LLMs Democratize Extraction and Scale Malice

In a post a few months ago, Tante wrote that "'AI' exists to disenfranchise labor," and earlier today, Coyote posted a short essay on what data ownership truly means for the IndieWeb when we're subject to genAI scrapers, extractors, and bad-faith actors. On a similar note, maybe your inbox has recently been flooded by iLands genAI agents, as Gordon and cleberg have recently written about. Or maybe you're an administrator for a Mastodon instance that's been flooded with users who turn out to be AI agents. And this is happening at the same time that Anthropic researchers warn AI could cause human extinction by 2030. This is happening at the same time that Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, announces that Artificial General Intelligence has arrived. Which, I'm sure, has nothing to do with him running the only company that's been profitable due to genAI. Hm. This post began as a response to Coyote's short essay, about how we need "personal control" and an "assertion of boundaries" for our data.…