@lina I think half the problem really is that a lot of the Internet has got addicted to being angry at the state of the world, so they're actively looking for things to be angry about so they can portray that righteous anger.

This interacts *extremely poorly* with the fact that (as you say) on Bluesky and *ESPECIALLY* on Mastodon the "discourse" is *extremely* receptive to anti-AI stuff so "I hate AI, share if you agree!" stuff gets boosted more. There is a very narrow band of "acceptable" opinions on here and if you post stuff that validates them you get attention. Given how difficult it is to get attention on Mastodon to begin with, it's a vicious circle.

Honestly I echo what the post you quoted said, and it's part of why I reactivated my Bluesky, because at least I get the impression that people on Bluesky care about *something else in the entire world* other than tech sucking and the world being doomed.

@j0ebaldw1n Yup. Like, I posted about AI recently, but that's because I was replying to a specific situation I'm personally passionate about and I even ran a test personally to see the status quo. I don't go around posting "AI sucks" every chance I get or boosting that discourse. It's exhausting. And indeed as someone with friends who use AI, I value the health of my social circle more than that and I know cutting people off (or worse, putting them on public blast for it) is not going to do me any favors or meaningfully counter the proliferation of AI use.

I did get someone to switch from ChatGPT to Claude, because if they're going to use AI, I'd rather they use the one that doesn't have an increasingly publicly psychopathic CEO who took the first chance to become best buddies with the military industrial complex. Things aren't black and white.