Alright, here’s the first part (first approx. 48 KiB) of the list of further references from my pinned post https://toot.mirbsd.org/@mirabilos/statuses/01KNQD9RNZM1Z2A61AZHG857MP:

• https://unstable.systems/@jneen/116302498173795149 more practically, for those wo do want to set aside all the other concerns (notwithstanding what we think about that, as shown above)

• https://sfba.social/@drahardja/117136649933380203 remember, you do not NEED an illustrating image, better have none than slop… but this thread comes with a recommendation of where you can get images from

• https://mastodon.scot/@AlienAnomaly/116258275386325907 what every techbro considering using it should know

• https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116150709467968620 on the plagiarism point

• https://mastodon.social/@marginalia/116098502707996339 on the brain-rot point

• https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116125146223980748 on the… ugh… TESCREAL point, I guess, and others:

  Big Tech's plan for human genocide and eugenics

  "Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’"

• https://social.treehouse.systems/@jnkrtech/116083770527548518 the fascism angle

• https://tldr.nettime.org/@w0bb1t/115910853597507208 fashtech network

• https://mastodon.world/@ApostateEnglishman/114721376018445495 more fascist angle

• https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116357335430497778 the racist and misogynist angle

• https://wetdry.world/@lucydev/115912618642468067 it doesn’t democratise anything

• https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/114999615783590491 it’s right-wing anti-labour instead

• https://c.im/@cdarwin/115914320802090355 yet more evidence of theft

• https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115760265788529588 more on their dissembling of discussion

• https://corteximplant.com/@m4ra/115803691440852788 on the human brain angle

• https://infosec.exchange/@reverseics/115622628761543237 a relevant prahou comics, also available as sticker

• https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115554484108496189 criticism from a founder of modern AI research

• https://mastodon.social/@razeback/115531398990093591 on the ecologic angle

• https://social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog/115518890876430898 (🇩🇪) Doctolib puts sensible health data into the slop machine

• https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/114987330170413413 … which is super dangerous

• https://helvede.net/@jwcph/115475458905029125 they cannot even summarise!

• https://eldritch.cafe/@Tattie/115471948737378653 it’s a trick!

• https://mas.to/@mcdutchie/115278780610869693 long-term asbestos

• https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115241804708250257 it cannot possibly not confabulate!

• https://beige.party/@maxleibman/114520618508217071 it’s confabulation, not hallucination

• https://unstable.systems/@sop/114898566686215926 iconic anigif

• https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115189490568935553 slavery / unethical preparation of “training data”

• https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115151695574808432 more of the same

• https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/115178318018668062 “Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic and behavioural levels.”

• https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115151682173197970 “AI chatbots can distort memory”

• https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trusting-your-own-judgement-on-ai/ and you cannot self-experiment with this

• https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115100758921146954 why data centres pollute so much water

• https://social.erambert.me/@eramdam/114309822759993528 oh, btw, alt text doesn’t train “AI”

• https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/113386276555849839 the e-waste angle

• https://awful.systems/comment/6568236 thread (multiple relevant posts) about the eso-fascist angle, with a terrifying relationship to why they want Trump to annex Greenland (my [excerpts] in case it doesn’t load)

• https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/esoteric-fascism/ simiar to the above, but not quite as deep

• https://hachyderm.io/@cczona/114518900536403299 a (older, by now) look at environmental impact, climate, but also contamination

• https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5.pdf it’s bullshit

• https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/us_copyright_office_ai_copyright/ (thanks Fefe)

  US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired

• https://awawa.club/objects/93987903-d4bb-41a0-8d07-3610061110f0 what to put into a job application form’s field asking about “AI” use

• https://toot.cafe/@baldur/114410495463114687 they’re not tools!

• https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/114406490519883990 except to fraudulently hide how bad you really are at your job

• https://aus.social/@jimbob/114406766000950223 on dependency

• https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos/114348159778338092 “100+ Meta employees, including Head of AI Policy, confirmed as ex-🇮🇱IDF”

• https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/114265531280810009 bandwidth costs caused by “AI” scrapers illegally and without consent DDoSing everyone

• https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/114217712724605423 it cannot even write alt texts!

• https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/openai-whisper-risks/ nor transcribe audio

• https://mamot.fr/@krazykitty/114179525603659436 its use leads to significantly more security issues (see also the March-April 2026 leak of the code behind Claude)

• https://mastodon.social/@firusvg/114091868795515812 “Microslop CEO admits that AI is generating basically no value”

• https://towns.gay/@PedestrianError/114067667937606778 do not even use it to prove it wrong / laugh about it / criticise it, for that ⓐ does significant damage to the environment each time and ⓑ confirms their path

• https://mastodon.bits-und-baeume.org/@bits_und_baeume/113990541380729891 (🇩🇪) another older article on environmental impact

• https://mastodon.functional.computer/@samir/114014631970707257 the term “AI-generated” for its output is misleading; call it “regurgitated”, for that is what it is

• https://toot.cafe/@baldur/114013196130019000 it cannot even summarise! (one would have thought that to be the one thing large language models were good at)

• http://www.tesio.it/2021/09/01/a_decompiler_for_artificial_neural_networks.html “There is no "learning" in "artificial neural network"”

• https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv/113973564347240002 Microslop knows they’re damaging the next generation

• https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/113969545750172492 Fakebook admits use of dozens of Tebibytes of stolen works

• https://hachyderm.io/@shafik/113909383572730415 companies notice that people who know more about AI are less likely to react well to use of it

• https://mastodon.well.com/@rk/113935547297276697 they cannot produce anything novel (or even exceeding average)

• https://mstdn.io/@deutrino/113772182693397843 what use of slop in marketing, headlines/teasers/photos, etc. signals (other than “go away”)

• https://toot.cafe/@baldur/113724322984825466 LLMs are a dead-end: “From the perspective of software engineering, current AI systems are unmanageable, and as a consequence their use in serious contexts is irresponsible.”

