While I agree with the point being made--absolutely-- I think there is going to need to be a learning curve for many.

My bad.

message. You'd edited by the time I clicked to preview my response.

Democratic message board, and it's important that they understand that it isn't. If they won't listen to me, maybe the hundreds of negative replies to that Bluesky post will finally get through to them.

AI has its positives, but it’s likely that some of it’s consequences will be devastating for some, if not most or possibly even our specie.

Documentaries on bands, and the weird voice they use, with the strange emphases and inflections, and errors, make them worthless.

worthwhile content from humans. Making it harder for human creatives (as opposed to noncreative human AI users) to get the attention they deserve. And the monetization for their videos, if they want that.

is coming from overseas. Just some people online trying to make a buck by baiting naive Americans who keep falling for their crap.

A lot of it is really obvious, but some of it is quite advanced and it is easy for even perceptive people to fall for it. Then it even goes further with people accusing legitimate posts and videos of being AI when they aren't.

I call out AI whenever I come across it and often block the pages they come from, but it is like playing whack-a-mole. It is like being invaded with cockroaches that multiply faster than you can block them.

I noticed they use a familiar face and have them talking a mile a minute - like they are reciting something in a classroom. That usually tips me off. Also, the channel name is vague and tells you nothing about the creator.

I'll have to look for that, though I tend to avoid most videos online these days. Whenever possible, I'd prefer to read an article than listen to someone explain it to me.

Meanwhile, I've spent less and less time on YouTube. The past couple of years, I've been reading a lot of books. Helps keep me sane.

I read them all and don't recall anything positive.
Just those taking her to task & there were dozens of those.

Did you look at the quote-reposts, too, which is a separate set of replies you reach by clicking the word quotes under the message on Bluesky?

I hit links for more posts and one post with links to those agreeing with her.

Maybe I missed something.

This one was such fun… so I am sharing

— Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 (@rweingarten.bsky.social) 2025-12-25T15:03:54.480Z

Posting AI slop should be immediately disqualifying for union leadership.

There's a convention for AFT next year. Teachers should be seriously looking for new leaders informed on the issues of today.

— Tim Ford (@timfordwrites.bsky.social) 2025-12-29T02:25:15.192Z

I saw them all.
I grossly underestimated how many I read.

responses are incredibly valuable in showing how much anger there is about genAI, and why it's there.

I hope she learned something from the replies she got, too. If not, that union needs a new leader asap.

stolen training data, and with chatbots that pose risks to humans as they simulate conscious and sympathetic beings.

But some types of machine learning also called AI are fine.

Cancer is more likely here to stay than AI and exponentially grows. Does that mean we can't be against it?

Can’t stand his AI bumper “music”.

I know he has used the same music for a long time. It is weird, but I think thast is because it is played backward (IIRC).

fans who are musicians to write something for him.

I remember when the Stop Online Piracy Act (sponsored and co-sponsored by 15 Democrats, including John Conyers and Adam Schiff, and endorsed by SAG, Actors Equity, the American Federation of Musicians, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the Directors Guild of America, the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees, etc. etc. etc.) was explicitly opposed by Skinner and many, many posters here.

that.

And as Democrats who hope to win elections, we need to understand how people in those unions feel.

There are Labour Party members and officials in the UK now who are pandering to the AI bros and trying to give them everything they want (including the use of British intellectual property), and they're being idiots who are probably costing Labour support.

If that bill had passed, DU likely would not exist. SOPA would have replaced the DMCA's safe harbor provision and would have made owners of web communities like DU responsible for policing the posts of every single user for copyright violations. The bill would have allowed law enforcement to literally shut down entire domains if a single user posted some kind of copyrighted content on that domain.

There was broad bipartisan support AND OPPOSITION to the bill, and we were not exactly outliers in opposition to it. When I refreshed my memory of this bill from its Wikipedia page, it turned out that organizations such as EFF and the ACLU were opposed to it, as were the American Library Association, who said it could expose libraries to prosecution. Nancy Pelosi was opposed to it, as were most major Internet companies, including Wikipedia.

admin stuff elsewhere gave me less time for DU. And I was focusing on ALEC back then: https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x591230

that the “what are ya gonna do” attitude toward AI companies hoovering up petabytes of artists’ works can almost certainly be traced to the failure to pass any meaningful legislation to stem the tide of copyrighted works online. There are now at least a couple of generations who would look at you like you are crazy if you suggested paying for music, movies, or art.

Sure, it’s our life’s work, but it’s persistently “free” because no one has to take the responsibility, by law, for it being available for download. Nobody really cares unless it’s their ox being gored.

Keep up the good work. Much appreciated.

Is how so many companies are tying their data into AI platforms and then "encouraging" their employees to use them for data retrieval. I won't name any companies here, but I will say that I have experienced this. When I try to pull data, I get lots of garbage. Our old search engines do a better job.

I can't visualize this improving, as the errors seem to compound.

sell any tech as I've seen with genAI. So much FOMO leading to foolish decisions and wasted investments.

you have good reasons, you should be able to explain them.

knows no limits anymore .

... as a professional artist for 60 years, and long ago stopped counting the number of times I've been fucked over by the supposed "Smartest Guys in the Room", which is to say "businessmen and/or -women" with delusions of grandeur, and a galloping case of the Dunning Kruger Effect. Their brazen contempt for creative people, without whom many of their businesses wouldn't even exist, still enrages me. Now they're using AI to do it, but their contemptuous disregard for the rights of artists hasn't changed one iota. They actively resent people that can do something that they cannot; that's how petty and self-centered they are.