[linotype]

I’m beyond tired of hearing people complain about AI. Just stop already. If you don’t like it, don’t use it, find a job where people don’t like it and work there. It’s exhausting how Luddite the tech community has unironically become.

[UncleMeat]

I can't "not use it" when my medical insurance sticks an AI between me and the ability to talk to a human or uses an AI to deny my insurance claims.

I can't "not use it" when my VP uses an AI to decide who to lay off in the next wave of cuts.

I can't "not use it" when my governor sets up an AI review of statewide regulation to decide what regulation to remove.

"My boss says that I have to use an LLM to program" is way way way below my worries of "society's bosses use LLMs to entrench their power and abuse labor because they are upset about the labor gains made in the post-covid era."

[jaredcwhite]

We keep complaining because Big Tech keeps shoving this unmitigated garbage down our collective throats.

When the boot is on the neck, you don't stop complaining until it has been removed. It's as simple as that.

[bubblebeard]

Yes, but you placing your neck under that boot is a free choice. I admit, sometimes a little tricky to avoid, but a free choice still. As far as I know, there is always an option but please correct me if I am wrong.

With that said I think technology overall has become increasingly worse over the years in some ways. God, do I miss a TV without an OS.

[p_v_doom]

Nah its not. You dont have a lot of free choice here, and your options are very severely biased. Its a bit like the old christian thing where you are free to choose, but if you dont choose JC you go to hell...

[sejje]

But you don't go to hell, the consequence isn't real.

So when you bring it back to big tech, you've defeated your own argument.

[weebull]

> Yes, but you placing your neck under that boot is a free choice.

Bollocks. We're not talking about going to a chat bot and asking questions. That's a free choice. It's insertion into every facet of online life is unavoidable and far more destructive.

[malfist]

I'd love to not use it. Can you tell me how to keep Android or Microsoft or Google from shoving it everywhere, raising prices for that privilege and hoovering up all my data with it?

[linotype]

I avoid those platforms already and use Linux/Mac OS instead. Android and Windows were openly hostile to user privacy before ChatGPT became publicly available.

And if Apple shoves too much AI into their products I’ll drop Mac OS too.