This group "The Library of Babel" is confronting the invasion of #genAI into everything we do, seems interesting:

"a nascent, international coalition of educators confronting and resisting the incursion of surveillance, automation and datafication into spaces of teaching, learning, research, and creative expression. "

law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tec…

Their open letter: openletter.earth/an-open-lette…

We are a global community of education professionals who refuse the call for generative AI (GenAI) adoption in schools and colleges, and reject the narrative of its inevitability.

(I would sign it but they want my email and I can't access the terms of service to check what they want to do with it..)

#noGenAI #LibraryOfBabel

An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education

^{openletter.earth}

"A grassroots boycott called QuitGPT has been spreading across the US and beyond, asking people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions. More than a million people have answered the call."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

"We're organizing Americans and people around the world to quit ChatGPT."

quitgpt.org/

#QuitGPT #news #USNews #USPol #technology #TechNews #OpenAI #ChatGPT #AI #GenAI

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism

As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

^{Rutger Bregman (The Guardian)}

"Face à l’IA générative, des enseignants optent pour l’objection de conscience"
lemonde.fr/campus/article/2026…

#GenAI #LeMonde

Face à l’IA générative, des enseignants optent pour l’objection de conscience

Quelque 2 800 enseignants et chercheurs ont signé un manifeste contre l’intelligence artificielle générative, qu’ils considèrent être un gouffre énergétique alimentant des usages incompatibles « avec les valeurs de rationalité et d’humanisme » de l’u…

^{Soazig Le Nevé (Le Monde)}

OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever.

One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.

disconnect.blog/sam-altmans-an…

#tech #openai #genai #artificialintelligence #chatgpt #samaltman #cdnpoli #canada

Sam Altman’s anti-human worldview

OpenAI CEO downgrades humanity in pursuit of goal to merge with computers

^{Paris Marx (Disconnect)}

Counterpoint to people saying that they need AI to be able to create art.

Via bsky.app/profile/smoothdunk2.b…

#AI #art #AIArt #GenerativeAI #GenAI

Latest junk mail: "Your research is invisible to AI"
... as if it was a problem to be fixed?! 🙌👏🥳

#genAI #noGenAI