@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante
am not in any way connected to work that involved #NoAI but i am and try to vocalize my vehement #FUCKAI vibes

@_elena

I hate LLM powered genAI because of how it was developed, why it was released, and how much environmental damage it causes. I hate the racism, sexism, and classism built into it. I hate how much the people funding it and championing it deride and belittle human creativity. I hate how they humanize a statistical token prediction engine while simultaneously demuhanizing actual people.

Other types of "AI" are not burdened with the same existential baggage even if they are used for the same types of war crimes. Machine learning, expert systems, neutral networks, all that other "AI" didn't take exploitation to the same level genAI has. They were always biased. That's documented. But the scale and the speed of genAI, the money being burned just as much as the fossil field, is almost unprecedented. Bitcoin and NFTs couldn't do it, but this bubble just might accelerate us over enough climate tipping points that we kill ourselves and 90% of the rest of all life. We are an extinction level event thanks to genAI.

@_elena Hi, I do that.

But also @glyph, @baldur and @tante are some of my top recs (other than the ones you mentioned) these days.

@_elena I’m anti LLM, but I’d hardly consider myself worth listening to…

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante you should add to the list @crowgirl

@_elena o/

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante

@baldur is great on software in general and a cogent critic of LLMadness

@_elena 👋

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante if you search my posts for 'so ai is going great' i post a ton of horror stories

@_elena especially for the environment but also other aspects connected to that: @gerrymcgovern who also wrote this book: https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/99th-day/

#LLM #AI #NoAI #AISlop

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante @finestructure

How can a writer not be non-public?
Great story against LLMs:

https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/

@_elena I publicly crash out against it about once a month if that’s your cup of tea 🤣

https://mastodon.social/@dimitribouniol/116210058595372593

@_elena The Author of "Resisting AI" @danmcquillan

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante

I think @alex is better for Alex? Just boosted a couple recent posts about a UW lecture from 4 months ago.

@_elena @mapache
And @davidrevoy if no-one else has said that yet

@_elena @mapache
Me, when the occasion arises 😄 A sampling...
https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/114929904096819843 https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/115250704462263715 https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/115901366483721125 https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/116000100388648367 https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/116192364719763321 https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/116207919954310753

@_elena KarlBode@masto.ai

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante

me :)

@_elena I'm not really pushing it with lots of written text, but I am going to put the fox among the chickens in a closing keynote I'm giving on Friday.

@_elena

I do not post, follow those who do, nor boost slop.

I'm about to exit the tech industry after almost 30yrs because it's gone to utter dogshit... I've seen behind the curtains and I understand what they do with the data they collect... I try to discourage everyone from using any corpo owned platform... not just AI ones.

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante

I'm just a random person on the fediverse, but I, too, am against stochastic parrots automating Dunning-Kruger syndrome at the cost of culture and ecology!

Also you should add @davidrevoy

I don't know him either, but his #pepperandcarrot webcomic is making hilariously short work of the token pachinko fraud festival currently gripping markets.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116206874904164848

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante

I'm sure you have seen this thread, and apologies if someone else has mentioned it here...

https://mastodon.online/@Gargron@mastodon.social/116206875533187784

@_elena

We could encourage people to use a consistent hashtag to anchor a community.

Your #NoAI is fine, if read as "there is no AI"

@_elena

Besides the accounts already mentioned, this on might be interesting:

@asrg "The Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group (ASRG) is a conspiratorial, practice-led research framework focused on the intersection of culture, politics, and technology."

@_elena

Just about everyone with a brain, WE all hope. Most can tell those pushing the slop are extremely irresponsible.

It's how dystopian movies begin repeating dystopian history

@_elena @baldur @danmcquillan both good follows on this

@_elena

@crowgirl from https://stopgenai.com/

@_elena me! I believe in the human led Renaissance occurring now #noAi

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante me to Elena. I feel like I'm actively swatting the "use ai now" flies. Would love to be kept in the loop of #NoAi

A few more that leap to mind: @ali, who runs the AI Skeptics Reading Group, and @danmcquillan, author of Resisting AI.

@_elena putting humility aside, I can recommend myself as researcher and hacktivist, as a founding member of the collective Socialini.it (digital literacy workshops) and as the author of "Scritture digitali. Dai social media all'IA e all'editing genetico" (Meltemi, 2025), and as the translator of the Italian edition of "The AI Con" by @emilymbender and @alex which is going to be published on March 17 as "L'inganno dell'intelligenza artificiale. Come difenderci da Big Tech e costruire il futuro che vogliamo" (Fazi Editore). 🙂

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante
👉 @tunubesecamirio

@_elena
I suppose quitting my job over it yesterday and being quite vocal about it, especially over the last two days could qualify me 😅 I have a history of being actively anti-AI to the point of writing my transcripts and timecode them by hand 🫠

Hi! I’d like to nominate myself for your list. I’m not nearly as high-profile as many of the folks that you mentioned or who are being recommended, but I am a practicing computer scientist trained in AI, and I have managed to go viral on LinkedIn with my criticism of AI a few times (haha). I post pretty regularly on the fediverse about AI, usually critically though sometimes "philosophically" or politically.