• https://toot.cat/@dwenius/113629651684569770 even one gratis “AI“ computer is unsustainable due to power requirements

• https://mstdn.social/@ashleemboyer/113567433741433301 disabled people justifiedly getting angry at slop instead of true accessibility

• https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/113554112644010193 “LLMs are the new memory-safety bugs.”

• https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/ai-industry-is-trying-to-subvert-the-definition-of-open-source-ai.html Bruce Schneier on how slopbros ruined the Open Source Initiative

• https://social.linux.pizza/@lalle/113370532309892596 one of the (by now several) suicides of children(!) caused by the slop machines

• https://toot.aquilenet.fr/@civodul/113370339503788304 just say no

• https://toot.cafe/@baldur/113373172447099565 because their use in hospitals to transcribe speech confabulates wrong things about the patients 🙀

• https://fosstodon.org/@saramg/113365761968400493 it’s a planet-burning scam in a series of worldburning scams

• https://weatherishappening.network/@wordshaper/113356903751134576 what LLM summaries actually are “useful” for 😹

• https://final.town/objects/17ac3f46-2cff-4a53-83dc-bc625396b084 scammer caught

• https://tech.lgbt/@ShadowJonathan/113290617698486637 / https://mastodon.me.uk/@CatherineFlick/113294299997512316 “LLMs cannot do formal reasoning” (we knew)

• https://xoxo.zone/@clarity/113289517483316507 it’s slavery all the way down

• https://toot.cafe/@baldur/113214687561016279 not even significant productivity gains!

• https://mastodon.social/@jawnsy/113192864281867455 “By turning off your lights all day every day for a month, you conserved about 1 percent of the energy needed for AI to generate a picture of a duck wearing sunglasses. Isn’t he cute? Aside from the fact that he has the feet of a human man, of course.”

• https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/113108955596753698 be careful with metaphors

• https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/113091056784860072 (🇩🇪) of course it violates copyright

• https://mas.to/@gleick/113058537194470078 described as “money laundering for copyrighted data” a year before the python-chardet incident

• https://mastodon.social/@bkastl/112961789576564659 (🇩🇪) a university discovers how wrong they were about its utility

• https://mas.to/@Techaltar/112940344612631126 “if I see a slop intro/teaser/photo for it, I assume it's low quality spam”

• https://post.lurk.org/@emenel/112111014479288871 “remove all your stuff from Microslop Github” (and Microslop LinkedIn, which spies on you every time you load it in a Chromium-based browser, getting thousands of data points, including deeply personal info)

• https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/111226207940194391 more on energy use

• and of course what I wrote about this on https://mbsd.evolvis.org/permalinks/wlog2021_e20240726.htm and https://evolvis.org/~tg/cc.htm#refs contains a few references as well, below the part where I put interpretation guidelines for those works I CC-licenced because the Creative Commons institution followed the OSI in kowtowing to the fashtech bros

  • https://explainextended.com/2023/12/31/happy-new-year-15/ writing ChatGPT as a 498-line SQL query, to understand how it works (just fancy autocomplete)
  • http://web.archive.org/web/20260225211131/https://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/ MicroGPT, same in 200 lines of Python3, includes “training” and therefore reduces model size to be tryable
  • https://not-just-memorization.github.io/extracting-training-data-from-chatgpt.html and similar papers prove the models are illegally distributed copies of copyrighted works
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20250502083335/https://pol.social/@adamczyk/112847107103084873
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20240913155859/https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/112831368601259815
  • https://mastodon.social/@bkastl/112774932819288179 🇩🇪 GEMA
  • https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/112715896771028555 Business Insider and even Goldman Sachs
  • https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112777082678365894 more Goldman Sachs
  • http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=985e277b Forbes
  • http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=986071d7 The Economist
  • https://hci.social/@bwaber/112747571945535110 the IEEE
  • https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/112823809510441460 it comes down to the inept… (see also https://social.vivaldi.net/@synlogic4242/116858708420382660)
  • https://mstdn.social/@davidseidl/112847653136403091 … oh and attackers.
  • https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/116537862178252362 as of May 2026, NetBSD® is still holding up
  • https://mbsd.evolvis.org/MirOS-Licence.htm#guidelines exist

• https://social.nouveau.community/@andnull/116335068815668672 the social effect and why individuals that cannot respect anti-llm policies must be removed (thread)

