The political right hates AI a little less than the left, but not by super much, and some forces from the emerging America First movement are getting ready to protest AI’s invasiveness and capacity for manipulation. The org is called Humans First, and they’re trying to have a 50501-style nationwide protest about it on July 18th. If both sides cooperate on this one, good things can actually happen, so this should get talked about. A lot. https://www.humansfirst.com/

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      15 days ago

      There was a lot of conservative outrage over early image generation models because the system prompts told them to be racially inclusive, so they wound up generating black people when told to generate something like “medieval European king and queen”. If only people had realized then that these machines aren’t actually sentient and are just doing what they’re prompted to…