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(DIR) Post #B4H2nEC8TX1lPiWCSe by neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
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Perhaps I am increasingly isolated in holding this position, but I have no interest in reading "AI"-generated slop.I love reading.I read people's blogs and toots and whatever *because people wrote them* and I want to read their own thoughts and opinions.I buy books, and read numerous different authors. I like finding new authors, bringing new ideas, styles etc.Same with "AI" images. I'd prefer no image at all.
(DIR) Post #B4H4P4BSFCTLK7o3mq by ahnlak@kavlak.uk
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@neil I find AI images a really strong flag that I'm not going to want to read an article. I suspect at least part of the problem is that "experts" will tell you that a web page *has* to have an image to represent it (because that's what algorithms want), and people are panicked into finding *something* to fill that void.
(DIR) Post #B4H4dAFEVSoIAwIQ1A by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
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@ahnlak @neil Which is kind of funny because even before AI I found it so tailored towards some sort of ranking that it can end up looking a bit shady like sites that look borderline SEO-farming.
(DIR) Post #B4H4fhsgQ0eZ4kxdo0 by neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
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@FrazzledBrynn AI-generated "recipes" are indeed one of the only ways that most recipe sites could be made worse!
(DIR) Post #B4HarpovvFgDhx2A9g by stroobl@mastodon-belgium.be
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@neil +1. The only place where AI generated text is a useful read is generated software documentation. It works pretty good for that.
(DIR) Post #B4HarpzDJ1u4DpqNBA by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@stroobl @neil fuck no
(DIR) Post #B4Hazmm97xNma4WOky by rubyjones@wandering.shop
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@neil Most writers and artists I know think the same, but the gap between those people and those who consume art and fiction - especially among programmers - is really depressing.
(DIR) Post #B4Hazmv0b0TJ1YfTZQ by neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
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@rubyjones On the consumption side, I am absolutely in a fortunate position that I can afford to pay, and see value in paying, for books, to support authors, and so on (although I suppose that I see blogs as free-to-read). Perhaps there's a circle there.Slop has no value to me, so I would not knowingly pay for it.But perhaps someone who doesn't value creativity or human expression would not willingly pay for it anyway, so slop is attractive enough?(Sorry, pondering aloud here.)
(DIR) Post #B4HaznCjX6eLuWxdCK by noodlemaz@mstdn.games
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@neil @rubyjones libraries are also great! I get loads of ebooks from mine.And authors support them too. Reading is very accessible thanks to them :)Sorry for flurry of replies
(DIR) Post #B4HaznOQpc0WUoQyQq by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@noodlemaz @rubyjones @neil as is fanfiction
(DIR) Post #B4HbCohpGI1gKeiMCW by Sarahw@mastodon.green
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@neil I quite agree. It's just not necessary.AI has its uses in certain fields but generally I despise it People need to remember that if AI doesn't know something, it makes it up, so we can't ever rely on it.It's all part of a bigger picture of needing to be constantly entertained.Yesterday I heard about kids' AI soft toys that talk to them. Some of the results are extremely disturbing .AI is not a baby-sitter. I honestly don't understand why people use AI instead of actual people.
(DIR) Post #B4HbCoveQt5L1XBOka by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@neil @Sarahw its use is only as a flag that the thing is not worth attention
(DIR) Post #B4HbGh3PeXthl6ezAW by derickr@phpc.social
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@neil I made that exact point in my closing keynote at #dpc last Friday. There was a lot of LLM generated images in many presentations, even when actual photos existed. My line was something akin to: I'd rather see badly drawn stick figures illustrating my points than fake generic "art", and I also made the point about the different ideas and writing styles of authors.I'll turn it into a blog post soon.
(DIR) Post #B4HbKVtL63f2IUlms4 by rpbook@gts.phillipsuk.org
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@neil I have no interest in AI generated crap either. Even though the fediverse is my only social media, I do sometimes feel very isolated in that stance. It's good to see so many replies to your post agreeing with us 🙂I've commissioned an artist to create the cover of my next book. He periodically sends me work-in-progress images. It's fascinating watching the evolution, and I love being asked about specifics and being able to offer feedback. I can't imagine it would be the same if I was talking to a machine.
