Well there is a decently large fraction of students who are annoyed by the images; they just are quiet about it. The extent of the vandalism was mainly just taping paper slips with messages such as “cut the slop” to the posters. It’s not too wild, so I hoped it would embolden others to resist this usage of gen ai.

Well the offending image is only one in a slide of very useful information, so sabotaging the entire device would not work.

I actually told a person at the front desk about it and that I was willing to make a meme to replace that slide (the ai image was an attempt at a cartoon/meme telling the graduating class to back up their files). School ended before admin could look at my request (or they ignored it, but the front desk person seemed enthusiastic), but the intention was to promote human made stuff over gen ai instead of annoying admin with a problem that wouldnt get a message across.

The vandalism of the poster was aggressive and didn’t promote human creativity, but at least it was a message for everyone.

Thank you; I have noticed that for some reason I tend to adjust the extremity of my action to create balance in my environments, eg if no one is attacking something, in this case gen ai, I feel the need to ramp up my own aggression. I will try to control that.

To summarise, do you think we should encourage anti gen ai sentiment and wait for it to boil over and meanwhile just observe and dont beat ourselves up over it and let social forces do the work?

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THANK YOU for actually being someone in this community proactively wanting to mobilise others against AI instead of merely complaining about it! I really hope more anti AI communities will start to shift toward this type of discussion.

Anyways, something I do to fight gen AI is at my school, I keep a constant pressure against any AI generated content whenever possible. For example, when the school puts up AI generated posters seeking middle school camp counselors, I attach aggressive messages such as “cut the slop” and the “we need to kill ai artist” meme and immediately put more on if any are removed in order to keep up the pressure. Eventually the posters are removed entirely. (The posters are still readable and retain their original utility, but instead of making the school walls uglier, they constantly serve as a warning.)

Now that I think about it I think I just threw the term “plastic” in because I thought it would give a rough area of inquiry because I read that “plastics” were base resistant.

Actually scratch that; what I was ultimately trying to find out was some examples of base resistant biological building materials, not necessarily plastics.

Apologies for being confused about terminology; I just finished my first year of chemistry

I think my classmates think it’s efficient partly because many of them ask it about stuff they didn’t pay attention to because they were yapping amongst themselves during class so they can’t even tell when the AI is pulling a fast one, they just get a nebulous and possibly correct understanding of the material which is better than nothing

I suppose a better question is how to remove AI as a lifeline for lazyboneses or take away its appeal but the former would involve dealing with authorities and I have little support on this in my school 😭

I think it depends on the extent to which an individual influences the end result. If the paper roll is pre made and the individual is merely placing it in its intended place, then that is different from carefully arranging notes and effects in a DAW.