Growing Public Resistance to AI and Efforts to Poison Training Data
By
speckx
Crisp on the outside, thoughtful on the inside. A keeper.
Summary
The article discusses growing public resistance to AI, highlighting the r/PoisonFountain community where AI industry insiders encourage feeding trash data to web crawlers to poison AI training datasets. The author expresses personal fatigue with AI discourse while noting that people increasingly loathe AI and are actively resisting it through various means.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledpeople seem to loathe AI, and are actively resisting it
r/PoisonFountain, created by individuals who claim to be concerned AI industry insiders, is a community with one goal: encourage as many people as possible to feed huge quantities of trash data (poison) to all of the web crawlers
I'm personally so tired of writing and thinking about AI at this point in time
As the internet chokes on ever more slop, the one thing that gives me hope is this: people seem to loathe AI
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