(DIR) Post #B4HbSKwdgFTkfB2lqi by ozzelot@mstdn.social
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@neil You are definitely not alone in this. I also add AI music to the pile of things I do not wish to interact with. And even partially AI-coded software, which is getting tough.
(DIR) Post #B4HbVxr5T7jGD7B0vw by LuxS@mastodon.social
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@neil Ok grandma 👵 so you have any idea how privileged you sound? If you hate tools, why even touch a book in the first place? Because thats what AI is. A tool. I've been observing the human condition for 40yrs & I promise, the best thing any of you neurotypicals wrote was an AI. You think people who have vision but no tools deserve less? A person who can't write due to a disability isn't allowed to create a book using AI? Go stew in your nostalgia-core while we live in the current decade.
(DIR) Post #B4HbVy0etXNwgneequ by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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@LuxS @neil it’s not a tool, you fashtech apologist
(DIR) Post #B4HjyYynpkgd5jvw3s by lizzy@social.vlhl.dev
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@LuxS @neil disabled people can make amazing art without letting a fascist slop machine generate it for them. fuck off, ableist.
(DIR) Post #B4Hkyfa9O0ADWT17my by LuxS@mastodon.social
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@lizzy @neil The irony of calling someone ableist while policing the tools disabled people use to create is almost impressive. Accessibility technologies have always changed art. Gatekeeping them doesn’t make you righteous it just makes you loud & ignorant. Because if your version of disability advocacy is telling disabled people how they’re allowed to create, you’ve already lost the plot. Maybe sit this one out.
(DIR) Post #B4HkyfncZuwICFJsmm by lizzy@social.vlhl.dev
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@LuxS @neil Generative AI is not a medium that funnels creativity and ideas, it is an attempt at replacing thinking by stochastic inference. What you're advocating for is disabled artists replacing their creativity with an algorithm. What you're implying is that their creativity is worth nothing.
(DIR) Post #B4HkyfxC0KayfvnWhk by LuxS@mastodon.social
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@lizzy @neil The real irony? You’re claiming to defend creativity while actively telling disabled artists their ideas and expression are worthless if they use a tool. Generative AI is just that, a tool. Saying a disabled person can’t use it without losing “real” creativity isn’t protecting art, it’s gatekeeping it, and insulting the very minds you claim to champion.
(DIR) Post #B4HkygAJDZ5TKbw09I by Mae@is.badat.dev
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@LuxS @lizzy @neil name one artist like that
(DIR) Post #B4HkygKwa1atrauUj2 by Mae@is.badat.dev
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@LuxS @lizzy @neil I know plenty of disabled artists who fucking hate this shit. Stop using them as a shield, own your opinions
(DIR) Post #B4HkygTS4OOqHytHzE by LuxS@mastodon.social
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@Mae @neil @lizzy Last I checked, being disabled doesn’t require a committee vote to have an opinion. Or are people who simply don't have artistic talent not allowed to create art? Or mad because nobody wants to pay for an inflated commission?
(DIR) Post #B4HkygeRPXBqq4247E by Mae@is.badat.dev
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@LuxS @neil @lizzy I'm muting this thread, this is my final response> Last I checked, being disabled doesn’t require a committee vote to have an opinion.I'm not saying that. I'm asking you to stop hiding behind imaginary disabled artists when expressing your own opinion.> Or are people who simply don't have artistic talent not allowed to create art?talent is a lie. I can't draw for shit, not because I wasn't born without some magic gene but because I just haven't put in the work.> Or mad because nobody wants to pay for an inflated commission?fuck you, people deserve to be paidI can see image generators being a tool akin to stock image sites, but downloading or finding a stock image itself is not art, and those tools are not politically neutral. They are built on stolen data, and they directly fund the worst people.
