Question for people who choose not to use generative AI for ethical reasons: Do you make that choice despite accepting the growing evidence that it works (at least for some tasks, e.g. coding agents working on some kinds of software)? Or do you reject it because of the ethical problems *and* a belief that it doesn't actually work?

I'm thinking that principled rejection of generative AI might have to be the former kind, *despite* evidence that it works.

i don't use cloud/big-tech ai. i will probably try running something locally but haven't gotten to it yet. For me it is similar to not hosting my passwords at apple, not using a youtube account, using a small email host, .. all of this is more work than using the bigtech solutions, but i still do it
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