Denial

Thoughts after breakout at AC meeting.

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A vastly incomplete list of the many significant issues with artificial intelligence.

The current wave of generative AI has unpleasant side effects: large-scale copyright infringements, environmental impact and bias. For most uses today, it makes sense to me to default to not using AI.

Large language models and their associated bots are bad for the indie web in at least three ways: 1) their logistical consequences are bad for bandwidth, 2) their social consequences are bad for guides, and 3) their citational consequences are bad for surfability.

I'm unsure about the future of this industry. Mainly thanks to vibe coding.

Stop with individual carbon footprints already

Notes to my future self about AI, the web, and what it means to keep making things.

A vastly incomplete list of the many significant issues with artificial intelligence.

AI policy

Thoughts after breakout at AC meeting.

There’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking our servers wave after wave, systematically requesting page after page, relentlessly filling their data stores while we watch our access logs fill up.