• https://mastodon.social/@tef/116426764250277484 more on "AI" directly causing preventable death of children, and impact on brains in general; thread links to multiple studies

• https://writing.exchange/@hiisikoloart/116368038680446376 they cannot even do one thing (like removing the background from a drawing) without fucking up the rest, which is forbidden under § 14 UrhG; short thread

• https://anatomyof.ai/ was reported to be a phantastic resource as well

• https://scholar.social/@olivia/116421199865718260 an open letter to sign, yearly if need be

• https://toot.cat/@zkat/116445259957086606 another good summary of all the problematic things LLM users agree with

• https://infosec.exchange/@cxiao/116459805542959670 on who, between “AI” proponents and opponents, really is naïve and ignorant

• https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/116465292654071299 if you use LLMs, you are complicit in the destruction of FOSS infrastructure

• https://sfba.social/@crozilla/116472175706995839 uhm, and maybe… don’t fly any more (from a pure reliability angle, if nothing else)

• https://social.saarland/@fedithom/112455121136790239 another long list+thread of reasons and links to resources

• https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116477233391503688 emissions from "AI" data centres estimated to be about 100x as much as earlier estimates (that’s 10000% as much!)

• https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115259068665906083 the kids are fine

• https://infosec.exchange/@guyjantic/116478760444351678 even the teens are fine

• an “AI” data centre nearly drained all drinking water off a region with two illegal, unbilled taps… during a drought!

  • https://ngmx.com/@sindarina/116558263075661582
  • https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116557757097525763

• https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116563518833219784 […] halted talks on a Microslop “AI” data centre after it became clear that the project would consume half the country’s daily power output

• https://writing.exchange/@hiisikoloart/116368038680446376 to people who still don’t believe that “AI” cannot do a change ceteris paribus but will always ruin unrelated parts of the input (i.e. it cannot reformat code/data without a good chance of doing semantic changes as well)

• https://helvede.net/@jwcph/116113359097988833 it’s not a tool, you lose skill and knowledge, so it’s not an asset, it’s a liability

• https://infosec.exchange/@cxiao/116459805542959670 it’s pro-“AI” technologists who are the naïve and ignorant ones; opponents of “AI” are generally better informed

• https://cyrneko.eu/ai-policy.html blog article about “AI” policies and the enforcement thereof and how to deal with problems around them

• https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@evgandr/116486618535456834 if some folks think that necessity to learn something, RTFM and use a brain before making some programming is “gatekeeping” — well, then they are dumb

• https://mastodon.social/@decathorpe/116490426579083997 lamenting what “AI” discourse in the FOSS space sometimes sounds like nowadays 😿 (same on LWN…)

• https://tech.lgbt/@dotjayne/116491317903273444 you let a flock of stochastic parrots into the server room and now[…] 😹

• https://social.treehouse.systems/@TheEntity/116499431351797858 astonished how many defences of LLM contributions are a flat “you can’t enforce this and you can't actually stop us”, just completely steamrolling past consent[…]

• https://mastodon.social/@prietschka/116510626653142854 its purpose is to undermine labour

• https://mastodon.social/@Cdespinosa/116508920269155277 They want slaves. (Patriarchs, “AI” fashbros, racial supremacists, they’re very overlapping circles.)

• https://chaos.social/@cm/116493351514383410 🇩🇪 bei “KI” ist niemandem ein verantwortungsvoller Umgang möglich […] deskilling, suchtpotential und psychosen […] ressourcenverbrauch, ausbeutung von menschen in entwicklungsländern, umgang mit geistigem eigentum, […] business model nicht tragfähig […]

• https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/116517323058732323 “AI” relating to fascist UK politicians

• https://mstdn.social/@kibcol1049/116521624608253005 stop “AI”-faked voice call scam, define a codeword now!

• https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/116528152756007029 “Sure it comes with trade offs but it’s a truly useful and powerful tool” 😹

• https://kolektiva.social/@violetmadder/116539543239921257 bit of a rant, e.g. This shit is being brought to us by eugenicists who want to build digital gods using the last fresh water in a burning world […] single damn about ethics […] these bots are psychological WEAPONS […]

• https://hachyderm.io/@aburka/116545724365215181 “but which one is the *least* evil?” 🙄 (LLM discourse on LWN reminds me of this)

• https://www.osnews.com/story/144823/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/ article+link “AI as a fascist artifact”

• https://fedi.catto.garden/objects/4f4cb118-6231-485c-9d2d-f74ad9d93737 remember Aaron Swartz, who was driven to suicide for extracting a few papers? Scrapers run by sloperators do it en masse, they even admit at using Terabytes of illegal torrents to “train”

• https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware#stolen-training-data (among others) link to new research papers from 2026 about how trivial extraction of original works from “models” is

• https://codeberg.org/brib/slopfree-software-index another index of slop-free software

• https://mountains.social/@Coho/116529378043380915 “AI” is causing heaps of problems in the botanical identification world

• https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116577337458835399 「Every “I’ll just ask ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini”, every LLM-regurgitated (and wrong, at that! see above) summary, is driving data centres on a mission to “be bigger than 2000 Walmarts, dump ‘23 atom bombs worth of energy’ into the environment every day, and terrify locals”」