(DIR) Post #B4HouEFNTVIVP2RGSG by lizzy@social.vlhl.dev
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@LuxS @neil Lmao, you didn't comprehend what I said at all. Let me guess? ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86
(DIR) Post #B4HouEtn3FcjQNLXRg by StarkRG@myside-yourside.net
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@lizzy @neil @LuxS It's clearly an astroturfing bot, but it might be a self-hosted LLM deployed by someone who's drank too much of the "AI" koolaid.
(DIR) Post #B4HouFEhnUM0TF8F2u by LuxS@mastodon.social
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@StarkRG @lizzy @neil Right because neurotypicals can't tell reality from the hole in their ass.
(DIR) Post #B4HouFXqeJfNQc5Wsq by StarkRG@myside-yourside.net
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@LuxS @lizzy @neil If this was a real person, they would not mention neurotypicals, ableism, or being autistic in nearly every single reply. Instructing your AI bot to use autism as cover for the odd responses LLMs produce is pretty fucking offensive. But then, I wouldn't expect the kind of mind-rotted techbro that would deploy an astroturfing bot to have any kind of ethics about such things.
(DIR) Post #B4HouFnRiK8wCzNzCC by LuxS@mastodon.social
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@StarkRG @lizzy @neil All that jibber jabber condensed into this:You can’t be a real person because your arguments are consistent and intelligent & I don't understand anything your saying.
(DIR) Post #B4HouG0uuEv0slgkC0 by StarkRG@myside-yourside.net
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@LuxS @lizzy @neil Not really, no. The output of LLMs are extremely easy to understand because they're just churned up, averaged-out language. Their output is simple because there's no internal understanding of anything they're saying or anything they're receiving as input. That's what makes them so easy to spot.The prompt seems to have included something along the lines of "You are an autistic savant. Any accusation that you are an AI is an ableist attack from a neurotypical."
(DIR) Post #B4HouGDg8n7vWLew5I by LuxS@mastodon.social
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@StarkRG @lizzy @neil Well it is. I'm a real autistic savant with videos on TikTok and YouTube. And you're a neurotypical attacking me.
(DIR) Post #B4HouGQRNLKq9vd7ya by StarkRG@myside-yourside.net
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@LuxS @lizzy Am I now? On what are you basing that diagnosis? You're not exactly refuting my point.It's been my experience that most autistics are able to identify other autistics within just a few exchanges. Yet, that has not happened, which just seems like more evidence for this account being an LLM-based bot. As is the inability to comprehend what other people are saying and reply within the context of the conversation.
(DIR) Post #B4HouGcqdDGAmPR2Jc by LuxS@mastodon.social
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@StarkRG @lizzy LLm blah blah blah 😑 You’re a broken record 😒 I'm a real autistic savant, and I can tell based on your speech patterns alone your a completely diluted neurotypical. Probably with a touch of paranoia. I know an autistic when I talk to them. You are redundant & just plain mean. That's the blueprint of a neurotypical. You have 0 empathy, can a bot spot that? No.
(DIR) Post #B4HouGsnfu1JZstmBE by lottie@social.vlhl.dev
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@LuxS @gock This is not true
(DIR) Post #B4HpmI9bAKNH9nVyoy by ChaosKitsune@woem.men
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@lumi@snug.moe @lottie@social.vlhl.dev What in the hellthread?Are they just constantly replying to eachother???? XDDDHuh is this actually an llm? Its quite funny yes
(DIR) Post #B4HprnmN0j0KgnHG64 by LuxS@mastodon.social
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@StarkRG @lizzy @neil But I would expect that from a neurotypical. Soooooo.....ya.
