neil turkewitz

Let’s be really clear here. The AI companies that don’t want to negotiate with artists over usage terms for training AI have sought to portray this as a fight over technology. As the past resisting the future. It is not. Artists are contesting exploitation, not technology. 1/__

“Economists at Stanford, Columbia & Yale used LLM’s to analyze hundreds of thousands of earnings calls & record how American firms responded to Trump’s tariff announcements.” Why use LLM’s…& why is this worth mentioning? They were analyzing a spread sheet. No AI use needed!!!

We need to constantly remind everyone that these folks say they care about free speech & the 1st Amendment, and suggested that mask mandates designed to prevent the spread of COVID were a violation of their free speech rights. And now they want to control the media’s content! 🤯

Hey @DuckDuckGo, can I have a word? As Luiza says, “AI optional” is a lot better than “AI first,” but it’s not just a matter of personal preferences. Choices made by users affect third parties, & choosing a product made via exploitation/misappropriation harms society at large.

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A reminder: framing homelessness as a problem of mental illness or addiction has been politically manufactured to divert attention from its *actual* causes—skyrocketing rents, poverty wages, gutted social supports—and to justify the removal of homeless people from public space.

OMG, this community note is delicious… “Real Black cowgirls existed. You don’t need to AI generate them.” @DocDre @timnitGebru @MiaD

My neighborhood bodega started selling Trump toilet paper.

Pathetic & entirely predictable. Hard to say who is doing the buying & who is doing the selling, but this Administration is owned. AI is an effective propaganda tool for authoritarians—the logical conclusion of a movement rooted in alt facts. Elimination of truth is the goal.

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Last night, Trump sided with parasitic AI companies against millions of writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians trying to eke out a living. The rationale is if AI developers can't steal intellectual property, then they can't feed their digital demons. Sounds good to me.

Generative AI removes context & remixes existing content without any understanding. As @atomless astutely observes here—the same is true of those that promote AI, believing that “taste” can exist outside of the conditions/work that produce it. That we can harvest without growing.

Now @voguemagazine has gone and done it—they have us yearning for the old, less-exploitative days in the pre-AI modeling industry. Hurrah Vogue—you’ve achieved an impossible feat. Hope you’re happy…and that financial bankruptcy follows your moral bankruptcy. @PopCrave

If you’re feeling down about politicians who have been captured by big tech and want to let AI companies steal work with impunity, remember that the public overwhelmingly disagrees with them (in a ratio of eight to one). Legalizing IP theft is a hugely, hugely unpopular policy -…

“In a particularly Orwellian segment of the AI action plan (& the thrust of 1 of the 3 executive orders), the Trump admin proposes that, in the name of free speech, words that it finds disagreeable, like ‘climate change’ & ‘diversity,’ be banned from AI management frameworks.”

Now @voguemagazine has gone and done it—they have us yearning for the old, less-exploitative days in the pre-AI modeling industry. Hurrah Vogue—you’ve achieved an impossible feat. Hope you’re happy…and that financial bankruptcy follows your moral bankruptcy.