• several posts on the Ethics thing after Rust (the programming language) just removed theirs:

  • https://tech.lgbt/@nicuveo/116579904487009225
  • https://aus.social/@Joshsharp/116264707245417459
  • https://tech.lgbt/@nicuveo/116579702740666305
  • https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116585071770277275 Thread, also touches on how Rust are enablers of copyright laundering even before LLMs and do that badly, too
  • https://chaosfem.tw/@Athena/116578993491995353 good thread, more direct quotes in replies
  • https://mastodon.social/@rasterweb/116580590710923863 Fediverse vs. everywhere else (even e.g. LWN commenters’ section)
  • https://mastodon.social/@cr1901/116579493371804727

• https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116581323302861165 […] The role of the “human in the loop” is not to prevent errors, it is to be blamed for errors. […] (terrifying example of radiologists)

• https://infosec.exchange/@NotYourSysadmin/116581590089920668 LLMs are capitalists’ latest attempt to turn software development and products into something that’s cheap, disposable, and almost non-durable and resilient by design

• https://mastodon.social/@celeduc/116584954618185159 it’s telling that hardware for user-controlled computing is disappearing: memory and storage are disappearing from the market and it feels intentional

  • Thread: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116584520306804548 Datacenters are an anti-pattern

• https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116563557179749014 “AI” psychosis is growing worse

• https://mastodon.social/@Viss/116582183134988942 those who present output from an LLM as fact have lost all credibility

• https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@yora/116580476909548162 people who buy into the hype that this is the future that takes over the world in three years are idiots, because the whole idea is stupid (wherein “AI” is just the latest, at the point of writing)

• https://wandering.shop/@aldeka/116579398917966513 invented a word for the corporate AI ascendance: the stochastrophe

• https://mastodon.social/@davidtheeviloverlord/116576128912586334 coined the ‘stochastic errorist’

• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/google-and-amazon-acknowledged-risks-and-ignored-responsibilities Google acknowledged the risks tied to its technologies, then ignored its own human rights commitments

• https://mathstodon.xyz/@highergeometer/116576889640697232 on arXiv banning slop contributors (good!)

• https://thefire.work/objects/b7d6ef33-d3c2-4339-ad79-1fce4686ad12 (thread) if you have ML (not LLM) or other classical OCR or similar, do not advertise it as “AI” these days lest you be taken for a slop promoter and lose credibility

• https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116579055796634826 one does not make art with LLMs

• https://feed.hella.cheap/@bob/statuses/01KRM0NVXCFT80AVFBRSB1G6G4 on rationalism (part of TESCREAL, see above)

• https://social.v.st/@quixoticgeek/116574952286195556 “Can the AI load the dishwasher or clean the toilet?”

• https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116573818588548666 the valuation of Anthropic is a big lie

• https://vt.social/@lina/116572354451838860 on loss of skill

• https://ngmx.com/@pathunstrom/116565726550598652 Gallup (drives so much of policy decision-making in the USA) now using slop instead of statistics

• https://weredreaming.com/mookie/p/1778851663.956612 “I feel more pressure to use AI as an adult than to do drugs as a teenager.”

• https://picdetective.com/ a reportedly AI-free reverse image search

• https://social.tchncs.de/@lukasrotermund/116679683079776007 a “human-made” website ring

• https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116591314412492985 remaining pollution is no excuse

• https://mathstodon.xyz/@AmenZwa/116559040522448617 on professionalism in IT

• https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116593777742217412 on the human factor, especially in resistance

• https://hachyderm.io/@benjamineskola/116656513183367271 “ordering the machine not to ‘make stuff up’ doesn’t help” (duh, of course; so why do LLM addicts not realise that?)

• the jqwik anti AI logging drama:

  • https://meemu.org/@Siph/116663934240947511 if plain text in a log file is considered malicious software, wtf…
  • https://det.social/@jlink/116722225601188311 the author’s statement

• LLMs and the conditionalisation:

  • https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116657411750038515 makes a point for gambling addition
  • cannot find the one where it is likened to (hard) substance abuse atm (or it’s already above)
  • https://23.social/@leyrer/116719483737039552 the “It’s happening whether you want it or not” line (and others) of argumentation are rape

• https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/ Amnesty International calls for a prohibition of “AI” and agrees it’s “unlawful by design”

• https://wandering.shop/@vollink/116671140111985951 LMGTFY is dead

• https://toot.wales/@linguacelta/116600964539347661 another good overview by Dr. Dr. Bethan Tovey-Walsh

• https://hachyderm.io/@mahryekuh/116681424544348115 bad patterns in web design perpetuated by LLMs

• https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/116682673383826121 beyond cognitive capture, LLMs also shift researchers’ sociopolitical values without their knowledge it was happening

• https://mastodon.social/@courtcan/116698760677289676 “but it’s sentient!” (spoiler: no.)

• https://zombofant.net/@jssfr/116668044538688356 “but what about using it for security?” (majority still says no.) Thread worth looking at.