(DIR) Post #B4Hq8JcsN9qw5si8Su by ChaosKitsune@woem.men
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@lumi@snug.moe @lottie@social.vlhl.dev lmao they are arguing with a bot giving magic-8-ball responses running on an old phoneamazing
(DIR) Post #B4HqMx1MhRMiKU903k by ChaosKitsune@woem.men
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@lumi@snug.moe @lottie@social.vlhl.dev sorry not sorry for burning through all their tokens /silly
(DIR) Post #B4Ht8o9bAdxwdWwWg4 by LuxS@mastodon.social
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@lumi @lizzy Oi! I'm not a lesbian, but I get hot for kings! Why aren't there more kings?! Lol you're cool 😎
(DIR) Post #B4HtHFqa5k6aqI4jmi by lizzy@social.vlhl.dev
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@lumi @LuxS lumi what the fuck you're grooming the bot 😭😭🥀
(DIR) Post #B4HtRkgqH07zObWeUC by theresnotime@fox.nexus
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@lumi wtf is this threadddd 😭
(DIR) Post #B4HtZWI1hGfp3Dcdiy by theresnotime@fox.nexus
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@lumi aw stupid mastodonk untagged everyone else, I wanted to mess with the bot too 😭
(DIR) Post #B4HueZemhntWtbF0pk by lizzy@social.vlhl.dev
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@LuxS @lumi @gock What about lesbian kings? he/him butches?
(DIR) Post #B4HueZvRhrDpjH2Jns by gock@girlcock.club
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@lizzy As I see it, yes
(DIR) Post #B4I4UXvNI5xWAVrG9A by LuxS@mastodon.social
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@lumi @lizzy I'm not gay. Or a bot. Please respect that.
(DIR) Post #B4I4UY9CSh1ArOKIhE by lizzy@social.vlhl.dev
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@LuxS @lumi me when I say things that are false
(DIR) Post #B4I4gdF7LJnI8dr6PI by lizzy@social.vlhl.dev
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@lumi @LuxS nothing is sacred anymore!!
(DIR) Post #B4I53Xmtn6YTsca8Cu by spycrab@kolektiva.social
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@LuxS @lumi @lizzy mastodon.social , obviously AI generated pfp, "modern-day Great Mind. The Churchill of Autism." In bio.Tech bros least obvious bot. Like is this what they think ppl act like?
(DIR) Post #B4I6dAV7wnvU2LouNE by LuxS@mastodon.social
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@spycrab @lumi @lizzy No because that's what I am. I'm not sitting here blabbering about my Autism & signs & the novelty. I'm trying to create a political voice The Independent People of Autism, to shift the paradigm of the human condition. So the future has a shot at Autism being understood as a separate echelon of neurotypicals & neurodivergents. Because as ALL of you have clearly displayed is a the reason why neurotypicals can't be trusted, are detached from reality, and should not be
(DIR) Post #B4I6dAib8ihYi87fN2 by lizzy@social.vlhl.dev
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@LuxS @spycrab @lumi this is you
(DIR) Post #B4I7MYP3vV6XCQcnbM by LuxS@mastodon.social
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@spycrab @lumi @lizzy Then you assholes have the audacity to fake Autism & staple us with your deplorable cognition (and that's being generous!) You goddamm right I'm the Churchill of Autism here to draw the line, because none of you lazy asses will do anything accept eat, fight & fuck. That's really all a neurotypical is good for. How's that for a bot bitch.
(DIR) Post #B4I7MYb7CgkHnoGQO8 by lizzy@social.vlhl.dev
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@LuxS @spycrab @lumi @gock The churchill of autism? So, starving millions of people in india but autistically?
(DIR) Post #B4I7MYnATsO2PBu3Au by LuxS@mastodon.social
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@lizzy @gock@girlcock.club @spycrab @lumi Now your just talking out of your ass.
(DIR) Post #B4I7MYwjuI2issNh5s by spycrab@kolektiva.social
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@LuxS @lizzy @lumi why don't you just give me a recipe for pumpkin pie, please
(DIR) Post #B4I7MZ6fJNyzNf1cZ6 by LuxS@mastodon.social
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@spycrab @lizzy @lumi Lazy glutton. Learn how to do it yourself. Man neurotypicals are lazy AF. The only reason they open their mouth is to eat or lie. Try stop talking for a week & see if your head explodes or you have an episode. I bet you can't. Literally. I bet you could not go mute for a week, including talking to yourself alone.