Some blog posts:

• The failscene
• Another AI Hype Cycle
• Word calculators don't add up

• AI as “anti imagination”
• The problem of thinking of everything as data
• An automated scientist would be a random number generator
• AI as eating your seed corn

@_elena May I nominate myself? I have been using the hashtag #AITeaParty for my efforts to not use it directly or indirectly. I've also blogged yesterday about my depressing experience in going to my first in person developer meeting in years.

https://evilgeniuschronicles.org/posts/2026/03/10/just-have-claude-code-it/

@_elena Seems that Alex Hanna is more active at https://dair-community.social/@alex

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante Has anyone linked @kenobit ?

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante I don't want you to follow me, but I call out and resist "LLM AI" and related intellectual informational slop.
- It solves no problem I have
- It is a glorified search engine, not intelligence
- Pattern matching is not intelligence, ML can be good, but trust it with your life at your peril.
- All software is "Artificial Intelligence"

@_elena It’s funny, I only really see people who are intensely hardline anti-AI on Mastodon, and only enthusiastic shortsighted AI bros on LinkedIn. Where’s the sensible center? (or people that don’t talk about AI at all, even better!)

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante I have been posting about this topic -- see https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/12/17/AIs-unpaid-debt-how-llm-scrapers-destroy-the-social-contract-of-open-source.html for a sample.

Also boost stuff I see. 🙂

@_elena I complain a lot about being forced to use LLMs at work
@jacel even more so
Not sure if that's what you're looking for, but we're here too

@_elena

They don't seem to be very active in the fedi, but @randomwalker and @sayashk are Princeton computer scientists who cowrote the excellent book AI Snake Oil and now and now maintain https://www.normaltech.ai/p/ai-as-normal-technology

@timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante

@_elena @DAIR 🙋‍♀️ If that helps, I was quoted in this article calling AI the archenemesis of data privacy: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/signal-creator-moxie-marlinspike-wants-to-do-for-ai-what-he-did-for-messaging/

'Data privacy expert Em (she keeps her last name off the Internet) called AI assistants the “archnemesis” of data privacy because their utility relies on assembling massive amounts of data from myriad sources, including individuals.

“AI models are inherent data collectors,” she told Ars. “They rely on large data collection for training, improvements, operations, and customizations. More often than not, this data is collected without clear and informed consent (from unknowing training subjects or from platform users), and is sent to and accessed by a private company with many incentives to share and monetize this data.”'

@_elena Over here! I'm migrating to @leoschuldiner23@beige.party so, be my guest 😊 #NoAI (and as a musician, especially in music industry). Cheers from Chile!

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante He’s not in the Fediverse I think but I love his takes on all stories AI: https://pivot-to-ai.com/rss/

@_elena I do, in a very my corner of the world, which is academic libraries, kind of way. Snark, mostly, but also the occasional academic journal article or presentation.

@_elena doing what i can

https://ai-sucks-actually.fyi/

@_elena doing what i can

https://ai-sucks-actually.fyi/

@_elena I think everyone I follow is #NoAI lol, I went from teaching data sci and physics to teaching how to circumvent/remove #LLMs in data sci and physics... it's tough for the kids trying to learn through this slop 🙃 One thing I think helps a bit is to specify when dragging #LLM_AI vs #DecisionTree_AI #NeuralNet_AI or #Statistical_AI etc. Alot of phys/ data sci here uses #AI as a catchall for all of #datascience including #MachineLearning so it can get confusing (is likely meant to be lol).

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante

I would like to mention @Felienne to you.

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante Add Aurora @tunubesecamirio - she is an amazing activist and public speaker with profound crutucism on AI for ecosocial reasons.

The name of their activist project, Tu Nube Seca Mi Rio, is so wellchosen, so visual for the damage these hyperscalers are making. Worth checking a translator for, careful with the LLMs though ;-)

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante from your list @danmcquillan is missing :)

@_elena in French, there’s the formidable @flomaraninchi !

@_elena @anthony is a must as well. https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

@_elena

Also @danmcquillan of course.
@flomaraninchi , @Khrys

(And my bio makes it clear what side I'm on)

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante not sure if this counts, but I am adamantly #NoAI! all of my videos on @groupnebula563@cuddly.tube are proudly AI-free and my https://hit-counter.net project won’t provide counters to sites containing AI content! :)

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante I'd like to recommend @pivot-to-ai.com pivot to ai and is incomparable author, @davidgerard

@susankayequinn

@_elena some great accounts(mainly in Spanish) are @tunubesecamirio @criticalswitch @arteesetica @ana_valdi

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @jaredwhite @tante I would clarify also that I am not quite #NoAI in terms of AI tech, but I am definitely opposed to the *AI industry* and this hype wave. There may be various useful things from this tech, but the net version of things with it being forced upon society right now in this hype wave is that everything is getting much worse, and sickeningly so.

Several more pieces need to be added to the puzzle to make "AI" tech more useful, and I'm also simply opposed to a direction in society that dismisses and devalues creative endeavors, which a lot of this hype is putting at the center of itself. Creativity is what makes life largely worthwhile. I'm not willing to give that up.

I have no problem with OpenImageDenoiser in Blender, which speeds up renders through machine learning, and in no way devalues creativity. But something which made it so I just typed a few words into Blender and it did all my artwork for me, I would oppose.