Some photos from the Stop AI protest at OpenAI’s hq today. I think there were about thirty folks in attendance. It ended with the organizers locking themselves to the doors of the office and the cops showing up. #StopAI #OpenAi #sanfrancisco

I know some out there aren't fans of AI, but I have a bit of an counterarguement for you. When you're blind like me, having AI tools that allow you to do certain tasks independently is a game changer. Getting image descriptions, being able to check if what you're wearing looks good on you and identifying everything from doors to furniture + everyday objects is useful. Doubly so when like me, you live alone and don't exactly have someone around to ask for help from. Using AI for tasks like this is reasonable in my opinion, but some other things surrounding AI do have me concerned. All I ask of anti-AI protesters is think about what context AI is being used in before completely condemming it. #A11Y #Accessibility #Blind #StopAI #AIProtests

YouTuber F4mi has been working on poisoning AI summarizers trying to scrape videos. The key? Why, the .ass subtitle format
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/how-one-youtuber-is-trying-to-poison-the-ai-bots-stealing-her-content

This bit of news made my day.

https://www.gamerbraves.com/nintendo-rejects-the-use-of-generative-ai-for-games/

PSA: If you write ANY products for dnd, you're feeding your work to A.I:
#StopAI

Glaze: Protecting Artists from Style Mimicry
https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/faq.html#faq
I'm going to try this on my paintings, has anyone else tried it yet?