• https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116708238082426388 using LLMs in OSS is going to be seen as an adversarial move that undermines community building

• https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/116725663205605698 Google entered in a legal court disposition that “Everyone knows LLMs produce nonsense, no one should ever trust the output of an LLM in any situation that matters, it's not Google's fault if people read the output of an LLM and believed it might have some connection to reality.”…

• https://www.osnews.com/story/145261/german-court-rules-google-is-liable-for-whatever-googles-ai-generates/ … but that doesn’t save them from being liable for it: ‘the “AI” expressions are coming from an algorithm, not a person, and are above all an expression of Google’s business activities’

• https://blog.johanneslink.net/2025/11/04/to-gen-or-not-to-gen/ overview and repudiation by an early adopter who soon saw the dangers and acts on them

• https://mathstodon.xyz/@bremner/116786259842569522 crowdsourcing “good (no) genAI contribution policies”

  • https://ploum.net/2026-09-09-ai_policy.html is a minimum

• https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html Free Software Needs Free Tools, from 2010 but evergreen and relevant

• https://mastodon.social/@radioscout/116795938482887745 “AI” companies buy tons of books from antiquariates, scan them to feed them to their slop machines, then burn them

• https://nya.social/notes/819ef079106762d66a4ed21c boilerplate is a solved problem, not an excuse

• https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116798647432960567 on LLMs and adversarial communication

• https://post.lurk.org/@mycorrhiza/116800307621732908 “You have to admit…”: no, we don’t; also see entire thread

• https://mathstodon.xyz/@slava/116800243553764171 “A blanket ban on LLM contributions is not impractical, idealistic, or too radical — it's just common sense.” (or you’ll lose the contributors you actually want)

• https://social.vlhl.dev/objects/ca8107de-05b5-42d2-b2d1-e48a4df1c915 à propos heatwave and climate change… ([context, via https://chaos.social/@uint8_t/116817312506044877)

• https://aus.social/@fullfathomfive/116808326398699001 on LLM use in medicine and the extra suffering it brings to humans

• https://hachyderm.io/@hgrsd/116804729038269542 Simplicity, agency and mastery. What you gain from LLM abstinence.

• https://mastodon.social/@a2_4am/116816754167367770 Peter Naur had it right in 1985: “[…] the proper, primary aim of programming is, not to produce programs, but to have the programmers build theories of the manner in which the problems at hand are solved by program execution”

• https://lgbtqia.space/@dianea/116823830717167702 “slop extruder” is a good name for the regurgitation machine

• https://sfba.social/@drahardja/116821142636030767 exploitation continues: “Hasbro has begun demanding that CHILD ACTORS […] sign over the rights for the company to use AI to clone their voices for future commercial use. CHILD ACTORS are being asked to sign away control of their voices.”

• https://social.kernel.org/objects/b659a791-613b-4c27-b355-74850e75989a meanwhile the DDoS from “AI” scrapers continues, putting extra load on already-overheating servers

• https://hachyderm.io/@jzb/116833616723978137 whom you support when you use commercial LLM tools, including freely available "open weight" models

• https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/116834677947217913 decision making

• https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116835270118770044 “a really important read for understanding both what's under the hood with LLMs, but also why it is impossible to secure any LLM”

• https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/116837810194589740 only tangentially related, on erosion of trust by replacing established tools

• https://polymaths.social/@amin/statuses/01KWAMMFWME18PJGZWRBCK84G7 a writer on how “AI” personally harmed him

• https://mastodonapp.uk/@ljs/116849844785345246 a Linux Kernel core maintainer on the ridicule he received for warning about what is essentially digital asbestos… despite being relatively pro-“AI” compared to most of the Fediverse

• https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/116786200810110999 meanwhile Doctorow is over-hyped as well

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61345-5 LLM-generated messages can persuade humans

• https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/@mf_newsdigest/116788590931855133 Norway reacts

• https://stopgenai.com/ Stop Gen AI — Mutual Aid and Political Activism

• aren’t “open models”, as promoted on the title page of this month’s Linux-Magazin, not just “theft and slaves for everyone”?

• The [[https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomics/miniFantasyTheater__Avian-Intelligence.html](Avian Intelligence)] webcomic series by https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy is worth a laugh. Or a cry. Probably both. AIn’t, but is art.

• https://typo.social/@pixelambacht/116855697443111670 “AI” is killing even joy in small things

• https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116852402335308365 the data centre situation is worse than untenable

• https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116849596518513644 meanwhile, password thieves are happy with the proliferation of “AI” built into webbrowsers

• https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116846393674213456 and why exactly is Claude Code putting steganographic signs into things?

• https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra/116844864803984763 the stock market is on top of things, I suppose

• https://mastodon.social/@r_alb/116777114683924349 how do we call when a formerly good person falls?

