Decidme una cosa;

Si ya estamos viendo como cada vez más gente usa la IA para pedirle que le explique qué ropa le sienta mejor, qué debería hacer con su ex, qué partes de su cuerpo se podrían mejorar o qué debe comer, qué ejercicios debe hacer, quién tiene razón en una discusión online o qué significan estos resultados médicos, ¿qué os hace pensar que no le preguntarán también a quién deben votar?

Es más, ¿acaso creéis que los dueños e inversores de esas IAs no han llegado también a esa conclusión?

#IA #distopia #AI

Honestly, there is a direct line between Self-help books, Blockchain, Web 3.0, Crypto, NFTs, and AI… and the Manosphere.

White dudes using staggering amounts of energy (mental and actual) to create problems that they’ll tell you only they recognised, and only they can fix… for a price, but if you don’t pay up, you’ll get left behind.

Espero que les caiga la multa más grande. ¿O puede tener esto consecuencias penales?

Este es el método oculto con el que Meta rastrea sin permiso la navegación en móviles (también en modo incógnito o con VPN) https://elpais.com/tecnologia/2025-06-03/este-es-el-metodo-oculto-con-el-que-meta-rastrea-sin-permiso-la-navegacion-en-moviles-tambien-en-modo-incognito-o-con-vpn.html

Scratch the surface of most ardent pro-AI proponents and you uncover all sorts of horrendous anti-craft, anti-humanist philosophies.

Remember, the debate is never what they say it is. The debate is never about the practical utility of any one tool or workflow. The debate is *always* about what it means to be human and what means to be creative and what it means to be in dignified communication with other people.

It's a fundamental worldview issue. Always has been.

"The question we should be asking is not if ChatGPT is useful or not, but if OpenAI’s unaccountable power, linked to Microsoft’s monopoly and the business model of the tech economy, is good for society."

"Our 2025 Landscape Report puts forward an actionable strategy for the public to reclaim agency over the future of AI. We need to reckon with the ways in which today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us."

https://ainowinstitute.org/publications/research/executive-summary-artificial-power

LLMs are the cars of the computing world: they seem convenient, but the tradeoffs are not immediately obvious, and if you come to depend on them you may find it hard to break the habit

"A Kenyan software developer who was arrested last week after creating a tool for people to express their opposition to a proposed law has been arraigned in court and released on bail, amid public anger at her detention and growing signs of repression in the east African country and its neighbours."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/outrage-over-arrest-of-kenyan-software-developer-rose-njeri-as-regional-repression-grows

This is worth watching as an illustration of what we mean when we say that AI is an environmental justice issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT2JeDCyw

This technology is extremely energy intensive; generating that energy has high environmental costs; and those costs routinely get concentrated around vulnerable communities denied the right to decline participation.

After the whole "I asked ChatGPT" as talk opener I've recently seen a lot of "Look, my kids are using AI to build their own games and that's beautiful" stuff in presentations.

Makes me sad that instead of wanting kids to learn how to build something they get taught to accept what the kinda-passable code generator craps out. What they learn is not how to conceptualize or build something, what they learn is that shit comes from nowhere if you just match your expectations to the output afterwards.

A link, if you need one (if you don’t know his work, you really should, if you are into great literature. It’s like not knowing who Chinua Achebe is, man): https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce999kwxn1ro

@Erklaerbaer When pushers such as yourself run out of arguments to defend AI, they always end up talking about cancer. This is profoundly dishonest and manipulative. If you were able to read, you would understand that I am referring to the sort of AIs that capture and erode cognitive skills, and not the ones used in medical research. They are entirely different things. Next time you want to defend the interests of multibillion dollar companies, try to use honest and intelligent arguments.

Ya estaba bastante claro que no, pero en fin, por si aún queda alguien que piensa que es una alternativa decente a WhatsApp, Telegram va a incluir, tachán tachán... la IA de Elon Musk. 🤷

Telegram announces partnership with Musk's xAI
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxvr3n7wlxo

#Telegram #Grok #IA #AI

@qualcu @CorioPsicologia @giorgiograppa Gracias

"The EU wants to compete with the U.S. and China on artificial intelligence. But critics say policymakers haven't planned for the sector's extreme water demand."

https://www.politico.eu/article/artificial-intelligence-threat-raid-water-reserves-europe-dry-regions/

Docentes críticos con la IA

Veo que hay un elemento en común en la cantidad de docentes críticos con la IA que se sienten aislados en sus puestos de trabajo, pero tienen claro que les apetecería crear debate sobre tecnología desde un punto de vista crítico.

Así que en modo #CelestinaON voy a lanzar un hilo y nombrar a algunos por si os apetece juntaros digitalmente y hablar.

Si os apetece presentaros, citar a que les pueda interesar, o retotear.

#ClaustroVirtual

@CorioPsicologia Hola! Aquí un docente que lleva casi 25 años dando clases de programación y artes digitales. Siempre he intentado fomentar una visión crítica de la tecnología, pero con la IA me he visto en la necesidad de tomar una postura más radical. Cada vez más estudiantes la usan en sus trabajos y, cuando la detecto, intento detonar reflexiones personalizadas sobre los riesgos que conlleva. Me encantaría conocer las experiencias de otres docentes y saber cómo manejan estos casos. Salud!

@vonxylofon I also see my students use gen AI more and more... last year it seemed like it was actually possible to push back against the widespread usage of LLMs, but this year everybody's using them. So, it's to late to push back. But, as you say, one day we will try to reverse all this. I just feel that, if we stay away from AI, we will have kept something that others around us may have lost by offloading cognitive tasks to machines.

@Cyclist Yes. I try to stay away as much as I can, but the pressure increases every day

If you believe in the future, stay away from AI.

At first you may feel like you've been left behind. Don't worry -- think, read, write, take time to develop your abilities.

Be present.

When the AI madness passes (yes, it will pass) your skills will be more valuable than ever.