Anthony Moser
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Anthony Moser
@anthonymoser.com
· Aug 27
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
this is actually the correct response whenever someone tries to read you synthetic text
Let the record show: Shortly after Manisha attempted to “roast” me using Grok, I asked her to leave my office:
Elon Musk Said Grok’s Roasts Would Be ‘Epic’ at Parties—So I Tried It on My Coworkers
It went about as well as you’d expect.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
this is actually the correct response whenever someone tries to read you synthetic text
"dear carlos, thank you for bringing heavy equipment to force people out of the park and back onto the streets, minus their possessions. xoxo comic sams"
FOIA tuesday snack
a text from Alderman Samantha Nugent to CEO of the Chicago Park District, Carlos Ramirez Rosa
she is thanking him for a job well done for a violent removal of unhoused people in legion park
a text from Alderman Samantha Nugent to CEO of the Chicago Park District, Carlos Ramirez Rosa
she is thanking him for a job well done for a violent removal of unhoused people in legion park
November 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"dear carlos, thank you for bringing heavy equipment to force people out of the park and back onto the streets, minus their possessions. xoxo comic sams"
haven't read this yet but i like to say they are "structurally indifferent to truth" so i think I'll like it
In "Rethinking Error," historian Johan Fredrikzon goes to the very heart of a large language model's incapacity to "know": a problem the industry likes to call hallucinations, but which Fredrikzon calls "epistemological indifference."
Link: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Link: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
Rethinking Error: “Hallucinations” and Epistemological Indifference | Critical AI | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
haven't read this yet but i like to say they are "structurally indifferent to truth" so i think I'll like it
gen ctrl-z
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
gen ctrl-z
And now you're baaaaack
from outer space
from outer space
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
And now you're baaaaack
from outer space
from outer space
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I should really write about this in more length but I have been increasingly bummed out by people's reactions to robotaxis, like "well, at least they're safer than human drivers". Even if that were true (it's, at best, complicated) it's such an impoverished view of what is possible. (cont'd) /
incidentally, this is precisely what everybody said would happen with robotaxis, huge numbers of empty vehicles clogging up streets.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I should really write about this in more length but I have been increasingly bummed out by people's reactions to robotaxis, like "well, at least they're safer than human drivers". Even if that were true (it's, at best, complicated) it's such an impoverished view of what is possible. (cont'd) /
Dammit. I retract any clever memes
the big problem with that Adversarial Poetry versus AI paper is that they did half the work with chatbots and not humans.
they translated prompts into poems using chatbots.
then they judged how well the poems jailbroke the chatbots using other chatbots to do the judging?!
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they translated prompts into poems using chatbots.
then they judged how well the poems jailbroke the chatbots using other chatbots to do the judging?!
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November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Dammit. I retract any clever memes
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The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned, Charlie Brown
The grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage, Charlie Brown
At least the four of them are safe at last.
AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet ... AM has won, simply ... he has taken his revenge ...
I have no mouth. And I must scream, Charlie Brown.
AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet ... AM has won, simply ... he has taken his revenge ...
I have no mouth. And I must scream, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned, Charlie Brown
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researchers, press and non-profits in this city slept on CPS being a driver of slow death, they fixated on fast death by CPD
Adam Toledo was a kid who was operated upon by systems of power, who didn't get supports for disability in his first elementary school or his second and was foreclosed upon
Adam Toledo was a kid who was operated upon by systems of power, who didn't get supports for disability in his first elementary school or his second and was foreclosed upon
November 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
researchers, press and non-profits in this city slept on CPS being a driver of slow death, they fixated on fast death by CPD
Adam Toledo was a kid who was operated upon by systems of power, who didn't get supports for disability in his first elementary school or his second and was foreclosed upon
Adam Toledo was a kid who was operated upon by systems of power, who didn't get supports for disability in his first elementary school or his second and was foreclosed upon
"the problem with surveillance tools is that I am not guaranteed access to surveillance data for research" says researcher
this piece is a layer cake of bad frames, bad inferences, and bad faith and i'm surprised it's from today instead of ten years ago
this piece is a layer cake of bad frames, bad inferences, and bad faith and i'm surprised it's from today instead of ten years ago
Rewiring city's technology ties following ShotSpotter saga
At a moment when an authoritarian president is seeking every tool possible to target his perceived political enemies, there is no better time for Chicago to rethink how it does business with technolog...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"the problem with surveillance tools is that I am not guaranteed access to surveillance data for research" says researcher
this piece is a layer cake of bad frames, bad inferences, and bad faith and i'm surprised it's from today instead of ten years ago
this piece is a layer cake of bad frames, bad inferences, and bad faith and i'm surprised it's from today instead of ten years ago
I can see the confusion. He thinks it's a machine that makes fun of people but actually it's a mockery of human life
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I can see the confusion. He thinks it's a machine that makes fun of people but actually it's a mockery of human life
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We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold, Charlie Brown
The grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage, Charlie Brown
At least the four of them are safe at last.
AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet ... AM has won, simply ... he has taken his revenge ...
I have no mouth. And I must scream, Charlie Brown.
AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet ... AM has won, simply ... he has taken his revenge ...
