alt-text for thumbnail in case it embeds: it is an image of a queer flag with an infinity symbol, on a drawn wooden background with the words “autistic people mistaken for AI” on it
I dunk on LLM hype a lot. Even so, I utterly despise the liberal tactic of accusing people they don’t like of being LLM products. It’s nearly identical to the chud tactic of calling people they don’t like “NPCs.”
Trolls, bots, NPC’s, ai, it’s all the exact same attack - “this isn’t a real person so I don’t have to deal with their argument.” It’s a thought terminating cliche so they don’t have to deal with the cognitive dissonance.
By default I just assume that people with predictable and exhausting cliches are just indoctrinated that thoroughly, and are still people.
The most blatant example of that is how many
glazers, going back at least a decade, will say almost word for word “but humans must become an interplanetary species” to run interference for whatever environmental devastation, resource plundering, or worker abusing skullduggery their savior of humanity was up to today.if i’m being completely honest i tell this to myself when i read something reactionary or hateful … it helps to believe that they’re a Koch bot or that they’re being paid by rich assholes. maybe that’s not something i should do?
People are quite capable of bigotry, hate, and ignorance.
It arguably makes us more vulnerable to bad people if we assume bad people simply don’t exist.
I’ve gotten this to a point where someone on my Steam friends list calls me an “AI” as a nickname.
yeah ive had similar experiences, but now with so many spaces threatening to ban “AI” I feel like my access to the internet is going to be massively restricted
Eewwww! The fuck is wrong with people?!
ew yourself, I like it
Well, to each their own. I guess if you’re close with someone… I mean, I tease my partner about some endearing autism traits, and she does the same about my ADHD. Maybe I’m misjudging it because it’s a
platform, and I reflexively do not assume charitable intentions.
Eewwww! The fuck is wrong with people?!
The outrage about AI has definitely caught a lot of innocent people and artists up in it which is very bad.
Makes little sense to me to fight AI in a way that hurts real people.
but that’s the thing, the only way you can “fight AI” is by hurting real people and I won’t be a willing sacrifice
so what should our approach to AI be? you say there is no way to ‘fight AI’ (does this mean any criticism of AI or something more specific?) without hurting ‘real people’, do you intend to say that to ‘fight AI’ is ableist in itself?
This is why I only attack AI at the data center!
I embrace the robot label, I have been running an Engine Heart campaign for over 2 years
Honestly, it’s pretty frustrating to keep hearing this. Just because I communicate differently or don’t express emotions the same way others do, it doesn’t mean I’m some kind of robot or AI. I’m a human being with thoughts, feelings, and a brain that works its own way. It’s exhausting to have to constantly prove that I’m not emotionless or cold just because I don’t communicate the way people expect.
Being autistic means I process things differently—my emotions aren’t always obvious, and I don’t always use the same social cues. That doesn’t mean I’m incapable of connection or that I’m some kind of machine. It’s upsetting that people jump to that conclusion instead of taking the time to understand that neurodiversity is a thing, and not everyone thinks or talks the same way.
It’s dehumanizing, and it needs to stop.
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I generated this response with ChatGPT
ironically the audio in this video does sound a bit like text-to-speech. Not because of the intonation but becuase of how it was edited/filtered.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
