I Am Still An AI Hater
I mean, you’re not surprised, right?
When I posted I Am An AI Hater I did not expect it to reach so many people. I am grateful to everyone who has shared it online and offline or who messaged me to say that it captured what they felt. A year later, the bad news is that AI remains an active threat, a dangerous political project, and a mountain of horrendous bullshit. The good news is that many people hate it.
Translations
I am surprised, delighted, and grateful at how many people reached out wanting to translate “I Am an AI Hater” into other languages. It has now been translated into ten languages besides the original English: Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, French, Russian, Finnish, Latin, Catalan, German, and Dutch.
I like to think of these great people as “The International AI Haters Union,” and I have compiled their efforts into a PDF: The International AI Hater’s Union, Volume 1. If you speak a language that is not included in volume 1, please feel free to translate it and send it to me for inclusion in future editions.
Audio Recordings
Similarly, people have recorded audio versions of the different translations. Lauren Woolsey did a great job with the English version and inspired me to record one myself. I have downloaded, normalized, and trimmed the audio files. You can download a zip of the collected recordings, or listen/download them individually below.
I Am An AI Hater (English)
written and read by Anthony Moser
http://storage.googleapis.com/pdt_central/frameshop/audio/1%20-%20I%20Am%20An%20AI%20Hater%20(English)%20-%20read%20by%20Anthony%20Moser.mp3
Eu Odeio a Inteligência Artificial (IA) (Brazilian Portuguese)
translated by Gildásio Filho, read by Adolfo Neto
http://storage.googleapis.com/pdt_central/frameshop/audio/2%20-%20Eu%20Odeio%20a%20Intelige%CC%82ncia%20Artificial%20(IA)%20-%20translated%20by%20Gilda%CC%81sio%20Filho%2C%20read%20by%20Adolfo%20Neto.mp3
Ich bin ein KI-Hasser (German)
translated and read by HORRDEV
http://storage.googleapis.com/pdt_central/frameshop/audio/3%20-%20Ich%20bin%20ein%20KI-Hasser%20(German)%20translated%20and%20read%20by%20HORRDEV.mp3
Odio la IA (Spanish)
translated and read by Noah McKinnon
http://storage.googleapis.com/pdt_central/frameshop/audio/4%20-%20Odio%20la%20IA%20(Spanish)%20translated%20and%20read%20by%20Noah%20McKinnon.mp3
Intelligentiae Artificialis Osor Sum (Latin)
translated by Dan McHenry, read by Noah McKinnon
http://storage.googleapis.com/pdt_central/frameshop/audio/5%20-%20Intelligentiae%20Artificialis%20Osor%20Sum%20(Latin)%20-%20translated%20by%20Dan%20McHenry%2C%20read%20by%20Noah%20McKinnon.mp3
I Am An AI Hater (English)
Read by Lauren Woolsey
http://storage.googleapis.com/pdt_central/frameshop/audio/6%20-%20I%20Am%20An%20AI%20Hater%20(English)%20read%20by%20Lauren%20Woolsey.mp3
Links to collected resources
This is not a comprehensive list, it’s a bunch of things I ran across and remembered to bookmark, in no particular order. Feel free to let me know of others.
- Against AI and its Environmental Harms Curated by Charles Logan
- AI policies and informed consent Coral Sheldon-Hess
- AI Sucks And You Should Not Use It by Lauren Woolsey
- Caregiver Resources for Pushing Back Against AI and Other Educational Technologies
- Critical AI Literacy by Olivia Guest
- Don’t Use AI by Katy Mulvaney
- Generative AI Critical Resources by Marta R. Stoeckel
- Mediagraphy of AI and Big Tech critical sources by Marilou
- WorkersDecide.tech — Make Tech Work for Workers
- Questioning AI Resource List
- AI Critical Resources by the Library Freedom Project
- NoToAI.org - How to disable or avoid intrusive AI by Jessamyn
- Why I Refuse To Use “AI” by ben ui
- Projects of the Distributed AI Research Institute
- Against AI by Anna Kornbluh, Eric Hayot and Krista Muratore
- Zines curated by Miriam Reynoldson
Podcasts
If you like podcasts, I recommend:
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
in which Prof. Emily M Bender and sociologist Dr. Alex Hanna provide an ongoing stream of “oh my god this is all bullshit” that mostly focuses on deconstructing the rhetoric of ai hypemongers by making fun of badly formed artifacts. -
Politechs
Josh and Ray are software developers talking to a lot of sharp guests (including me) about ai and its implications -
Tech Won’t Save Us
Paris Marx is a good interviewer, check out the Data Vampires mini-series -
The Data Fix
critical media studies scholar Mél Hogan has really good conversations with really interesting people