I have no mouth. And I must scream, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold, Charlie Brown
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Media literacy is down, so to be clear, when the WSJ writes “Ultimately, the fact pattern Meta relies on to meet its conflicting objectives strains credibility” about your accounting practices and runs an accompanying flowchart, that is the equivalent of a 500-foot neon sign reading “FRAUD”
This feels like one of those stories you're going to look at a year from now and say to yourself, "Why didn't I move more of my portfolio into cash?" **
** (This post is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as financial or any other advice.)
🎁
www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
** (This post is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as financial or any other advice.)
🎁
www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Media literacy is down, so to be clear, when the WSJ writes “Ultimately, the fact pattern Meta relies on to meet its conflicting objectives strains credibility” about your accounting practices and runs an accompanying flowchart, that is the equivalent of a 500-foot neon sign reading “FRAUD”
The grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage, Charlie Brown
At least the four of them are safe at last.
AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet ... AM has won, simply ... he has taken his revenge ...
I have no mouth. And I must scream, Charlie Brown.
AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet ... AM has won, simply ... he has taken his revenge ...
I have no mouth. And I must scream, Charlie Brown.
His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage, Charlie Brown
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Like, the very first rule of doing anything at all creative is *you have to give a fuck about it*
Using genAI is proof you don't.
Using genAI is proof you don't.
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Like, the very first rule of doing anything at all creative is *you have to give a fuck about it*
Using genAI is proof you don't.
Using genAI is proof you don't.
somebody get me a livestream of bear stearns
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 PM
somebody get me a livestream of bear stearns
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The water usage argument is a political/marketing argument disguised as an empirical one. It makes my brain glaze over, so while I think it's important to understand the resource usage of LLMs, it's not my ministry.
November 24, 2025 at 3:16 AM
The water usage argument is a political/marketing argument disguised as an empirical one. It makes my brain glaze over, so while I think it's important to understand the resource usage of LLMs, it's not my ministry.
this correction might be a compelling reason to change my position on AI if:
a) environmental harm was the only issue AND
b) it was otherwise super useful AND
c) it was easy to get right instead of hard to estimate at all
but none of that is true so I don't think this error changes anything
a) environmental harm was the only issue AND
b) it was otherwise super useful AND
c) it was easy to get right instead of hard to estimate at all
but none of that is true so I don't think this error changes anything
main thought about the Empire of AI correction situation is that it sure seems really damn hard to get straight info about these datacenters and their resource footprints if it took piecing together hundreds of disparate sources over like 5 years to arrive at what turned out to be inaccurate numbers
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
this correction might be a compelling reason to change my position on AI if:
a) environmental harm was the only issue AND
b) it was otherwise super useful AND
c) it was easy to get right instead of hard to estimate at all
but none of that is true so I don't think this error changes anything
a) environmental harm was the only issue AND
b) it was otherwise super useful AND
c) it was easy to get right instead of hard to estimate at all
but none of that is true so I don't think this error changes anything
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I *love* the torn one that just has "you don't have to accept this future" written in regular handwriting. That's what I keep repeating to anyone who will listen to me at my institution. We don't have to participate in reinforcing this one possible future; there are others we can imagine and make.
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I *love* the torn one that just has "you don't have to accept this future" written in regular handwriting. That's what I keep repeating to anyone who will listen to me at my institution. We don't have to participate in reinforcing this one possible future; there are others we can imagine and make.
less than half? come on people we can do this
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 24, 2025 at 2:11 AM
less than half? come on people we can do this
this piece is imo extremely credulous about OpenAI's claims regarding both their models and their intentions, and they *still* come off as craven and indifferent
Another incredibly important @kashhill piece on chatbots and delusions: What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
this piece is imo extremely credulous about OpenAI's claims regarding both their models and their intentions, and they *still* come off as craven and indifferent
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People "opposed to the data center shared concerns about transparency, asked board members if they had signed non-disclosure agreements, and decried 'tech billionaires' coming into their rural community. Many are worried about potential impacts to the environment, groundwater and electricity rates."
Facebook owner’s $1B data center project prompts Michigan town to enact 6-month pause
A controversial proposal for a hyperscale data center, reportedly backed by tech giant Meta, has faced pushback in an historically rural Michigan community.
www.mlive.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
People "opposed to the data center shared concerns about transparency, asked board members if they had signed non-disclosure agreements, and decried 'tech billionaires' coming into their rural community. Many are worried about potential impacts to the environment, groundwater and electricity rates."
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See also @hypervisible.blacksky.app 's point that these are all "technologies of isolation"
techtonic.fm/episodes/202...
techtonic.fm/episodes/202...
November 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
See also @hypervisible.blacksky.app 's point that these are all "technologies of isolation"
techtonic.fm/episodes/202...
techtonic.fm/episodes/202...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Those who’ve never read Michael Reddy’s “The Conduit Metaphor” paper — strongly recommend it. First, it influenced Lakoff and Johnson. And second, it offers a completely different framing of language as a shared construction, not an information pipeline. LLMs don’t make sense in that framing.
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Those who’ve never read Michael Reddy’s “The Conduit Metaphor” paper — strongly recommend it. First, it influenced Lakoff and Johnson. And second, it offers a completely different framing of language as a shared construction, not an information pipeline. LLMs don’t make sense in that framing.