AI is Garbage

By Rain

Large language models (LLMs), commonly referred to as “AI,” are the latest scam to follow the capitalist exploitative model to sell us shallow, disposable convenience at the cost of everything else. This zine explores the wide array of harms caused by the proliferation of LLM tech in our lives – from severe environmental impacts, to worsening our mental health crisis, to facilitating political destabilization. We also talk about how to resist these changes by building better systems and directly disrupting “AI” systems.

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