@jenniferplusplus I'm mostly at the point where if I even see anything about 'AI', I check out, close the tab, read something else. This stuff is beyond too far.

@jenniferplusplus plus we have to tiptoe around repurposing decades-old, largely unsupported hardware we have supposedly bought and, purportedly, "own" in an economy where 1, electronic waste is overflowing while 2, purchasing new tech is increasingly made infeasible by a megalomaniac billionaire class' fever dream. And we have always had, right-to-repair, DMCA's reverse-engineering provision… it is simply that now a centralized entity controls the skill that irks said ruling class, and they don't even have to Make An Example by suing a Bunnie Huang or Aaron Swartz into oblivion, they just get you kicked off the platform, easy.

IOW, this story is like: "people are slopping up workarounds for shitty software in shitty electronics, and that's awesome"

But the proper framing is: "people are slopping up workarounds for shitty software in shitty electronics, and it sucks that's the only recourse available to them"

Maybe software and electronics should not be so shitty in the first place. But I dunno, I've just spent two decades building software that I refused to make shittier, and often being punished for it

@jenniferplusplus all the “we need to regulate AI” legislators confuse me. Everything they’re saying to regulate against is already illegal. We’re not supposed to need special laws to prosecute an existing crime just because someone used AI to do it.

This is a great example of solving a problem that we shouldn’t have in the first place. In software at least you get a bunch of weird unnecessary complexity from solving a problem in the wrong place (or solving one you invented).

@jenniferplusplus Man, yes, all of this. We need more social contracts, not fewer.