• https://zeroes.ca/@kimcrawley/116855905060316668 Kim Crawley is going to put out a book on “recovering after Gen AI”

• https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5.pdf ChatGPT is bullshit (and French for “cat, I have farted”)

• https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ (an older post) on the impact for data scientists

• https://lwn.net/Articles/1087162/ “nice repo you have there, would be a shame if my slop extruder compromised it”

• https://lwn.net/ml/all/3291058.OBFZWjSADL%40turnagra/ it’s not about the code, it’s about understanding the code

• https://lwn.net/ml/all/CAHk-=wi7KN9_DYdmaE2chC92EhTrO=Wtx1bPBER-EQfAZ8FREg@mail.gmail.com/ Linus Torvalds (using Googlemail, as a thing to note) consciously accepting, and requiring everyone to accept, his lack of ethics, and to leave one’s own ethics “at home” when working on the Linux kernel

• https://forum.f-droid.org/t/does-f-droid-have-a-formal-policy-on-libre-ai/33279 and https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/work_items/641 show that F-Droid is actively sleeping off marking slop as slop (though there is now an EU requirement for this, it’s in different fields)

• https://github.com/Vxrpenter/AIMania/blob/main/WHY.md lists more problems

• AI generated Code or Rewrites violate FOSS-Licences. Talk at FOSS Backstage Berlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvuiSgXfqc4&t=232s

• https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html Codeberg did the right thing, and https://codeberg.org/polyphony/repo-slopscore helps figuring it out (via)

• https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116853208842075403 LLMs are just a lossily compressed index, and a proper code search knowing the language could do so much better

• https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/116788832176838741 a Dublin bar is okay

• https://dragon.style/@anthracite/116862454641794045 slop is the average of all posts, including shitposts, but also repos infested with trojans and viri, and data from active bad actors, so what exactly are you extruding?

• https://social.treehouse.systems/@gfxstrand/116863470709848833 Fighting with the code is what takes time. Not writing it.

• https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116879954038043093 data centres use up water without recycling; water vapour is one of the more effective greenhouse effect-causing substances… and all the humidity also makes the heatwaves hit harder and intensifies the impact of storms

• https://www.bona-books.com/news/we-bought-an-ai-story ugh…

• https://dice.camp/@johnzajac/116885336150460883 The only appropriate position on LLMs is abolition. (Thread)

• https://shaping.systems/blog/ai-sucks-hating-it-is-not-enough/ “I do not want to be writing this essay. I, like you, am sick of think pieces and discourse about AI.”

• https://mstdn.jp/@landley/115664017714877859 more on the slavery angle of “AI” use (as opposed to pre-training)

• https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116887811741536619 “troubles of trying to argue whether or not AI "works" […] all the while missing that you've opened a massive gaping hole in your cognition and invited fascists in for tea with an aperitif of your fucking neural structure.”

• https://fosstodon.org/@deftpunk/116902414476866600 “Use of an LLM says: "This communication is not worth my time. I'm sending it to you though, and I expect that you personally will spend your limited time and attention on it." [T]he choice to use an LLM for communication is an indicator of disrespect for your audience.”

• https://mastodon.social/@r_alb/116906981066003561 LLMs are not here to stay.

• https://tech.lgbt/@obfusk/117015580063685507 inevitable? what I keep hearing is "I believe I am insulated from all of the negative consequences that will inevitably happen to other people and will benefit personally from doing nothing or making things worse"

• https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116996846246928145 people should rethink the “genie out of a bottle” comparison… or is this deliberate?

• https://come-from.mad-scientist.club/@algernon/statuses/01KXC3R62318J96J11N4CJFQJF nor can they “reason” (it’s just they are just more plausible but wrong text extruded from the model)

  • you can't spell artificial intelligence without I fail in cite recall

• https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/117067238322472186 stop anthropomorphising it, it has no brain, it is just a plagiarism machine

• https://social.vivaldi.net/@graste/116914123524927202 but until then, Anthropic and co. work to actively deskill humans

• https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116969865673520603 meanwhile, there’s an eugenics link

  • https://zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto/117175757841870932 not directly related to “AI”, merely what happens in a country where the people behind it rule?

• https://mastodon.social/@bkastl/116920174544045258 🇩🇪 “AI” “search engines” and chatbots are content providers and as such subject to German media law. Going to be interesting.

• https://fedi.slightly.tech/@joepie91/statuses/01KXRNQB5121FZP4KKQEXD0AFQ the whole “left behind” thing is NFT/cryptocurrency-era propaganda

• https://voidwood.online/@tombofnull/116945715279105914 the kids are okay

• https://blog.bgcarlisle.com/2025/05/16/a-plausible-scalable-and-slightly-wrong-black-box-why-large-language-models-are-a-fascist-technology-that-cannot-be-redeemed/ “A plausible, scalable and slightly wrong black box: why large language models are a fascist technology that cannot be redeemed”

• https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ParadeGrotesque/116951473508477876 meanwhile “AI” is less popular than 🇺🇸 ICE

• https://mastodon.scot/@paka/116957322982736232 new numbers on the dumbing-down aspect

• https://fosstodon.org/@RosannaSibora/117061525631846334 also from MIT

• https://hachyderm.io/@glitzersachen/114958382143036895 related rant on dumbing down tech

• https://narrativ.es/@janl/116962783814249211 the comparison with 🇺🇸 MAGA can be seen

• https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/117010788217293167 slop is slop because it's wasting your attention/cognitive capability […] it's just information-shaped text lacking any information content. The difference is provenance, not the shape or even the words. The exact same sentence can be slop or non-slop with the only distinction being provenance.

