running plzdontkillus.com day to day; this one's for you. It's also for anyone who Googles this and wants to know what's actually going on.

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"Nobody in this scene asks whether you can pay your rent while you're deciding whether AI has ended art. That's a luxury question. I'm not asking it from a position of luxury. I'm asking it from a flat in Cardiff"

It Was Never the Tool

Stealing photographs was happening long before AI had a name people recognised. The internet just made it free and instant.

Google's AI Search Is Ungovernable — And Nobody Is Saying It Loudly Enough

Google is not a search engine behaving badly. It is a publisher operating without the obligations that publishing carries.

Everyone Is Buying Your Cognition

The tell, always, is who benefits from the conflation. When someone tells you all criticism of a trillion-dollar industry is bought, ask who’s buying the claim that it’s bought.

So You Don't Understand How Your Car Actually Works?

You can levy taxes on a fortune. You cannot tax your way into an understanding of a transformer architecture. The wealth of the future is guarded by a competence gap, and that gap is the one variable the tech elite is perfectly happy for you to ignore while you rage at their net worth.