The Luddites are having a moment (again): they're being discussed and rehabbed everywhere from NPR to US Catholics Magazine to Psychology Today.
So, adapted from my book on the subject, here's a short-ish rundown of what you need to know to understand the Luddites in the age of AI.
Suraj has a point.
"Expecting me to read books and look up words is discriminatory" is for sure a viewpoint that crops up online, and it's very important to make fun of it every time
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This is amazing fashion.
We should start wearing clothes like this.
Let's say that AI book publishing takes off, and we have 10 Million new books a year.
People will use AI to summarize and "read" the books, making the whole thing an exchange of bullet points.
So why bother? What do these people think they are doing by writing an AI book?
Data centers are spiking the cost of home computing.
This alone is reason enough to fight against the mega data rollout.
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I mean this about "AI" in particular, right now, but even just in a general way, I really need everyone to take ten deep breaths and genuinely ask ourselves "what the fuck are we even doing?" Ready? And, begin:
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The Luddites are back in fashion, but too many people still get them all wrong. This is what they really stood for, fought against, and why they matter now more than ever.
NPR has a 'Word of the Week' series, and this week it's LUDDITE
I spoke with Emma Bowman about who they really were and about the new luddites organizing against big tech + AI
A fun one and, since it's airing on All Things Considered, maybe the biggest-audience luddite rehabilitation effort yet
Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats
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NEW: Insane screwup inside Meta. The company exposed worker keystroke data that was being used to train AI — making it potentially accessible to anyone at the company.
The data included personnel and performance info, private convos, full transcriptions…imagine your coworkers seeing all of that.
It's often a derogatory term used to describe digital dinosaurs and technophobes. That wasn't always the case. NPR's Word of the Week looks back at the not so backwards-looking Luddites.
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Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers’ keystroke data to train AI models.