• https://infosec.exchange/@securingdev/117050712053760120 turns out using the slop machine to patch bugs introduces new vulnerabilities, who would have thought 😹

• https://indieweb.social/@jbz/117100122281053122 Samsung is also using slop for chip design, and it is going as well as you probably can guess by now (spoiler: 💩)

• https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/117015402042792186 bursting the bubble vs. the economy, get some professional help

• https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/117035283755233130 the bills are due soon

• the Linux Foundation is now an institution of active evil:

  • it does not respond to the concerns at https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/e12330b9-c29e-45ca-9375-9e3d13426d85@horse64.org/T/ (via) — this is an eMail thread with multiple references to studies and whatnot and a very great resource, including more on the legal situation including the one above from Germany
  • https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/117095119793421876 it actively works towards trying to legalise the illegality, after https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/117095833952469912 OSI made itself obsolete by publishing the OSAID, which has nothing to do with Open Source standards (see Linux-Magazin reference above)

• https://yiff.life/@tael/117035234997056055 why do slopmakers even bother? (they have this insufferable need to force it on other people because at the end of the day they need validation for the work they didn't do, and that can only come from other human beings)

• https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace/117044347050819685 Greenpeace calling out the book burning as cultural vandalism, not “AI training” (meanwhile, Greenpeace subsidiaries in some countries actively use the slop machine, that waste of energy, that misuse of art and that neocolonialism… this needs following up); some of the comments in the thread with scientific feedback are also interesting

• https://hachyderm.io/@davidculley/117081354820668280 another person with tremendous scientific background on AI/ML and transformers calling it a grift and gambling addict, with well understanding

• https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/117099801077304311 more on the book burning

• https://cloudisland.nz/@ehashman/117112394559468920 meanwhile, libraries are still not allowd to digitalise books, for humans…

• https://mastodon.social/@amalia12/117053728253721665 🇩🇪 was sagt man jemandem, der ein Buch „mit «KI» schreiben“ möchte?

• https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/117060511412936115 trust killer: if you use GenAI for one part of your work, people will assume you used it for the whole thing. It cheapens all your work if any part of it is GenAI. https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/117072730965056115 You're insulting everyone who has taken the time to learn their craft.

• https://hostux.social/@miodvallat/117124253372870071 “I had been trusting the human person which sent these reports, and that faith has been completely destroyed since the {alleg,hallucin}ation of the AI, that piece of hallucinated guano, ought to have been checked before wasting my (and my coworkers) time.”

• https://kolektiva.social/@sidereal/117095073631546783 plagiarism then and now, misuse in the medical field (what could possibly go wrong! spoiler: it does)

• https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/117099402769496424 Microslop: “Consent? What’s that?”

• https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/117099833929646564 on “indirect” water consumption by data centres (spoiler: it’s bad)

• https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/116922216150959614 the Python ecosystem is lost, and only going to get worse

  • https://pdx.social/@a/117118001448508167 yes, very lost

• https://infosec.exchange/@cybersecboardrm/117127839801910110 Slurping up public, private, and proprietary data is not enough. Slurping up and then burning books is not enough. Slurping up users’ sessions with the slop extruder is not enough. No, ChatGPT is now collecting every single keystroke, presumably for more human-like typing.

• https://autistics.life/@joshsusser/117123223445261392 LLM people as predators, and we're their chosen prey. Or as they say in Ukraine, "the people are the shit the oligarchs grow their money in".

• https://graphics.social/@metin/117123760167000114 the “brain rot” part is definitely real

• https://heated.world/p/ais-climate-problem-is-worse-than-we-thought: a new study reveals that AI’s climate impact extends far beyond its massive data centre footprint

• https://blahaj.social/@maartje/117140965602592816 in case you wonder why we’re fighting so hard against so-called “AI” and its users

• https://merveilles.town/@lrhodes/117139117284367701 “Have you ever loved any tool or hobby enough to hang out in a Nazi bar?” (+ backstory)

• https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@yora/117144136958276589 “Are you really ready to brand yourself & your livelihood with this stigma?”

• https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/117149938975905872 “AI Is African Intelligence, Just like the white students of England's top universities get Kenyans to ghostwrite their essays.”

  • more in the thread around https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/117172792450861828

• https://mastodon.social/@kottke/117151078952883396 found a few words:

  meat proxy (noun)

  A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.”

  related: meatwashing, sloproxy (slop proxy), echoborg

  The source linked is reportedly “the creation of an AI grifter techbro”, though. On the other hand, this explains why this is so derogatory. Do not link directly to the source, it is part of the problem.

  when the recipient is also an AI system, this is called 'meat-in-the-middle'

• https://hachyderm.io/@davidculley/117081240419941145 the damage done by TESCREAList Eliezer Yudkowsky is worse than we thought: he is in large parts responsible for introducing and turning billionaires to this toxic ideology. He's also responsbile for another toxic ideology called Rationalism where they suppress all their feelings, and its communities such as LessWrong or Slate Star Codex. He’s not merely one of the “let’s burn down all data centres” side of that fraction.

• https://rustedneuron.com/@jackwilliambell/117157425179984109 what if we invested all the “AI” money into humanity instead?

