I’m not going to criticize folks who refuse to use genAI because of the exploitative labor conditions. Like your moral red lines are yours.

But saying other people are evil or fools for not doing so just makes you look ignorant. The technology isn’t why people are being exploited and there is almost nothing you use or enjoy that doesn’t have unbearable depths of human suffering associated with its production. That’s not inevitable, but it’s also not because it’s an llm, or food, or a book, or a soft tshirt, or your air conditioner, or a comfortable chair. Foregoing those things won’t make a damn bit of difference to anything and acting like it will distracts from the actual fight we should be having.