Eric McCorkleFeb 3

Something snapped into place in my mind. There is an anti-AI position that has absolutely nothing to do with luddism, or any other anti-tech position.

AI is cognitive suburbanization.

Think about it. Architecting everything so that I can't do even the most basic thing without gratuitously using a big, bloated, planet-destroying energy hog- one that *in theory* saves time, but actually just wastes it. Reducing all my options to the same generic, regurgitated, cookie cutter slop.

#AI #tech

Show threadNeel
@emc2 my dad does everything using ChatGPT to the extent that's he's proud of it. He even asks me to use it.

He even wanted to gift me Claude Code, saying "amazing apps" were built with it.
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Show threadEric McCorkleFeb 4

@blackbird someone I know kept trying to push me to use Google's AI.

I finally started saying "fine, I accept gemini as my personal lord and savior" everytime he starts up. (He's fairly hard line skeptic) That seems to have worked.

Show threadNeelFeb 4
@emc2 for me I used to only use Google maps for navigating NYC.

More recently I curbed its use for certain destinations I frequent and just use myself.

No regrets.