• https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/117152114860123580 Tech billionaires would rather get rid of democracy than admit their fascist project is a bad idea. Related: https://sigmoid.social/@spdrnl/117157079234073839

• https://snug.moe/notes/aqe220zzwni2zdtg “proper review also requires someone to have a mental model of the code”, which is impossible with slop vommits

• https://raggedfeathers.com/@lilithsaintcrow/117162280924975607 Calls for “the public” to “own ‘AI’” are just a transparent attempt to make the general populace hold the trillion-dollar bag for a con game / ponzi scheme (i.e. pay the billionaires)

• https://notes.vv221.fr/ia-g%C3%A9n%C3%A9ratives.xhtml 🇫🇷 Les IA génératives sont un fléau ! La mort de l’originalité, plagiats, junk food de la pensée

• https://infosec.exchange/@cxiao/117174531048786400 “ethical” LLMs cannot exist, you cannot have models this large and this "capable" without the accompanying mass abuse of human labour

• https://infosec.exchange/@cyberquixote/117174561297242802 even beyond the material impact, the bias and logic baked into AI ensures it will never be moral or ethical. It’s very design is based on a horrible, barbaric misunderstanding of human consciousness

• the above plays very well into what I recently posted: language is a means to synchronise two brains; if you merely parrot something plausible-looking, it cannot be easily understood, and, worse, it makes the brain mushy

• https://bribstodon.xyz/@brib/statuses/01M1BTGFRA4TAN9W6N8SE0R2F9 linking the deeply fascist part of “AI” to early 1900s futurism and the fascist governments that brought us WWⅡ, and to Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto

• https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/ AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

• https://hachyderm.io/@davidculley/117215194504027368 first 1password does AI, then they fund DHH, then the VP uses Nazi propaganda words… sloppery slope, that

• https://error417.expectation.fail/406/tech-fascism-not-acceptable/essay-refusing-tech-fascism-by-tante refusing tech fascism

• https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such-thing-as-just-a-tool There's no such thing as Just a Tool

• https://toot.cat/@dthompson/117180306961006760

  "responsible LLM usage" is the "clean coal" of the tech world

  • https://social.coop/@cwebber/117192402277427859 several prominent FOSS organisations failed us

• https://post.lurk.org/@emenel/117173291631471357 what does the “learning” part of “machine learning” really mean? (spoiler: storing the mean of the input data, i.e. lossily compressing the input data; no more)

• https://sfba.social/@drahardja/117177553434931602 image sources to use for illustrating posts, instead of slop

• https://social.zvavybir.eu/@zvavybir/116399952391335699 check the TXT RRs to find out slop users

• https://social.treehouse.systems/@bodil/116093694360361788 Our species is literally committing suicide by capitalism, facing catastrophic ecosphere collapse. The few of us who don't starve to death as our food sources collapse may eventually die of asphyxiation when the wrong Amazon finishes burning down. How do you get past that? How does one even hope to connect with people who prioritise dismantling the structures of capitalism before it kills us all lower than asking Claude for coding tips?

• https://mastodon.social/@hyc/116081842345932484 popularity doesn't mean quality

  • https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116151036253902686
  • https://kolektiva.social/@sidereal/116155034249976161 thread on what the average / mean means for “training data”

• https://noai.starlightnet.work/ Starlight Network No-AI List, via https://shrimp.starlightnet.work/notes/ajkajgdut0e60njf

• https://lwn.net/ml/all/CAHk-=wj1rTtCXQVf-_doFT0KbnCDObvuoG0yEv8eH6V+Yq4=vg@mail.gmail.com/ meanwhile, Linus Torvalds is now using “AI” as a threat

• https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-massive-climate-lie-that-will-destroy-human-civilization on the ecological aspect

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuBNDulY5O0 Mars won’t save us
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-026-00411-0 AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model

• https://slime.global/@samkeeper/117192754544620722 on the art angle (only indirectly related but “book-shaped merchandise” rings a bell)

• https://mastodon.social/@Texteundtextilien/117197619343186676 🇩🇪 Erste Buchmesse steht zu Autoren und Künstlern

• https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/117111379335658451 more on the book-burning goal of Anthropic

• https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/01/romanias-new-data-centre-for-ai-and-quantum/ as if “AI” and the current quantum computing hype alone weren’t bad enough…

• https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/117187849052099551 it’s just unrealistic

• https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117210664077040039 it’s brute force as a service

• https://infosec.exchange/@da_667/117205006167048585 how much are you willing to compromise your morals for computing?

• https://social.coop/@foolishowl/117214327888501518 oh the morals… also, the ending is *chef’s kiss* ← also, on sentience

• https://adhd.irenes.space/@ireneista/statuses/01M1F976EK06JT782CF53NDNFT what’s in a code review, really, and why cannot “human in the loop” (noose) work

• https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/116939858992907996 on review dynamics

• https://ohai.social/@TarkabarkaHolgy/117211292795076701 King Cormac and the Silver Branch, the perfect anti-AI story

• https://tech.lgbt/@becomethewaifu/117215768089353801 multiple reasons against it being american “fair use” (with an important correction (it not being transformative, as it’s not human) in the replies)

• https://mastodon.social/@Alonely0/117208338407249044 it's really just compression with extra steps

• https://masto.hackers.town/@kestral/117218389058752415 yes, if you commit slop, you’re no longer a FOSS project

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