CWA just shared their research into the lives of the US-based data workers responsible for training and maintaining modern “AI” platforms. The findings are, in a word, grim:
Communications Workers of America
Ghost Workers in the AI Machine:
U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation
🦊 I’ve decided it’s past time I start describing “artificial intelligence” as a failed technology, and I’d like you to join me.
Against the protection of stocking frames. — ethanmarcotte.com
“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.
me: hey Video Call Software, could you please remember the audio settings i use literally every time i use you? software: no :) me: why not software: do u like my ai button :))))))) me: what software: :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Oh my goodness: my old friend Rob Weychert’s just redesigned his website, and turned it into a *tremendous* personal archive for (nearly) everything he’s ever written. It is also: PRETTY AS HELL. The layout! The typography! The colors! The site architecture! Rob’s been working on this redesign for literal years, and it really, really shows.
V7: Launch day
Expanded site, new design, same me
 yay websites yay friends just: yay
“…National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union and professional organization, today called for […] the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to be fired […] or to resign.” good afternoon ONLY to organized labor
National Nurses United
Nation’s largest RN union: Time for HHS Secretary RFK Jr. to go
In the wake of the latest scandal he has perpetuated, National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union and professional organization, to...
“I am here to be rude, because [AI] is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response.” Gosh, this is good.
moser’s frame shop
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
🦊 I wrote about the administration’s “national design studio,” and how its shoddy construction isn’t a mistake. It’s a clear signal of priorities, and ones we need to actively, urgently rebuke.
A notional design studio. — ethanmarcotte.com
A design language, if you can keep it.
 #uspol
what an absolute and utter shambles this is, in just about every way
America by Design
America by Design
A National Design Studio Initiative
Here’s the Authors Guild on the class action lawsuit against Anthropic, along with a link to contact the law firm representing the affected parties.
The Authors Guild
Anthropic AI Class Certification: Important Information for Authors - The Authors Guild
Earlier this summer, a federal court in California issued a major ruling in Bartz v. Anthropic, one of the copyright class action lawsuits involvin...
a client project just wrapped, so i’m downgrading some software we’d been using down to a free account confidential notice to All Product Companies: warning me i’ll lose access to “AI Features” is not the deterrent you think it is