"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash." (Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)

Pivot to AI

Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage

iNaturalist is a website that crowdsources pictures of plants and animals to help identify species. Its tagline is “A Community for Naturalists.�...

I have this idea of building a "Luddite Library". A set of information, tools and processes to harness luddite thinking when analyzing technological developments and "innovation". Something that interested parties could use to understand that there might be a different way to think about what tech is/should be/can be/mustn't be for us. Thin for example sets of questions to use to analyze a new thing being pushed on you and similar tools. I'm thinking about applying for grants to fund this. If anyone has an idea where to propose this, I'd be grateful for a message to: tante+ludditelibrary@tante.cc

Teaching people how to use LLMs is not "upskilling", it's the opposite.