A speaker asked us to put our hands up if we've never used an AI coding assistant (data science meet-up last night).
I was the only one in a whole room.
I guess I'm an "AI vegetarian" π
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I went to challenge my own scepticism. I remain very unconvinced - especially around the wider human effects of deskilling and erosion of care for humans-in/on-the-loop.
Terminology proposal: AI vegetarian.
Or, if you will, AI vegan.
Think about it. It's a metaphor that almost everyone already knows: you've consciously chosen, for one reason or another, to abstain from consuming something in a particular category, or products containing it. Other people may make their own decision, but are expected to respect and (to the best of their ability) accomodate yours.
Similarly, it shouldn't be weird to ask something like "is there AI in this?" before reading text β the same way someone might ask "is there meat in this?" before eating a particular food item β and there should be a very strong social norm of always marking material created using (or based on material using) generative AI.
This is probably too much to ask, but at least it's worth a try.
Tariq
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