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  It annoys me a lot that my brain has recently been overwhelmed and captured by anti-AI advocacy and anger, while I already had so many more important and interesting things to do, plan and think about -- not least do and manage research that makes a little difference to the living world. I really feel stripped of my freedom by the Big Tech bastards and their enablers, and I hate this because it means they are winning by making everything on Earth about themselves at the moment. It's reall...

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  Day after day we learn about new institutionalized malpractices of bigtech AI companies, so much that I now imagine openAI as some kind of large US university or multidisciplinary research institute like mine, except that instead of traditional departments and buildings like maths, physics, biology, computer science, library, or a campus restaurant they have a "perfide doom-marketing building", a "mathematical plagiarism institute", a "copyright infringement and property...

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  #Introduction Hello fediverse, I'm an interdisciplinary theoretical and numerical physicist working at #CNRS and newly affiliated with the SETE in Moulis, Ariège, France, a cutting-edge experimental and theoretical ecology lab researching the impacts of global anthropogenic changes on biodiversity and ecosystems. For 20+ years before, I was an astrophysicist working at the large Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie IRAP in Toulouse . In 2023, deeply concerned by the...