Mastodawn

So, condemning everyone who uses AI is the new purity test for some bubbles now. And it this binary approach makes me sad and scared.

I have seen so many of these rules to define in-groups. You are eating animal products? How can you, killing the climate. You are not using the exact expected set of content warnings? How can you be so ignorant. You are shaving your legs as a woman? How antifeminist of you. You are using a car? How can you justify all the bad impact of this.

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Sophie Mar 14

Don’t get me wrong, I have quite radical positions about many of these topics. Including the use of AI.

But I’m also part of disability communities where people rely on AI for medical help and even emotional support, knowing very well that these are symptoms of a broken medical system and society.

I have seen too often, that purity test are hitting the most marginalized, which are literally fighting for their survival.

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Victoria🏳️‍⚧️Mar 14

@sophie also, they're not helping to get more people on board with the idea. In fact they're doing the opposite

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☃️karolherbst☃️

@tragivictoria @sophie yeah.. and I can stress this enough, if you have two sides like here, one is saying "look those tools are helping me so much and they solve those issues! it's great" vs "you are absolutely human scum for using it, I don't care if it helps anybody", I'd argue most reasonable people will listen to the former just because and any ethical concerns voiced will be read as "you just hate it and now make stuff up, because I don't hate it"