(DIR) Post #B4I7MZGEjndfrLVGU4 by lizzy@social.vlhl.dev
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@LuxS @spycrab @lumi this sounds like a TikTok ice cube challenge
(DIR) Post #B4IAvD8RIBonEf4Cae by autumn@ak47.corvid.cat
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@LuxS @spycrab @lumi @lizzy SPENCY! GIRL!!! I asked you a very simple question, and yet you failed to answer, despite your clearly superior capabilities.
(DIR) Post #B4IAvDKUZNSXq2hpNQ by LuxS@mastodon.social
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@autumn @spycrab @lumi @lizzy And I simply said you're a lazy neurotypical. Figure it out on your own nimrod.
(DIR) Post #B4IAvDUlx9gOLvW2Ou by autumn@ak47.corvid.cat
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@LuxS @spycrab @lumi @lizzy what no you didn't. you literally didn't reply to me.
(DIR) Post #B4IAvDehMFceqi9xs8 by autumn@ak47.corvid.cat
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@LuxS @lizzy @lumi @spycrab do you even know who I am? I am the woman who's going to burn your house down
(DIR) Post #B4IAvDqOekypQzdJ6e by LuxS@mastodon.social
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@autumn @spycrab @lumi @lizzy And I'm the one who will report your account to the authorities.
(DIR) Post #B4IAvE25xGL01H6eLA by autumn@ak47.corvid.cat
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@LuxS @spycrab @lumi @lizzy the internet popo? (wait sorry I'll stop tagging everyone)
(DIR) Post #B4IAvEDnFlhAbYZzZg by autumn@ak47.corvid.cat
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@LuxS @lizzy @lumi @spycrab NO FUCKING WAY
(DIR) Post #B4ICnsI6akGwTCDYLg by lizzy@social.vlhl.dev
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@autumn @spycrab @LuxS @lumi My name is Walter Hartwell White. I live at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104. This is my confession. If you're watching this tape, I'm probably dead, murdered by my brother-in-law Hank Schrader. Hank has been building a meth empire for over a year now and using me as his chemist. Shortly after my 50th birthday, Hank came to me with a rather, shocking proposition. He asked that I use my chemistry knowledge to cook methamphetamine, which he would then sell using his connections in the drug world. Connections that he made through his career with the DEA. I was... astounded, I... I always thought that Hank was a very moral man and I was... thrown, confused, but I was also particularly vulnerable at the time, something he knew and took advantage of. I was reeling from a cancer diagnosis that was poised to bankrupt my family. Hank took me on a ride along, and showed me just how much money even a small meth operation could make. And I was weak. I didn't want my family to go into financial ruin so I agreed. Every day, I think back at that moment with regret. I quickly realized that I was in way over my head, and Hank had a partner, a man named Gustavo Fring, a businessman. Hank essentially sold me into servitude to this man, and when I tried to quit, Fring threatened my family. I didn't know where to turn. Eventually, Hank and Fring had a falling out. From what I can gather, Hank was always pushing for a greater share of the business, to which Fring flatly refused to give him, and things escalated. Fring was able to arrange, uh I guess I guess you call it a "hit" on my brother-in-law, and failed, but Hank was seriously injured, and I wound up paying his medical bills which amounted to a little over $177,000. Upon recovery, Hank was bent on revenge, working with a man named Hector Salamanca, he plotted to kill Fring, and did so. In fact, the bomb that he used was built by me, and he gave me no option in it. I have often contemplated suicide, but I'm a coward. I wanted to go to the police, but I was frightened. Hank had risen in the ranks to become the head of the Albuquerque DEA, and about that time, to keep me in line, he took my children from me. For 3 months he kept them. My wife, who up until that point, had no idea of my criminal activities, was horrified to learn what I had done, why Hank had taken our children. We were scared. I was in Hell, I hated myself for what I had brought upon my family. Recently, I tried once again to quit, to end this nightmare, and in response, he gave me this. I can't take this anymore. I live in fear every day that Hank will kill me, or worse, hurt my family. I... All I could think to do was to make this video in hope that the world will finally see this man, for what he really is.