Ai on Janusworx

2026-09-27T06:14:49+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:14:49 +0000

So we talk about about how AI will kill us, and it seems like we’re doing something, but then ever more terrible news emerges and the talk carries on. Meanwhile, all of the potential horrors ascribed to a future AI are in fact real and present today, but have been (are being) enacted by humans. We need not contemplate how an AI could infiltrate an organization and turn it to its own ends when—today—we have chatbots encouraging people to commit suicide.

#AI

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117341532288751269

#ai

2026-08-06T03:17:32+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:17:32 +0000

Please use AI

And be sure to use AI when working on your next
book or essay or piece of art or photography,
and then smile or even laugh at your own
cleverness when you see how good it is,
and how easy,
because who the hell has time
to work at something, to give time to craft, to
create with their own minds, to spend
years being mediocre. Why do that when
mastery, or at least competency
is so simple
only a good prompt away?

— Shawn Smucker

https://shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use-ai

#NoAI #AI

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/117046395067731087

#noai, #ai

2026-06-24T15:50:23+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:50:23 +0000

“You’re going to get left behind if you
don’t use Al.”

Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long-form, and books without
needing Al summaries.

via, https://liberalsarecool.com/post/818082394090405888/cosign

#AI #Reading #Writing #Thinking

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/116805876002083649

#ai, #reading, #writing, #thinking

2025-09-06T12:03:03+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:03:03 +0000

“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/first-of-its-kind-ai-settlement-anthropic-to-pay-authors-1-5-billion/

More please!

#AI

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/115157249800861917

#ai

2025-07-04T03:42:21+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 03:42:21 +0000

Joseph Conrad Forsees Aaron Swartz and the AI Bandits

https://janusworx.com/reading/joseph-conrad-forsees-aaron-swartz-and-ai-bandits/

#mjbWrites #Books #Reading #AI #AaronSwartz #HeartOfDarkness #JosephConrad

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114792893066654902

#mjbwrites, #books, #reading, #ai, #aaronswartz, #HeartOfDarkness, #josephconrad

2025-02-20T13:16:59+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:16:59 +0000

We await signs of a wider malaise.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/a_big_ai_build_has/

#AI

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114036403064383113

#ai

2025-01-06T02:25:08+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 02:25:08 +0000

Damn you #JonathanSwift!
If you had only kept your mouth shut! 😂😂😂

He then commanded six-and-thirty of the lads, to read the several lines softly, as they appeared upon the frame; and where they found three or four words together that might make part of a sentence, they dictated to the four remaining boys, who were scribes.

This work was repeated three or four times, and at every turn, the engine was so contrived, that the words shifted into new places, as the square bits of wood moved upside down.

…

He assured me “that this invention had employed all his thoughts from his youth; that he had emptied the whole vocabulary into his frame, and made the strictest computation of the general proportion there is in books between the numbers of particles, nouns, and verbs, and other parts of speech

via #thechipletter’s latest, https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/the-engine

#LLM #AI #GPT

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113779035911216746

#jonathanswift, #thechipletter, #llm, #ai, #gpt

2024-07-11T07:47:22+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 07:47:22 +0000

love the idea! have to figure out how to do this on my blog.

https://gomakethings.com/poisoning-the-ai-well/

#AI

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112766749422220224

#ai

2024-06-30T02:43:25+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 02:43:25 +0000

Sound familiar?

That same siren song of laborsaving technology echoed throughout the twentieth century, with vacuums and dishwashers and personal computers and 5G networks and on and on and on.

Yet the average number of hours worked (both waged work and housework) hasn’t budged.

The present-day fiction of so-called AI is the same story, second verse.
The people urging AI on us won’t save labor; they will try to degrade that labor, to further alienate us from it, to demand that we work as long and hard and hopelessly as ever.

Unless we refuse.

— @aworkinglibrary, Laborsaving

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/laborsaving

#AI #Humanity #Life

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112703268806446880

#ai, #humanity, #life

2024-02-04T02:53:36+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 02:53:36 +0000

Every time I read crazy #LLM shit like 0, it reminds me of the #LenieClark madness in #PeterWatts’ #Rifters trilogy.
My mind keeps going, Damn! He called it close to two decades ago!

A running series of Peter’s thoughts on this shit is here - 1

#Books #Reading #AI

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111870949198668497

#llm, #LenieClark, #peterwatts, #Rifters, #books, #reading, #ai

2023-11-20T04:22:04+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 04:22:04 +0000

I know I’m probably the last to stumble on this, but given “AI” and “Copilot” and all that jazz, this is even more side-splittingly funny

Hemingway, on Hemingway
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=10416

#Humour #Art #Writing #AI

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111440961508885517

#humour, #art, #writing, #ai

2023-03-23T03:47:48+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 03:47:48 +0000

“One of the questions I always ask of stories is how they *work*. Who do they serve? Who benefits? Who, if anyone, is burdened or harmed by them? Who is uplifted? What modes or methods or structures do they employ?”

#MandyBrown’s latest missive at #AWorkingLibrary tackles the way we look and think about #AI.
***Must Read***

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/smoke-screen

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110070547663514240

#mandybrown, #AWorkingLibrary, #ai

2023-02-18T04:13:28+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 04:13:28 +0000

Found this somewhere on tumblr.

Alt Text:
@SJSindu

We don’t need Al to make art.
We need Al to write emails and clean the house and deliver the groceries so humans can make more art.

#Art #AI

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/109883792304121667

#art, #ai