Mastodawn

I'm not using any LLM or "AI" for anything that I write or draw. Never had, and never will.

I'm making this choice because:

• This technology was built by unethically stealing the hard work of millions without any consent or compensation.

• This technology has and is still constantly scraping data, including personal data, from people without their knowledge or consent, in complete disregard of the privacy laws we have to protect us.

• This technology unnecessarily uses vast amounts of energy in a world where using more energy sadly usually means more pollution.

• This technology is working on devaluating labor in order to enrich even more the already rich, aggravating poverty everywhere.

• This technology is misleadingly being sold as a solution to problems it cannot solve.

• This technology is supercharging disinformation and manipulation online, centralizing an incredible power of influence in the hands of a few controlling billionaires.

• This technology is increasingly being used by authoritarian governments in order to surveil and control the people.

• This technology atrophies our creativity and capability to think, as well as harming our social relationships.

• This technology makes my writing voice feel flat and boring. I'd rather learn to live with my human tipos.

• This technology...

#NoAI

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Rahul Setrakian Feb 22

@Em0nM4stodon I agree with everything you mentioned in your post, but LLMs are here to stay. I mean, if I recall correctly, they're investing trillions of dollars in them. Besides that, I asked my friends in IT about LLM use. Love it or hate it, they're actively encouraging its use, even in security. My friend told me they're considering agent deployment to automate many security tasks.

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derptron

@rahulsetrakian @Em0nM4stodon Yeah. It's being forced into everything to justify and puff up the investment.

Microsoft jams AI into every product they sell and now every product they sell is AI profit. See?

Why do the ones who don't have business in AI hop on board? Get talked into the shit by their rich buddies. VCs and shit are all up in AI. Anything they invest in AI has to be jammed into it so that AI profit goes up.

It's an investment bubble. People are catching on though.